ABSTRACT
This volume demonstrates how the social and instructional worlds that children inhabit influence their poetry writing and performances. Drawing on rich vignettes of students from different racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, it describes and analyzes the work of eight to ten-year-old U.S. students involved in a month-long poetry unit. Children Writing Poems outlines the value of a ‘poetic-functional’ approach to help children convey a poem’s meaning and mood, and expresses the need for educators to scaffold children’s oral readings and performances over time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|12 pages
Poems, Poets, Practices
Learning Through Engagement, Exploration, Mentoring and Collaboration
chapter 5|21 pages
Playing With Language
Poetic Features, Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in Children’s Poems
chapter 6|20 pages
Delighting in the Ride
Poetic Structure, Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in Children’s Poems