Friday, June 15, 2012

Pim, Pam, Poetry!

What is one of the best ways to teach English to anyone of any age???

POETRY!

In the following document, I have several different poems and their correlating activities for usage with a beginner ESL or EFL class.  There are a few acrostic poems, several poems that allow for movement, and some just plain funny ones.  In the document, there is more than one class period with poetry from the famous Shel Silverstein. These are poems I grew up with and now they are ones I am using for my own teaching.  I used these with middle school students and they were a total hit!!!  

Here is the link.  Different poems can serve as pre/during/and post activities! The idea is to have fun with these poems.  So many different activities can be used with each one.  Haikus can be practiced and written, acrostic poems can be given and then written by each student or about other students, and students can be asked to add lines on to a particular poem!

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bz51JInE6YdaYWo4bXBtWTBlWGM



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