March 21 Poetry Day: 3 Secrets to teach a child how to write poetry

"To learn to write poetry" - it sounds like something is wrong, and quite interesting, but to discover the interesting world of the child's rhyme, it is another matter. How to instill in children a love of poetry and teach to write your own?


Today, 21 March, celebrate World Poetry Day, which was established by UNESCO, 15 November 1999. Especially for this event, we have prepared for you step by step instructions that will help you in the game and an interesting way to teach your baby a sense of rhythm, rhyme, and to learn how to write his first poems.

Read the right books and poems

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Ideally, the book should appear in a child before the first rattle, because the ear perceiving poems and nursery rhymes, toddler learns the beauty and melody of their native language, a sense of rhythm, rhyme, Vocabulary and learns a lot new. Do not think that he does not understand anything, read will bear fruit in the future, as you will achieve the most important thing - the child will plant a love for books and poetry.

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Meet children with different verses, let it be not only the quatrains, but also poems, ballads, fables, blank verse, sonnets. Ask that like and what not, why. Choose a poem on various subjects a child to choose one genre and topic that is the soul.

Meet with the rhyme

Two or three year old child may well have to insert the missing word in the end of a line of the poem, or a stranger to guess a riddle, to which otgadka chosen to rhyme. For example:

Friendship leads only to a fox,
This animal is angry, angry.
He teeth scholk scholk yes,
Very Scary gray ...

(Wolf)
*****
That night he did not sleep,
House mice from guards,
Milk drink from a bowl,
Of course it is - ...

(Cat)
*****
Who bawled at full speed?
Surely …

(Cock)

After the child understand what rhyme, try on the way to kindergarten or during a long trip to compose a poem. Look around and invent on the fly, a line you place the baby. For example:

In the garden we go slowly
It goes a little buzzing tractor.
Waiting for our breakfast - wonderful porridge
It will be well-fed, our Masha!

If the baby is still difficult to understand what rhyme, take a familiar poem and retell it in your own words without rhymes me words in some places. For example:

Tanya crying out loud
The ball dropped into the river
Do not cry, Tanya, quieter
Do not sink the ball in the river.

Ask your child if it looks like a poem? No, right, and all because there is no rhyme. Correct the poem with the baby, to make it "right". So clearly the child will understand what rhyme and why it is needed.

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Someone once? What are the four words, of which the child must choose the superfluous, the one that does not rhyme, such as "vase, rose, thorn, the leg." Invent a variety of options and practices.

Catch rhyme. Take a ball, throw it and call the word, the child should throw the ball to you in return and answer rhyme: cat-midge; bump-and-mouse, and others. First, let it be a chain of two words, and then complicate increasing number. In this game you can play as a family, it is not only useful, but also very fun.

Burime - a poetic task when you need to write a poem on given rhymes. Rhymes for Burime should be interesting and unexpected, this activity is developing, expanding vocabulary, developing a sense of humor. For younger children, use simple rhymes, for example, baby-gaggle-box-roll.

I ran out of the forest hare.
On the lawn of a flock of birds,
He opened his box,
And got birds milking roll.

For older children, use more complex rhyme.

Acrostic. It is very interesting to do - write an acrostic poem, in which each line begins with a particular letter. If they read a row, should have a word.

Mvermillion girl
BUTbrikosy eats
Walovlivoy squirrel.
BUTx, I will not listen!

Teach your child the figurative imagination

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Express their feelings need to learn, but it can be done beautifully, figuratively. To do this, you need to pay attention to detail and be able to describe a rather complex concepts. In a playful way to ask your child sometimes feasible tasks, such as: "Draw the wind", "describe in 10 words today," "make a sound sketch of his mood."

As you may have guessed, you should start from an early age, the child gradually instilling a love of poetry and drawing him into this world. The ability to write poetry and it is very important in today's society, apart from the fact that with the help of poems can be much brighter express their feelings and emotions, a skill necessary and useful in school and college students, and adult life. So do not be lazy and get the extra half an hour to read a poem with your child and practice the rhyme.

Also you will be interested to know, some nursery rhymes and short poems like the smallest