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Tip #21: Focus on Sounds [Poetry Tips for Teachers]

April 29, 2015 By Laura

Welcome to today’s tip in my month-long Poetry Tips for Teachers series.

Tip #21: Focus on sounds.

If a poem features repeated sounds in it, emphasize those sounds as you read it so that kids will pick up on the repetition.

In the poem below, for example, which I wrote for Ed DeCaria’s March Madness Poetry a couple of years ago, I might talk about how the long and short e sounds work. The long e has kind of a sly and evil sound that makes me think of the dragon, and, to a lesser degree, the short e words have a slightly breathy sound to them that supports the idea of breathing, sleeping, waking. So I would emphasize those two sounds as I read the poem.

Dragon Dreams

And here I am reading it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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