Poetry, Realistic Fiction, and Science Fiction and Fantasy
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What you already know about the topic |
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Without a doubt, poetry is always neglected.
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Teachers don’t feel comfortable teaching it.
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Some students enjoy writing poetry because
there are no rules.
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Most children think of poetry as always
rhyming.
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Realistic fiction stories are believable.
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There are many different categories for
science fiction.
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| · Children are very interested in the different sub genres under science fiction and tend to like the different series out there What you learned after completing the assignment |
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Children prefer reading narrative poems
because they like stories.
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The most disliked poems are haiku and free
verse.
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Most children love poems that are humorous and
include animals or familiar experiences.
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Poems should provide visual images and words
that allow children’s imagination to expand.
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They should create some kind of vision or
imagery in some kind of way.
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Sound in a poem is very important. For
example, alliteration or onomatopoeia.
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There are many awards given to poetry books.
The NCTE award began in the 1970’s and is now given every year.
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