Comentarios en: The power of Shape Poetry

Por: Raquel Fernández Fernández

Raquel Fernández Fernández — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:18:51 +0000

Nice post,Loli. Shape poems are a wonderful resource when you want to review key vocabulary on a topic or when you elicit students’ prior knowledge. As you said, it engages students quickly and makes use of their visual intelligence. Glad you liked the session!

Por: Loli Casco

Loli Casco — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 10:36:39 +0000

Hi Luis, thanks for commenting

I am glad you liked the pictures that support the text, it means that I chose the good ones. For me, it is clear that this type of poetry needs to have a relevant place in our lessons, because it can be greatly motivating for our students.

Por: Loli Casco

Loli Casco — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 10:34:04 +0000

Hi Elena

I agree with you, when you say that poetry is more than beautiful words and rhyme. Shape poetry gives also a chance to children and adults who are not aware of the ‘emotional’ side of words, because it makes poetry something tangible.

Thanks for commenting!

Por: Loli Casco

Loli Casco — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:35:28 +0000

Hi Eva, and thanks for commenting
Believe it or not, it was your apple that I had in mind when I decided to write this blog entry. To be more concrete, the apple and my own feeling when I knew that we had to create. So exciting!
I am glad to see that we think the same about the possible applications of shape poetry in the Primary classroom.

Por: Luis Álvarez

Luis Álvarez — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:55:08 +0000

Hello Loli,

First of all , I want to say that I have been looking the blog and I like a lot. Then I want to answer to your question and I say yes, completly yes. In my opinion, this kind of poems you can work perfectly with students of Primary education. You can use different levels depending on the age of the students but I am sure that it could be work perfectly and it could be like a lot.
On the other hand, I like very much your poems with shapes that you have chosen to show us specially the snowman.
I know that you have a lot ideas related with this and i am sure that if you use this poems in your class it will be succesful.
Thank for your post.

Por: elena.rojo

elena.rojo — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:13:21 +0000

Hello Loli!
Today it was our turn to do our own poems with this technique “shape poems”. As you said I also think it is a good way to encourage our students to read poetry. It is a way to show them that poetry is something more than beautiful words with a rhyme. We can ask them to do a poem using this technique of almost everything. For example, I’m thinking on landscapes, favorite objects, food, seasons of the year…
I have to add that with this technique, we are not working only on producing poems but also creativity in a more visual way. In my opinion, children feel more attracted to catchy and visual things; we have to take this into account and using it as an advantage. So if this is something that can call the attention of our students to read and produce poetry, why not using it?

Por: eva.aviles

eva.aviles — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:11:14 +0000

Hello Loli! I have found your post very clear and interesting and I have chosen it to comment on because I completely agree with you.
I think you are right; using poetry with our pupils in a different way is something interesting and definitely a great resource! Pupils can feel more motivated because they are working with something visual, not only with words or sentences. Moreover, as you said in you post, we could link the content of poetry with the ‘picture’ that it is representing. Therefore, they can learn how to interpret this shape poetry.
Furthermore, the fact of working on different intelligences is very positive because not all pupils work in the same way and we should attend to diversity in our class.
Last week, when we created some shape poems in class, I felt very enthusiastic and I created an apple in order to make easier to understand the poetry, which was about ‘Snow White and the Three Stooges’. Due to this reason, I consider children can not only read these shape poems but also create or complete them. Doing that, we are fostering imagination and creativity at the same time we work on poetry, something that is essential in pupils of this age.
By and large, regarding your question; yes, I strongly feel that it can be used in schools with Primary Education pupils.
Bye!