Using poetry to support literacy and language development by Julie Cigmen. The following is a summary after reading the contents of the article, 'Using poetry to support literacy and language development by Julie Cgmen' linked below . Go to the related article! * About the Author: Julie Cigman, early years consultant, describes the joys of discovering poetry with young children Young children are constantly learning about all aspects of language: receptive and expressive. They are learning vocabulary and grammar, intonation and cadence. They are learning the kinds of language that they should use in different situations. They are learning to express emotions and ideas. They learn these immensely complex skills from adults and older children around them, who provide models and, ideally, give them time and encouragement to become articulate and confident communicators themselves. When children have extensive exposure to well-written stories and poetry from birth, the pattern of language expressed in the best of children’s literature will embed itself into children’s developing language. Poetry has both form – a rhythm, a shape and structure – and content – an expression of ideas, thoughts and feelings. When young children hear poetry read aloud and discover poetic forms they can learn to express their ideas, thoughts, and feelings. But an overemphasis on form can lock children into structure, so their ideas have to adapt to the form. Listening to poetry helps children to become fluent readers and creative writers, while writing poetry helps children learn to revise their ideas and develop a precision with language. Learning a repertoire of poems gives children and adults shared memories, a shared heritage, and shared understandings. How can we help children to become poets?
The Barbican website Can I Have a Word?2 suggests three stages in becoming a poet – listen, stimulate, and create. Stage 1: Listen Read books and poems which are strong in musicality, such as Jabberwocky, The Quangle Wangle’s Hat or Pass the Jam, Jim. As children hear poetry and stories, they learn to control language by rehearsing and imitating it in their play. This is especially valuable for children with speech and language difficulties and children learning English as an additional language (EAL), as children can echo, sing and chant words that they don’t understand yet. Stage 2: Stimulate The EYFS promotes active learning through playing and exploring (p. 7) and we know that children are most creative in their play. So we can use visual and sensory stimuli to fire children’s imagination and develop their ideas and vocabulary while they play. Stage 3: Create Poetry is a way of encapsulating an experience concisely, and enabling the reader to see the world differently by sharing the perceptions of the poet so learning to craft poetry will take many years. Poetry in the early years is all about discovering and playing with the interconnectedness between language, music, movement and art. But when children are exposed to all of these creative forms, their poetry will become more sophisticated, even at a very young age.
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Rockland Virtual Arts Festival Rockland Virtual Arts Festival Celebrating Local Arts with 100+ Visual Artists! An arts festival is a festival that can encompass a wide range of art forms including music, dance, film, fine art, literature, poetry and isn't solely focused on visual arts. I participated in the virtual art festival held from the beginning to the end of this April as a painting part. Although the event was held with Zoom due to Corona, it was a valuable time to show pictures from each location and talk about the pictures. After the event was over, I applied for the poetry section. I would like to inform you that the poems I applied for were presented below. In the field of painting, there were many opportunities to show through various types of exhibitions, but the field of poetry had never been opened to the public except for once received an award in Korea. However, I found out that the Rockland Art Festival was asking for poetry, and I thought this was a good opportunity, so I applied. It is the heart of a child folding a paper boat while waiting for his father to return home as soon as possible, missing his distant father. Thanks for the opportunity to share this little poem Below is the schedule for next year's festival. The deadline is the 15th, so we hope that interested artists will apply their work as soon as possible. The application fee is free, and you only have to pay the corresponding payment when selected. What is an artThe Flower by Chun-soo Kim The poem above is the work of Kim Chun-soo, a famous poet who gave the lyrical inspiration of Korean 21st century poets. It appears a lot on imperative exams, especially when most Korean were in high school. At the time, I was only memorizing for exam study, so I didn't know the deep meaning of "the flower" in this poem well. With another flower, there is one childhood memory associated with it. Mirabilis, native to South Africa, is grown in many Korean gardens and is common in autumn. There are 5 stamens, and the fruit is round and ripe in black but contains white powder. The children collected the powder, knowing that peeling the black seed resulted in white powder. In fact, no one taught them. I just know from my older sister and my older brother in this way. Anyway, the children collected the powder and applied it like cosmetics on their faces, looking at each other and laughing and liked it. Then, in autumn, children wanted to make a pretty bride-like face, so they collected black seeds with small hands like rabbit hands. I still remember the moist and soft touch of the white powder in that black seed. And the last memorable flower is the Impatiens balsamina. The flower language is "don't touch me." It is not clear when women used balsams to color their nails, but there seems to be a legend about a court lady who dyed balsams on their nails during the King Chungseon of Goryeo for a long time in Korea. The balsam flower is crushed with alum, tied to the nails, and dyed a day later. First of all, the red color means to defeat ghosts, so the meaning of the folk belief that balsam dye prevents all diseases is included. And there is a story that the first love succeeds if balsam water remains on the nails until the first snow comes. So the children picked the red petals, ground them well, put them on their nails, and bandaged them so that they could soak into their nails. All the flowers I liked as a child had stories, tastes, and beauty. Children discover and share little joy and fun through flowers. Salvia, Mirabilis, and Balsamina flowers were all just ordinary flowers but they were memories and happiness in the hearts of children, and vitamins that helped them endure a boring and difficult life. Like poet Kim Chun-soo's flower phrase, before the name is called, it is just a gesture. But when I gave meaning to that existence, it became someone's flower. So is the picture. Which painting is the significance to someone. Gives some vitality to life, comforts others, and reminds others of scenes you want to remember. And to them, paintings that are merely canvases become meanings, artworks, and life partners who want to live together. Reference : |
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