{"id":70901,"date":"2020-04-17T12:29:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=70901"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:36:52","slug":"gathering-ideas-for-poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/connecting-reading-and-writing\/poetry\/gathering-ideas-for-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering Ideas for Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-70902\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/notebook-308849_1280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/notebook-308849_1280.png 969w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/notebook-308849_1280-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/notebook-308849_1280-768x1014.png 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/notebook-308849_1280-775x1024.png 775w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/notebook-308849_1280-165x218.png 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/notebook-308849_1280-945x1248.png 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/notebook-308849_1280-750x991.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Connecting Reading and Writing: Poetry<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about where poets get ideas for their poems<\/li>\n<li>Begin a journal and start collecting ideas for poems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Writers get ideas for poems from many places.<br \/>\nThey read many books.<br \/>\nThey notice and think about interesting words.<br \/>\nThey observe the world around them &#8211; including people, animals and nature.<br \/>\nThey pay attention to their emotions.<\/p>\n<p>James Carter wrote a poem about where he gets ideas for poems!<br \/>\nPlease read his poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/childrens.poetryarchive.org\/poem\/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nIn the poem, James Carter explains that his ideas come from his imagination and his experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Author Joyce Sidman explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachingbooks.net\/book_reading.cgi?id=4900&amp;a=1#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how she finds ideas for poems in this recording<\/a>. She also reads two poems from her book Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night. (Press the play button on the orange media bar to start playback.)<br \/>\nJoyce Sidman explains that she learned more about the animals of the forest before she started writing poems for her book.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next several days, start to gather ideas for your own poetry writing.<\/p>\n<p>Find a way (on paper or on a computer) to record:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting words and phrases you find when you are reading<\/li>\n<li>Interesting things that you notice (e.g. a bird singing outside your home, spring flowers growing)<\/li>\n<li>Sketches of interesting things you see and imagine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also read and listen to other poems at <a href=\"https:\/\/childrens.poetryarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Children\u2019s Poetry Archive<\/a> for new ideas<\/p>\n<p>Later this month, we will use your ideas to write some poems of our own.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Opportunities:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You don\u2019t have to wait to write poetry, you can try it now! Write a poem about something important to you. Share your poem with a family member.<\/li>\n<li>Keep on reading <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/exploring-the-library-learning-commons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">books you choose every day<\/a>! When you find a good book, share a recommendation with the form <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/cAN5SJUC8eJrkit88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Book Recommendations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goals:  Learn more about where poets get ideas for their poems, Begin a journal and start collecting ideas for poems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72673,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70901","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70901\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}