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How do you all read poetry (to your kids)?
Do you concentrate on one author for a period of time? Do you have a list of poems you want to read?
Do you just grab the book and see what sounds good?
How often do you read poetry aloud?
Do you keep track of what poems you've read aloud?
Do your kids memorize poetry?
How much, how often?
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Jennifer
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Funny - I just read about poetry in one of Karen Andreola's Parents review magazines, last night. 
Karen suggests several ways of adding poetry study and enjoyment into our homeschools.
1. Choose poems to go with the season and seasonal changes.
2. Choose poems related to an area of study - she uses the example of studying oceans and finding poems on water/oceans/etc.
3.Choose a poet and study his/her works.
4. Just choose poems to read, study, enjoy, memorize, copy!
I must admit that number four is our usual method and we try to have some time for poetry every two weeks.
Leonie in Sydney
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Usually when I purchase a book I find a poem to go with it.Then I paperclip the poem inside the book.I read the poem to intro. the book.
I choose a poet for us to study and change every couple of weeks. Then we circle back around and the children say,"Oh, I remember that poem."
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arcornbread wrote:
Usually when I purchase a book I find a poem to go with it.Then I paperclip the poem inside the book.I read the poem to intro. the book.
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What a lovely idea!
We do poetry somewhat randomly -- Leonie's description was very similar to what we do here.
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We use Laura Berquist's suggestion in the front of "The Harp and the Laurel Wreath." We keep a poetry notebook of memorized poems. What this means for us, is that we read poems every day for fun (usually at the breakfast table, but often throughout the day). When a child hears one that he/she would like to memorize, we read that one over and over daily in addition to the others. Once it is memorized she types it up and illustrates it and adds it to her poetry notebook. Then we get to do it all over again.
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Michelle,
Love your idea. We have Laura Berquists hints for memorizing. Our problem was that we didn't necessarily get inspired by the poems plus with 6, there is only so much to be done. What usually happened was that we just got tired of the poem after a while and had only parts of the poem memorized when we dropped it.
But if we just read one poem per day and waited to memorize when one actually struck someone's fancey, I think it would work and we'd get more accomplished. Even if no one memorized, at least everyone would hear poetry on a regular basis.
I really do believe, though, that eventually someone in the family would get inspired to memorize and then with one enthused, usually a few more fall like dominoes and catch the "fever". If anyone complained of the poems selected, we have plenty of poetry books for them to find something they liked and I'd substitute.
Thank you so much for your post. You just inspired us to try again.
Janet
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Last year I followed the Ambleside poetry schedule. The poems are online so I printed them and kept them in a binder then we will read a few of them each day. We didn't memorize them just enjoyed them. They focus on one poet per term. I didn't worry about matching the poet to the grade my kids were in because a lot of the poems were new to us. I think I am going to do that again this year. My kids really liked it.
Natalia
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We check out new poetry books at the library and everyone picks one to read during teatime.
We have done memorization (through repetition, acting and for performance). Favorites get copied into copywork books.
I love poetry and read it myself and will often share a poem that strikes my fancy at breakfast or dinner, if I think it appropriate. A couple of my kids will read poetry in bed (we don't enforce bedtimes but when we need some time to ourselves -dh and I- we will suggest the kids read in bed. Poetry is a favorite choice for that time.)
What's cool is that we've read poetry for so long in our family, no one ever had an aversion to it or thought it hard or uncool. Two of my kids went to poetry readings for young people at our library and came home and wrote the most profound poetry of their short lives. 
I think poetry should be easy to access (lower shelves or on coffee tables), frequently read and shared, and treated as a natural part of life. Kids enjoy it. If you do too, it will take the same kind of place that reading novels takes in your home.
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One of the first aspects of "school" that my kids eagerly anticipate is having their very own Poetry Notebook. Each child has their (color-coordinated per kid) composition book in which they keep the poems they've memorized. We start with really easy ones for the little ones, usually the tried and true four-liners like "A birdie with a yellow bill" or "Leaves are falling everywhere". We do LOTS of Mother Goose rhymes, reinforced with "Wee Sing Nursury Rhymes". Sometimes I draw a picture to go with the poem, sometimes THEY illustrate the poem, sometimes they cut a picture out of a magazine, sometimes I xerox a picture from the poetry book (reduced size) and they color it, chanting away at the poem.
The next step, when they're older, is my writing the poem in highlighter and letting them trace the letters. Then they start out copying the title of the poem, or the author. Then, as their writing skills improve, both. Later, they start using a couple of lines of their chosen poem as copywork. The children usually continue to illustrate their poems (or color my illustrations/xeroxes) until about 4th grade...they seem to enjoy it. By about 5th grade, they usually just want to copy the poem---which I use, then, as handwriting practice, as well as memorization.
We kind of go thru spurts of poetry memorization, though I *try* to spend at least 5 minutes a day on the poetry books. We have a pretty big collection of poetry books, ranging from the well-loved "Harp and Laurel Wreath" to RLS to "Poems of Ancient Greece" to You Name It. When the children stumble on a poem they like, they can take that one on as "their" poem (mostly).
Often I steer them towards poems geared to what we're studying (like portions of "Lepanto" when we were studying the Spanish Hapsburgs, or "Pachycephalosaurus" when we tackled dinosaurs) or to the season of the year ( "Flanders Fields" or portions of Henry V for Memorial Day) and so on.
I guess it's working. As I'm typing this, my 3 yo dd is reciting Edgar Allen Poe's "El Dorado", quite unsolicited! Oops, 6 yo dd is helping her over the rough spots  , and 15 yo ds just corrected Old Mom on a mistaken verb.
Kelly in FL
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We include poetry sporadically throughout the year. I would like to make it a more frequent occurence, but the kids rarely seem enthusiastic about it. :(
Usually I try to pick a poem/book of poems tied to the general subject we're studying or to the season. Sometimes we use the poetry as copy and memory work, sometimes not. Sometimes I ask them to illustrate, sometimes not. Often we just read aloud or they read during quiet time.
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What great ideas! Thank you, all. I like the idea of a poetry notebook-I think we will start one this fall!
jennifer
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Jennifer, I just remembered that I did a poetry page on my website a while back. As usual, it is unfinished (I have a lot of reorganization on the website to do this summer  ), but I do have ideas for a "poetry party" that might be of interest:
http://charlottemason.tripod.com/poetry.html
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MacBeth's post reminded me of an effective poetry memorization incentive. Once or twice a year, our homeschool co-op has a "Poems and Pizza" party, where each participant stands up and recites a poem. Before hand, they tell us what they will recite and we print out a little program. Sometimes the little ones sing their poems, occasionally the older ones act out their poems (very humerous). At the end, big pizza party and play time. We've been doing this for years and it's always fun (and easy to coordinate).
Kelly in FL
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The Poetry and Pizza Parties reminds me of what I like to suggest in Brave Writer - teatimes where poetry is read and shared.
My kids link poetry to tea (subversive tea drinker that I am - I love teatimes and now they love poetry too!).
Just another idea.
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