Exploring Poetry through Art
Help students make meaningful connections between the visual arts and poetry with the following teaching ideas from NCTE publications.
Responding to Paintings with Poetry (Classroom Notes Plus)
Students view great works of art and read poems inspired by them, then choose from a classroom gallery of art posters and books one work of art as the basis for their own poem.
The Value of Art in the English Classroom: Imagination, Making the Tacit Visible (English Journal, May 2003)
This author describes how a “foray into the world of art” provides his students with a clear language to talk about their reading and writing, ultimately transforming his classroom into a community of writers, readers, and thinkers.
Inkblots Spark Original Poetry (Classroom Notes Plus)
This lesson inspires students to create inkblot poems using an idea adapted from Dave Morice’s The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet and poetic techniques modeled by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Using Pictures to Teach Poetry (Ideas Plus Book 5)
Selected images of people and scenes are used as a way in to examining the emotions and ideas that elicit poems; students then read and discuss poems with similar themes before writing poems of their own.
Poetry Image Collage (Ideas Plus Book 5)
The image collage can be an effective tool to ease students into poetry and to help them think about poetic images.
For additional poetry resources, visit the Poetry area of the NCTE Store (http://www.ncte.org/store/books/poetry)
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