#Read4Fun Archive
Upbeat, ignited chat designed to inspire educators to #Read4Fun! 1st & 3rd Sundays at 7:00-7:30 pm EST moderated by @Dr_LMR
Sunday April 17, 2016
7:00 PM EDT
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Hi everyone! Lena Marie from MA. Poetry expresses feelings and ideas thru words that can elevate thoughts. Doesn't always rhyme!
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Sean here from NC. Happy to be in the Band with all of you.
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Hi ! Connie from NY here. To me poetry has always been a bit of a struggle-like it but don't often search it out.
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Poetry is the beat of a watercolor rippling across the imagination.
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Hi Kathleen! Excited to chat tonight at !!!
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Misty here. Excited to be at with you all to talk about poetry.
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Kelly, HS librarian from Texas Not a big poetry fan but want to follow chat & see what read4fun is about I do like novels in verse
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Hey all, Haylie from CA. Poetry is a unique way to express oneself that one might not be able to do with word
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Hi Everyone! Kathy from CT grade 3! Excited to be here!
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Hi! Kimberly, Media Specialist from Daytona Beach here!
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Jennifer from FL! Literacy specialist & co-founder of and ! Excited to chat about poetry tonight!
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Welcome Kelly! is a great community w/ lots of passionate readers!
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Marlena here and excited to share about poetry! ✨
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Dana from CT. I teach 5th grade :) Love poetry! Sings and dances!
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Poetry says so much with few words... Great entry into any topic or content area.
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Hello everyone! Rizza here from Philippines poetry is the window to our soul
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Hi Misty! Thanks for being an awesome !
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Good evening . Grace, 3rd grade teacher from Texas. I love poetry. Brings out many emotions and feeds the imagination.
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Shannon/1st/WA; poetry is like breathing for me--words are delicious, beautiful, & feed my spirit. https://t.co/E0ugOxUBXr
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The window to our soul..... I like that Rizza! https://t.co/HGxtMplWKj
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Hello everyone! Rizza here from Philippines poetry is the window to our soul
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Hi Dana! Welcome! Thrilled to chat with you tonight at !!!! XOXO
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Hi Everyone! Internet connection is fickle tonight!!
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Paul from CT - 4th grade ELA/SS teacher. Happy to join, poetry is awesome.
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I love poetry! We do Friday poetry! Easy to teach author's craft in not such an overwhelming way
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Hi friends! Melissa in NJ excited about the topic of tonight!
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Hi Haylie! Beautiful put! So excited to connect with you! Welcome to !
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Hey Sean! Excited to join in tonight's chat!
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Paula from Ky. 13 yr old doing poetry in ELA. Started with The Raven.
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Woohoo! Kathy is here! Excited for with you tonight!
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thanks so much, Birthday Girl! Hope it was a great weekend for you!
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Perfect Lena! Luv your definition!
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Hi my friend!!!!! Always love chatting with you! Time for some fun!
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Love to read novels in verse, too!
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So thrilled to be here! Love chatting about all things poetry! Looking forward to learning about some new poets!
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Thanks Sean! Great weekend! Just came in from mowing the lawn-1st time of the season!!
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Used to read poetry to my terminal pts. Gave them peace.
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Glad to have you here for ! Plotting my next visit to Nashville and putting you at the top of the list.
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Thanks so much sounds like fun!
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Same here! Beautiful day here to mow and listen to music.
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Love that! Makes it more manageable to integrate poems throughout the year. Plus so fun and special! A real treat!
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Hi Rizza!!!! So thrilled you are here at ! Thanks for sharing our mission globally!
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Hi there! Hope all is well!
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You're too kind! This is truly one of my fav chats!
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A1 Grew up with Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" Album playing in my house. That was my poetry.
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A1 I had to memorize this in grade 3. I remember the part shown but only sparks of the rest of the poem. https://t.co/k9mFuBhKPw
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Hi Grace! So happy you are here with us tonight at !
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A1: Some of my favorite from childhood are Old Father William and Jabberwocky.
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I taught this to my 8th graders. So much in this poem.
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A1 "Norwegian Wood" by The Beatles and "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys were also chiidhood poetry faves.
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A1: I don't know if this counts but many of the fairy tales I remember seemed to tell their stories poetically
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Music lyrics are a great form of poetry! one can really get lost in them! https://t.co/TEgPy5wJqR
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A1 Grew up with Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" Album playing in my house. That was my poetry.
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There is a book that I use. One I used in 4th and one in 3rd ..anthology poetry friday
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A1 poetry is not big in our curriculum back then but i remember my T letting us read 'all things bright and beautiful'
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Hey ! Rosy here. I teach 5th gr in Delaware and to me poetry means telling your story
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To me, poetry means infinite possibilities.
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I love words! I copy down my fav poems/quotes in my journals...the power of words is amazing.
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A1: Had to memorize The Jabberwocky and loved it! So much fun to act out. A great lasting impression bc of the performance aspect.
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Ahhh-hadn't thought about that one in years Cathy!! Good memories!
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This is the perfect weekend for the poem too!
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Lyrics are great for poetry. I had my Ss bring in the lyrics of their fav song to start our poetry unit.
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A1: I remember Shel vividly. Loved his poems growing up. The connection bt poetry & music is also something that hooked me early.
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Anything by Shell Silverstein, I used to love his poems as a child
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Hello, Stacey from NJ. Just finished up a successful trip to Barnes and Noble.
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Love using this poem in 8th grade history re: real v. propaganda.
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That is awesome, Misty! Lyrics are a great entry point to Poetry.
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Yes, just used Sick to teach imagery and irony. Love Shel & the Ss do too.
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I totally agree! John Denver was and is my fav person because he wrote his songs like a poet.
https://t.co/ua8B0OWPAH
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Music lyrics are a great form of poetry! one can really get lost in them! https://t.co/TEgPy5wJqR
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A1 Grew up with Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" Album playing in my house. That was my poetry.
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I have no memory of poetry until high school. Ugh!
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I forget was biweekly and was here last week! What's Q1? PS I love this chat! And I love poetry! Sorry I'm late!
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My girls just started playing softball and a girl on their team is named Casey. I thought of it every time!
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I spent hours listening to his music!
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Yes, that whole album is essential! It's a suite. Incredible lyrics!
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A1: Around middle school a friend introduced me to 2Pac's "the rose that grew from concrete". Blew my mind https://t.co/8AsAcXDSmE
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Oh, that is our favorite place indeed!
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Oh, that is our favorite place indeed!
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Hi sweet friend! So excited you are here tonight at !
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A1 I'm pretty sure I can still recite word for word "Homework oh homework, I hate you you stink..." haha
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A1 I had to memorize "Twas the Night Before Christmas". Fun having to recite it in front of class.
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You are a girl after my own ❤️. My 1st graders & I are currently obsessed with him.
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Thanks! I'll look for that! I love using books by too. ❤️❤️
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I don't think I learned to appreciate it until college.
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A1 One of my favorite poems growing up and as a T is Smart by .
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Sure is! We will have to find one to visit during our upcoming road adventures.
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You're not alone, Kathy! Poetry didn't appeal to me much until HS, either! Then I was hooked!
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Yay! I'm so glad to be here and to be talking poetry! I'm obsessed with work right now!
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Hahah yes! My fifth graders LOVE that one :) A huge hit!
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I had the book Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle. Still have it but it is really worn.
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I don't remember it being "fun" like it is now!
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I'm listening to it now!!! Thanks Lynne! :-)
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There is one connected to the venue!
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Lot's of great poems by !
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A1. Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle. Dark, but my favorite. Followed by anything by Jack Prelutsky! https://t.co/16NhaT7Z81
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I don't know if it stuck with me b/c at time it seemed so "taboo" to me??? I was a "good" student you know
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A1: I also remember learning The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee
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Ha, ha...know there was a reason that I liked you.😀
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His work is extraordinary. The Crossover brought poetry into my son's world in such a powerful way!
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Laughing out loud right now Rosy!!!!
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I love reading it to my 5th graders every year too! I play it up too! :)
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I actually have no memory of books in my elementary classrooms. Good thing I don't teach that way!
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I remember liking the way it made me feel long before I ever understood any of it.
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Oh my gosh!!! This is MEANT TO BE!
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I totally forgot about that one Grace!!
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Has opened the door to whole new group of readers!
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That's our read aloud in class right now and wow. Just wow. I just got Booked too.
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Hi, late to the chat! Rachelle from Pittsburgh, teach Span & A1 never forgot Solomon Grundy,
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Me neither...I remember figuring out iambic pentameter in 8th grade, but don't remember the poem!!!
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That was my first emo poem before the term was coined. Loved it.
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Welcome Rachelle! Isn't it funny how some things stick with us like that?
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A1: Teen favs - Poe, Frost, Langston Hughes & Maya Angelou. Ultimate fav poems - Beowulf & Thanatopsis. https://t.co/aEg8jOCGnD
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ha! I know! I was a little embarrassed to even tweet it out. But...
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I'm not alone! I giggle at words, too.
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Love that dog, hate that cat and the crossover. Ss love them!
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Thank you for turning my head toward Marvin Gaye this fine day!
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A1 Don't step on the cracks ur break ur mothers back. Still haunts me
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Love Annabel Lee, I remember reading this in the sixth grade, I still love Poe...
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Absolutely! And has made me rethink how I teach poetry too. I'm simply in love with it!
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Jumping in! Loved and still love Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay
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I've never read this one before!
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So can I! Not sure how many Ts have Ss recite poems like I did growing up.
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I was kind of dark in high school; maybe that's why I like Poe so much.😀
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A1 Yes,I had to do poetry anthology proj 8th grade, TYPE poem,draw pic for each, 60 poems
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I ordered Booked via Amazon so we could start reading it aloud the day it came out.
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Ivan still recite the opening to Romeo and Juliet. Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene.
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A1: I was not the fondest of reading growing up. Poetry was always something fun - few rules and endless possibilities
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And isn't that the perfect poem for those times?
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A2 "Fiddler Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters is an all-time fave."The earth keeps some vibration going there in your heart & it's you."
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I like the way you put that Paul - few rules...endless possibilities.... https://t.co/i10EppvyMY
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A1: I was not the fondest of reading growing up. Poetry was always something fun - few rules and endless possibilities
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That is so sad! Really? I remember so many read alouds-James & Giant Peach, Sarah Plain & Tall etc
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I still have my anthology from junior high.❤️
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I had 60, still have it in a yellow binder at parents. was proud of it, drawings ok ;)
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Nope. Not a one. Not a read aloud, nothing. How sad is that?!
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That's so awesome that you still have it!
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A1: Sarah Silvia Cynthia Stout by Shel Silverstein. My grandma used to love when I read it to her!!
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I can recite the Raven, not sure how it sticks with me, also some French poems & fables from 1985 & 86
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A1 In high school the poem that stuck with me the most was the Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
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A1: absolutely I remember many poems I read years ago. I remember stumbling across Thomas Lynch's first book in HS.
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A2: "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou or anything else by her. My Ss love this poem and recite it so brilliantly and empowered.
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Love this Billy Collins poem for its overt symbolism & way it goes personal out back in to personal again: https://t.co/XzJnIJecdA
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Sarah, Plain, & Tall is like poetry to me. The way the words flow & the images that are evoked...❤️
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I loved hearing her recite her work - so engaging and hanging on each word!
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Every morning I forget how it is.
I watch the smoke mount
In great strides above the city.
I belong to no one.
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A2:This is my share for tonight.Not a big poetry girl but this seemed to fit the bill as it's about books! https://t.co/cSSvt1EcoW
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A1 Time of The Ancient Mariner by Coleridge/Iron Maiden 🎸
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Then, I remember my shoes,
How I have to put them on,
How bending over to tie them up
I will look into the earth.
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Just found this chat. Catherine, K-8 literacy specialist from CT. Love reading and writing poetry with Ss & on my own!
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I like to think of it as interesting rather than dark...I could be in denial.😛
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Some poetry has LOTS of rules; I learned to appreciate them as puzzles. ;)
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I saw that printed on a tote bag this week!
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Can do part of the Raven; always wondered if Poe would have written so brilliantly had he not been so tormented.
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I read all the dour 19th century Russian novels during that phase.
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It made me smile when I read it!
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Thats a great way to think of them - puzzles.
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I call it branching out. :)
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A2I loved reading the Fly Guy series as a mystery guest for kinder.
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Welcome Catherine! We're sharing poems we like and how poetry has impacted us
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Billy Collins is amazing! I used "Introduction to Poetry" to launch our big poetry unit.
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Oh, my--we are twisted twins.
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Very true! I think I meant that there are many different ways to tell a story through poetry, free verse haiku etc
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Introduction to Poetry is just about a must
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A2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost has always been my favorite. I tend to take the road less traveled https://t.co/bVam2zVw5V
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Reading a poem aloud to a child can have such an impact. Love having them recite as well.
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A2: Terrific question! 👌🏾Enjoying reason everyone's fav poems!
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A2 I love this poem from The Crossover b/c it reminds me of my love of teaching & my kids I teach https://t.co/x0h9UnSmE4
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Throwin this out there Not being a fan of poetry has always made me feel like I'm not very "deep" or intellectual. Anyone else?
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Can't believe chat is almost over! Thanks for joining us tonight for a celebration of poetry! Have a great evening!
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I was very proud of it, still have some hs notebooks too ;)
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This poem can spark some great discussion and debates.
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INVITATION
If you are a dreamer, come in
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, Shel silverstein Hung on my door for years..
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This is one of my favorites! I think the first one to make me really think about meaning in verse. https://t.co/vKJahGLCKW
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A2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost has always been my favorite. I tend to take the road less traveled https://t.co/bVam2zVw5V
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A2 Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is another great one I love
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Oh my gosh! I can still recite a large part of this poem. We had to memorize it!!! https://t.co/7iven55ZK4
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A2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost has always been my favorite. I tend to take the road less traveled https://t.co/bVam2zVw5V
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I think many share that feeling, Kelly! Definitely!
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A2 Also "In Flanders Fields" but I love history
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There are some poems I don't "get" so I find the ones I do! And I don't sweat it. 😉
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He has some great works too!
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Love Kay's "If I Should Have a Daughter," too. That was the first poem I ever heard of hers.
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when I was a kid a camp counselor of mine used to recite that when we were walking in the woods - it was awesome.
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I've never read this one before. thanks for sharing
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No poetry unit would be complete without Langston Hughes. A Dream Deferred...classic.
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Ditto Kelly!!! You are not alone....
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My yearbook quote... "I took the one less traveled by...and that has made all the difference"
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This is read each year at the Veterans' Day program at my school. Very moving. https://t.co/pnp83cF593
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A2 Also "In Flanders Fields" but I love history
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I agree! It's hard to talk poetry and not refer to him!
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Frost is my fav male poet!! This poem is beautiful❤️❤️❤️
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A2 I can say the poems of Pablo Neruda, but cannot say a specific one right now.
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Man if put out Booked or The Crossover 15 years ago...
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@- That just made me smile out loud! I love how books/poems can elicit so many memories.
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That is one of my favorite lines
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. time goes by way too fast! Thanks, all.
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I lived in Kansas City where the only exists and there's a exhibit of this. Powerful.
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He turned one of my 3rd graders from a good reader to an amazing one!
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None of us ever reads the same poem...and we never read the same poem twice! Infinite infinity.
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Maybe the thought is you have to find some hidden meaning. Just keep trying till you find one that makes you smile.
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My hope for Ss & poetry is that they see it as a chance to choose and enjoy favorites, not just to analyze on a test.
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You always read the best books!! Love your taste, Stacey!
