According to the NCERT, poetry is a great source of language learning since it imparts the joy of learning by experiencing the 'music of words' and students must guided to apprehend the poem through the visual, the auditory, the tactile. the intellectual. or the emotional channels, Also, poetry learning must lead to understand the suggestiveness of the images evoked through language art elements.'
The classroom session on poetry should follow the verse-wise 'teaching of the poem by following three phases of planning with a dual code chart ( see inset visuat) of Class IX book for the verse on 'Wind' by Subramania Bharati. (p, 30)
The first verse of the poem goes as follows
Wind, come softly.
Don’t break the shutters / of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw down / the books on the shelf.
There, look / what you did — / you threw them all down.
You tore the pages / of the books.
You brought rain again
Pre-active phase
Write and recite your own poetry verse
Recite your favourite verse
Ask 2-3 children to recite one verse each
Post your chart on the first verse of the text book lesson (see inset picture example) with visual icons as boarder on the classroom wall
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Interactive phase
Read out slowly each line on of the verse with your finger moving across the line
Ask a child to do the same
Recite the poem with right pronunciation and intonation
make children to echo-recite the verse
ask a child to make others echo recite and you too join in
Recite again the poem with gestures for a few words
Now write the new words on black board, Tell and write their meanings on the black board
Post-active phase
-Home work to prepare a chart on the verse
-Creating a word puzzle on any 9 words from the verse
-Ask children to write their own poems using the nine given nine words
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