Classroom teaching of poetry lesson at grade 9 of the CBSE

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