Poetry-Teaching Tips
This blog offers tips and ideas for poetry-writing, literacy development and creativity nurturing. It is principally for teachers, but may also be of use to parents, carers and others.
Cinquain
This is a 5-line poem, as implied by its first four letters, i.e. cinq - French for five, as children may be interested to learn.
The poem depicts a subject in a different way on each line. There seem to be various different accounts and contradictory examples of these. Here's my usual interpretation,
accepted for anthologies:
1. Subject of poem (or synonym for) (1 word)
2. describing words (2 words)
3. doing words ending in ing (3 words)
4. description or metaphor depicting a feeling/effect it evokes (4 words)
5. one-word metaphor
Help your class think up cinquains with their favourite creepy-crawlies.
Examples coming soon.
Don't let them worry too much about keeping to the set pattern. As mentioned, there are many variations. They might like to look some up or invent their own. Besides, it's the fun of experimenting with language that is of most value.
Kate
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