Students’ filters with regard to their communication skills are often dropped when they have a puppet in front of them. A shy student can try on the role of the mighty lion, or the outgoing student might play the meek little mouse. Unique to puppetry (and theater) is that students can become someone or something other than themselves. I’ve used puppetry in many circumstances, from depicting stories from the language arts reading curriculum to original puppet shows on themes like bullying or immigration. Using puppets can help melt away trepidation for reluctant speakers. Puppetry is a useful tool for teaching speaking and communicating skills because students can use their puppets as their voices. In fact, my students have always loved writing poems and reading them aloud with two voices-which connects well with studying puppetry. You can almost imagine being in the room with Raquel’s sticky brothers! There are so many possibilities with different poetry, topics, and imaginations. You can see what wonderful playfulness occurs when children are given the freedom to play with words. My brothers are like spiderwebs walking up Spider, tarantula, cockroach, webs, sticky, Dracula In the second and third lessons, I introduced similes. Students used their word list from the first lesson to draft very short poems, then expand them in a second draft.Īctivities Two and Three: Create a simile with one of your family words. If students are struggling with words, then you can suggest they revisit the word bank or word basket. Model an example poem on the board or do one together. You can write the words on the board or have the students write them on slips of paper and place them into a basket.Īsk your students to start putting words together based on a theme (could be anything from a science project to family to emotions). You might ask them to look in a text or chapter book to find their interesting words. It can be as easy as asking the students to start writing or saying words they think are interesting. Then, it’s extremely helpful for students to first create a word bank, which may be done in several ways. You may also contact your school or local librarian for guidance.
I like the poetry of Shel Silverstein and other short poems from numerous collections. In the first lessson, it’s important to introduce students to fun poems. As a result, students can grapple more with uncovering meaning, rather than worrying whether they have something “right” or “wrong.” Reading poetry is also very attractive to English language learners (ELL’s) because the meaning of lines or poems can have multiple interpretations. Because poetry doesn’t rely on grammar and syntax in the same way that writing a book report or paragraph does, it can often feel much more welcoming to students-the rules of language usage are essentially suspended. When students write poetry, they are paying close attention to words and choosing them carefully.
Writing poetry is akin to playing with words, and all children learn from and thrive upon play. Both can help form the wings students must earn for their learning to take off. Puppetry enables students to use language orally and build confidence in their speaking and communication skills. Poetry opens the door for students to play with words and apply them to different forms of poems, such as a haiku poem.
Poetry and puppetry are two art forms that encourage use of language.
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