Thursday, January 28, 2016

Poetry Out Loud - Days 3 & 4

On Wednesday (1st) / Thursday (6th and 8th) we spent most of the day practicing reading our poems out loud in pairs, rotating through different partners.
We used two different methods of feedback: Pointing (identifying key words / phrases) and Sayback (what you hear the poem saying).

On Thursday (1st) / Friday (6th and 8th) we focused on some different ways of reciting our poems.

Here are links to the video examples I showed in class:



If you are looking for some tips on reciting your poem, and wondering how it will be scored, here is a description of that from the Poetry Out Loud website: