Comments on: Family Literacy: How to Memorize Poetry with Kids https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/ Screen-Free Activities and Books for Kids Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:38:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Nora Shine https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-425212 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:38:15 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-425212 Thank you for this post! Staying home with COVID, we have been writing verse, and plan to memorize some favorite poems. It is somehow soothing to have that mental exercise! I absolutely love your posts! Thank you,

]]> By: Amy https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-383995 Sun, 02 Sep 2018 23:16:25 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-383995 This is great - thanks. We've been learning poetry in our house. We just finished I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by Wordsworth. It's started to be less fun than for them lately, so this will help change it up a bit. ... It was also fun to find your post because I, too, am an Amy with four active young boys!

]]> By: Erica https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-350355 Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:08:08 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-350355 In reply to Amanda.

I love that! Embrace poetry!

]]> By: Amanda https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-348194 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:11:58 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-348194 This find has perfect timing as my son is about to turn 7 and has 'asked' for poetry books for his birthday! No idea where this idea came from, but I'm embracing it and so proud this was his own idea. A great list if books for us to choose from. Thank you.

]]> By: Sarah https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-326561 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 17:05:59 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-326561 I love the illustrations that come with the poetry for young people series. It leads to a discussion on what poetry invokes.

]]> By: Kathleen https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-228862 Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:52:42 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-228862 Thanks for these suggestions! We love Jack Prelutsky, especially for young kids. A few favorite poetry collections (Prelutsky and otherwise): The Random House Book of Poetry for Children; A Child's Book of Poems (Fujikawa); Poems and Prayers for the Very Young; and A.A. Milne's books When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six; Sing a Song of Popcorn.

]]> By: Erica MomandKiddo https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-100914 Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:38:02 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-100914 In reply to Ronna Mandel.

Thanks for the suggestion! I've not read Nesbitt, yet!

]]> By: Ronna Mandel https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-100755 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:48:05 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-100755 We're huge Shel Silverstein fans (my 21 year-old won't part with her books), but we also like Ken Nesbitt. Definitely worth checking out.

]]> By: Erica MomandKiddo https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-98416 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:32:44 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-98416 In reply to Janel Brown.

Shel Silverstein is great!

]]> By: Janel Brown https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/how-to-memorize-poetry-with-kids/#comment-96746 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:22:06 +0000 https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/?p=12337#comment-96746 Thanks for this list! I'll have to see if my daughter has any of these in her class library at Girls Prep. We read poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends on a regular basis, but I'm excited to see what the other books are like.

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