This week in class we focused on poetry writing, the key features of the writing process, and strategic writers. There are numerous amounts of poetry types that we as teachers aren’t aware of. Three categories of such are free verse or unrhymed, syllable, and word count and, rhymed verse. Free verse poetry is poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme and an example of such is acrostic poetry. In this type of poetry, the first or last letter of every verse forms a word, for example, a poem about HOLIDAY. This type of poetry can be identified by the capitalized initial letter of each line. Secondly, another poetry form is syllable and word count. As it states, the poetry has a syllabic pattern and an example of such is cinquain (sin-qwain). The root word "cinq", which in French means 5, indicates that the poetry has five stanzas. The formatting for such a poem is the first line (one word) - noun, the second line (two words) - adjectives for the noun, third line (three words) - verbs associated with the noun, fourth line (fourth line) - impression of the noun and fifth line (one word) - a synonym for the noun. Lastly, the rhymed verse. This is when you can hear rhyming vowel sounds at a particular time in the poem. An example of the rhyming verse is a lymeric. This too is a five stanza poem but with an AABBCC rhyming pattern.

Below are three links with examples of

acrostic poetry: https://literarydevices.net/acrostic/

cinquain poetry: https://wordsrum.com/2020/09/cinquain-poems/#:~:text=The%20term%20cinquain%20means%20a%20stanza%20of%20five,But%20the%20original%20cinquain%20has%20a%20distinct%20pattern.

lymeric poetry : https://www.masterclass.com/articles/poetry-101-what-is-a-limerick-in-poetry-limerick-definition-with-examples#examples-of-limericks-in-poetry

In addition to poetry this week, key features of the writing process were discussed and ways to develop strategic writers. For each writing process, I will list two features that are useful for students’ development.

1.     Prewriting: consider potential audience and choose an appropriate genre (type of writing)

2.     Drafting: write rough drafts and focus on content rather than convention (what is written, not how)

3.     Revising: share drafts in revising groups and make changes to reflect comments from peers and teacher

4.     Editing: set draft aside for one or two days and correct spelling, grammar errors, punctuation, and capitalization

5.     Publishing: publish writing in appropriate form and share completed work with the appropriate audience

And, strategic writers are students who use their cognitive advancements to solve problems faced when writing. There are twelve strategies that they can use which are:

·         Elaborating – expanding ideas

·         Evaluating – reviewing and judging their work

·         Formatting – designing the layout to ensure illegibility of writing and enhancements of text

·         Generating – collecting information from resources that will help their writing process

·         Monitoring – monitor the writing process

·         Narrowing – use limited topics to make writing specific and manageable  

·         Organizing – grouping, sequencing and prioritizing ideas for writing

·         Proofreading – rereading writing to make corrects where necessary

·         Questioning – asking self-questions along the writing process

·         Rereading – reviewing writing ideas to ensure goals are being met

·         Revising – make necessary changes to writing

·         Setting goals  - set goals that should be achieved at the end of writing