How to read and bring poetry to children

Poetry is music and the dance of words. Through poetry, children can transmit feelings and emotions, and make their imagination and fantasy "fly". Antonio Machado said that 'singing and telling are the two functions of poetry'. The poetry is a universal language among children, makes them grow insid

Poetry is music and the dance of words. Through poetry, children can transmit feelings and emotions, and make their imagination and fantasy "fly". Antonio Machado said that 'singing and telling are the two functions of poetry'.

The poetry is a universal language among children, makes them grow inside and is an inexhaustible source that benefits their sensitivity and creativity, and helps them understand situations, passions and emotions. Poetry, with its rhythm and melody, takes the children by the hand to the essence of words.

The benefits of poetry are innumerable

Poetry offers many benefits to children:

1- Favors memory

2- Improves diction

3- Motivates expression and language

4- Awakens feelings and emotions

5- Stimulates the rhythm

When to read poetry to children

Sleeping songs or lullabies are sung words, they are poems. When parents sing the baby's lullabies, it will be easier for them to fall asleep by the intonation and pleasant sensation of the words sung. They are memories that children will wear for a long and long time. Sung poems caress the ears of babies and children, they calm them down. It is the cooing of the word and music in poetry.

Children are very receptive to poetry. For them, poetry is a magic of words, it is playing with verses. You should start reading poetry to children at the same time you start telling children stories or singing songs. It is advisable to look for a quiet moment, a time when you can not do anything else at the same time. The poetry is read silently.

Beginning at four or five years of age, children can be invited to draw what a poetry or poem suggests, to dramatize it and to start creating their own poetry. Teaching children to love poetry, is to invite them to play with the words and music that comes from them, is to discover with them a source of living words, which will be a big part of their education.

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