Poetry Aus VELS Levels 56 Year 2014 Term

Poetry Aus. VELS Levels: 5&6 Year: 2014 Term: 3 Duration of Unit: Lessons 7 4 of 7: Learning about line breaks

Goal I understand how authors often innovate on text structures to achieve particular purposes and effects.

A. P. K. Crayon Poem by James Carter (http: //childrenspoetryarchive. org/poem/crayonpoem)

New Information Line Breaks

New Information Line Breaks It is the line and where it is broken that helps make the music and rhythm of a poem

New Information Line Breaks It is the line and where it is broken that helps make the music and rhythm of a poem You can break a line in the following ways

New Information Line Breaks It is the line and where it is broken that helps make the music and rhythm of a poem You can break a line in the following ways • According to your natural breath

New Information Line Breaks It is the line and where it is broken that helps make the music and rhythm of a poem You can break a line in the following ways • According to your natural breath • To emphasise a particular word or words

New Information Line Breaks It is the line and where it is broken that helps make the music and rhythm of a poem You can break a line in the following ways • According to your natural breath • To emphasise a particular word or words • To counter your natural breath and create tension

Application Line Break Activity 1 • Using the following line (She loved the sound of the wind in the trees. ) – divide it with line breaks in 3 different ways • Discuss how the meaning of the line changes depending on where the lines are broken

Application Line Break Activity 2 • With a partner read the poem ‘Crickets’ by Valerie Worth (Crickets talks in the tall grass all late summer long when summer is gone. The dry grass whispers alone. ) • Where does your voice naturally pause? • Make slash marks with your pen to indicate the line breaks. Try it 2 or 3 ways

Application Line Break Activity 2 • Now look at the original line breaks again – why do you think the poet wrote the poem to look, and sound, like this?

Application No line breaks Author’s version Crickets talks in the tall grass all late summer long when summer is gone. The dry grass whispers alone. Crickets Talks In the tall Grass All Late summer Long When Summer Is gone. The dry Grass Whispers Alone.

Application No line breaks Crickets talks in the tall grass all late summer long when summer is gone. The dry grass whispers alone. Author’s version

Goal Reflection Explain how can you use your knowledge of line breaks to create your own poetry?