Techniques

Here are some ways to add variety to the way you teach poetry, especially making use of a word processor.  They can also be useful in other aspects of English teaching, of course.  The Critiquing and Poetry Scene Investigation resources suggest ways of putting poems under the microscope in a kind of forensic manner that will appeal to quite a number of students.

Powerful Parodies         Comparing Poems

Critiquing a Poem       Critiquing Daffodils        Walking Away Poetry Scene Investigation

What can you do with a word processor?       More advanced uses of Find and Replace

Immersed Texts        Text mapping          The Objective Comment Game

To Create an interactive Word Wall            To Collapse a text into alphabetical order