TEACHING POETRY IN YOUR HOMESCHOOL WITH TEA & POETRY DAYS

<p>When you study a poem, you are learning how to extract information from a <em>different </em>kind of text. Analyzing poetry has so many benefits: not only verbal skills, but also memory, writing, imagination, and vocabulary. &nbsp;All it takes is <strong>pleasant exposure to poetry</strong> to gain these benefits. Just read, enjoy, recite, and memorize poems to learn language arts the natural way. Get inspired by DeeDee and Ximena as they reveal how they have poetry and tea days to teach poetry in their homeschool.</p> <p>Download a free poetry analysis guide: https://www.chipsnsalsahomeschooling.com/poetryguide</p> <p><strong>QUOTABLES</strong></p> <p>Paul Howard, the illustrator of <a href="https://www.bookshark.com/classic-poetry"><em>Classic Poetry: An Illustrated Collection</em></a>, says, "The book taught me that poetry is about life and that life is in itself poetry."</p> <p>Ximena: "I didn't really appreciate poetry as much, even after all those high school poems I needed to analyze, until we started incorporating it in our homeschool."</p> <p><strong>TIMESTAMPS</strong></p> <p>03:32 What is poetry analysis?</p> <p>04:18 How Ximena's high school experience with poetry led her to bring poetry to her homeschool.</p> <p>04:53 Benefits of analyzing poetry: verbal skills, memory, reading, writing, comprehension. Plus learning new cultures if your poetry is from authors all over the world. Poetry sparks your imagination.</p> <p>06:13 Teaching poetry is another way to naturally teach language arts so that the skills, vocabulary, etc. seep into your child's use of language without forced worksheets or exercises.</p> <p>06:50 Poetry is therapeutic to both the writer and the reader. A poem can become an outlet for the emotions and energy inside you.</p> <p>07:06 DeeDee's son, unprompted by any school assignment, wrote a poem to express his feelings. Ximena says, "And this [poem] is not anything that we could have really taught in a lesson. It's the fruit of just many years of enjoying poetry."</p> <p>07:32 Analy