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participants, said Mrs. Gangel. Further, it helps children learn to read and learn new words. She also believes that it encourages students to use their own imaginations and creativity in coming up with other ideas to continue or change the poems In addition, she said, they learn to appreciate poetry.
She suggests that in the classroom, the teacher first read the poem aloud to the students. Every student receives a copy of the poem and the teacher helps the children to read and speak the poem in unison, doing one section at a time.
Mrs. Gangel said, “Most students enjoy variation and are eager to explore the different approaches to choral reading. Choose a choral reading poem and method to match your students’ abilities and interest.” One way, she said, is the refrain approach, in which the teacher reads the verses and the class reads the chorus. Another is the antiphonal approach, where two groups read alternate lines. Solo voices is another type, where one student would read a portion of the poem aloud by himself. The hardest approach, she said, is reading in unison. “This is a complex approach because all of the students read the entire chant together, and they all must respond simultaneously to the tempo, pitch, and other variables," said Mrs. Gangel.
In the book, an activity to match a poem might be to ask the student to write a new ending, for the poem, to draw a picture illustrating it, compose sentences using alliteration, or perhaps a puzzle of some sort.
The titles of the poems reflect their whimsical nature: “Dinosaur Dance," “Friday Frog's French Fries,” and “Stowaway Stinkbug" are three.
The spiralbound book is published by The Wright Group and is available through school supply catalogs.
Mrs. Gangel said that she has been writing poems since she was in the third grade. Every Thursday she was required to bring a poem to school, chosen from a library book. She would often forget to get that poem in time, and found that it was easier for her to write her own poem and take that to class.
She is always thinking of new poems to write, and those ideas may come to her while in the shower, or while driving over the mountain to Page County . “Sometimes 1 have to pull off the side of the road,” she said, to write down her ideas.
Already she has several new poems for a possible Volume II o(Confetti.
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