Pedagogical principles of using songs and poetry in the Malaysian primary school

•Age•Resources

BY RENUKA G

Age

• Suitable + appropriate = provoke interest and enjoyment

• Lower primary- straightforward/literal- Incorporation of visual and/or concrete

elements- Reasonable length

Age

• Upper primary-Symbolism-Aids moral development

Examples

• Songs-Primary Colours (Sesame Street)-Don’t throw trash on the ground (Sesame

Street)

Example of Poem

• Mum’s instructions• Brush your teeth dear,

Blow your nose,Clean your shoesAnd change your clothes!

The Little Doll ~Charles Kingsley

• I once had a sweet little doll, dears,The prettiest doll in the world;Her cheeks were so red and so white; dears,And her hair was so charmingly curled.

• But I lost my poor little doll, dears,As I played in the heath one day;And I cried for her more than a week, dears;But I never could find where she lay.

• I found my poor little doll, dears,As I played in the heath one day:Folks say she is terrible changed, dears,For her paint is all washed away,And her arm trodden off by the cows, dears,And her hair not the least bit curled:Yet for old sakes' sake she is still, dears,The prettiest doll in the world.

Resources

• A source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed

• Teaches something • How

Example of songs

• Three little birds (Bob marley)• Primary colours (Sesame Street)

Example of PoemsLittle Things ~Julia A. Carney• Little drops of water,

Little drains of sand,Make the mighty oceanAnd the beauteous land.

• And the little moments,Humble though they be,Make the mighty agesOf eternity.

• So our little errorsLead the soul away,From the paths of virtueInto sin to stray.

• Little deeds of kindness,Little words of love,Make our earth an Eden,Like the heaven above.

Example of Poem

Sammy Square• Sammy Square is my

name.My four sides are just the same.Turn me around, I don't care.I'm always the same.I'm Sammy Square.

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