The Use of Poetry To Facilitate Students’ Lexical Enrichment in A Junior High School

Abstract

Poetry and literacy play an important role in improving the students’ lexical enrichment. This best practice teaching used poetry as a medium of learning English. The purpose of this best practice teaching describes how the poetry writing program was implemented in a junior high school. This is a two-cycles classroom best practice implementation. In the first cycle, students wrote a word and then placed it in the box. In the second cycle, students utilized the same media to assemble a series of words into a poetry sentence. The participants involved in this classroom best practice were eight-grade students. During the implementation, observation and documentation were conducted. This best practice teaching was conducted for three months. Following three months of implementation, literacy activities continue to be regularly conducted every Thursday morning. These activities commence with the collective reading of non-educational books in the field. The implementation of this literacy activity required the cooperation of numerous stakeholders, including teachers and school leaders. The program’s conclusions benefit all parties involved, including schools, students, and supervising lecturers.