Synopses & Reviews
Writing Simple Poems is a resource book that shows teachers how to use poetry writing to teach grammar and writing conventions. Appropriate for any age or fluency level, the book can be used by ESL, foreign language, or bilingual teachers as an adjunct to their writing program. Regular classroom teachers will find it useful for language arts. The first part of the book focuses on methodology and offers suggestions for ways to integrate poetry writing with the curriculum. The second part of the book contains twenty-five easy-to-follow lesson plans, each with poetry models and sample poems written by students of various ages and linguistic backgrounds. The third part of the book offers an index of teaching points and a glossary of grammar terms.
Review
'What a truly excellent book this is, a real goldmine for pretty much any teacher with even the vaguest interest in language play and creative language use.' CETEFL, the Internet magazine , Czech Republic
Synopsis
Writing Simple Poems shows teachers how to use poetry writing to teach students grammar and writing conventions.
Synopsis
Writing Simple Poems provides practical writing activities for teachers to use with their learners. This is a resource book that shows teachers how to use poetry writing as a medium to teach and reinforce structure, vocabulary, parts of speech, and punctuation, as well as other grammar and writing conventions. Appropriate for any age or fluency level, the book can be used by ESL, foreign language, or bilingual teachers as an adjunct to their writing program. It contains 25 easy-to-follow, self-contained lessons, each with poetry models and sample poems written by students of various ages and linguistic backgrounds. The simple patterns in this book will encourage students to express their own ideas creatively and accurately.
Synopsis
This text is a resource book that shows teachers how to use poetry writing as a medium to teach.
Synopsis
This resource book shows how to use poetry writing as a medium to teach and reinforce structure, parts of speech and punctuation, as well as other grammar and writing conventions. This is a resource book that shows teachers how to use poetry writing as a medium to teach and reinforce structure, vocabulary, parts of speech, and punctuation, as well as other grammar and writing conventions. Appropriate for any age or fluency level, the book can be used by ESL, foreign language, or bilingual teachers as an adjunct to their writing program. It contains 25 easy-to-follow, self-contained lessons, each with poetry models and sample poems written by students of various ages and linguistic backgrounds. The simple patterns in this book will encourage students to express their own ideas creatively and accurately.
Table of Contents
1: Acrostic; 2: Adjective poem; 3: Adjective placement poem; 4: Adverb poem; 5: Alphabet poem; 6: Beginnings and endings poem; 7: Biopoem; 8: Blotz poem; 9: Catalog poem; 10: Cinquain; 11: Color metaphor poem; 12: Contrast poem; 13: Countdown poem; 14: Days-of-the-week poem; 15: Diamante; 16: Five senses poem; 17: Haiku; 18: Hero poem; 19: I am poem; 20: I like poem; 21: I wish poem; 22: Phrase poem; 23: Preposition poem; 24: Simile poem; 25: Who-what-where-when-why-how poem