Poems are Teachers

Poems are Teachers PDF Author: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325096537
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Children's writer and poet Amy Ludwig VanDerwater leads us on an adventure through poetry, pointing out craft elements along the way that students can use to improve all their writing, from idea finding to language play. "Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small," Amy explains. "And, too, poems teach us how to write. Anything." This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher. Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet and two by students in grades 2 through 8, which serve as models to illustrate how poetry teaches writers to: find ideas, choose perspective and point of view, structure texts, play with language, craft beginnings and endings, choose titles. Students will learn how to replicate the craft techniques found in poetry to strengthen all writing, from fiction to opinion, from personal narrative to information. "Poets arrange words and phrases just as prose writers do, simply in tighter spaces," Amy argues. "In the tight space of poetry, readers can identify writing techniques after reading one page, not thirty pages."

Poetry Everywhere

Poetry Everywhere PDF Author: Jack Collom
Publisher: Teachers & Writers Collaborative
ISBN: 9780915924691
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
The dazzling new edition of this "tremendously valuable resource" (Kliatt) contains 65 writing exercises and more than 400 example poems. It also discusses how to integrate poetry writing into the English class and essential topics such as sound and rhythm, traditional poetic forms, inventing and adapting exercises, revision, and publishing. "The lessons are presented with clarity, common sense, and sophisticated artistic sensibilities."-Missoula Independent "Poetry Everywhere will ease any trepidation [about writing poetry]."-English Journal

Creative Poetry Writing

Creative Poetry Writing PDF Author: Jane Spiro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194421898
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Practical ideas for teaching language through poetry. iCreative Poetry Writing/i is for teachers who would like to give students the opportunity to say something original, while practising new language.

I Never Told Anybody

I Never Told Anybody PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description


Grammar of Poetry

Grammar of Poetry PDF Author: Matt Whitling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781591281191
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description


Writing Simple Poems

Writing Simple Poems PDF Author: Vicki L. Holmes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521785529
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
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.

Poets on Teaching

Poets on Teaching PDF Author: Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587299046
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
"Here is an astonishingly generous gathering of poetic energies and imaginations aimed toward turning more and more classrooms into scenes of transformative engagement with the prime instrument of our humanity, language. The essential work of exploratory play with words is presented in heartening variety in its necessary wildness, surprising pleasures, gravitas, illumination. This book is a catalogue of invention: visionary, pragmatic, surprising, fun---useful because it's inspiring and vice versa. The poets' essays are themselves an affirmation of the vital presence of poetry in our culture, proof and promise, Q.E.D."---Joan Retallock, coeditor, Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, and author, The Poethical Wager --Book Jacket.

Teach Yourself Writing Poetry

Teach Yourself Writing Poetry PDF Author: John Hartley Williams
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780844239477
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Teach Yourself Books.

Teaching Poetry Writing

Teaching Poetry Writing PDF Author: Tom Hunley
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847696813
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach is a comprehensive alternative to the full-class workshop approach to poetry writing instruction. In the five canon approach, peer critique of student poems takes place in online environments, freeing up class time for writing exercises and lessons based on the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.

How to Write Poetry

How to Write Poetry PDF Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613357296
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An award-winning poet and anthologist provides a versatile guide for young readers and offers concrete advice that will help them express themselves through poetry.