Simplify and take the guesswork out of teaching poetry with these graphic organizers and step-by-step lessons. Model poems and lessons help students learn about the characteristics and structures of poetry forms such as haiku, limericks, and acrostics. Then, motivating graphic organizers, tailored to each poetry form, guide them in planning, and then writing their own poems. Includes ideas for building fluency and comprehension, extension activities, and a concise summary of recent best-practice research. For use with Grades 1-3.
50+ Easy Reproducible Frames That Guide Every Child to Write Different Forms of Poetry All Year Long
Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.
Contains twenty reproducible materials for constructing models to use as graphic organizers of ideas for writing and includes instructions and student samples.
58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way.
... writing and you know that they are ready to learn more, then gently present them with more techniques. For definitions, I have referred to the Harbrace College Handbook by John C. Hodges and Mary E. Whitten (HBJ Canada, 1986).
Mathematickles! Franco, Betsy. Math Poetry: Linking Language and Math in a Fresh Way Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems Ziefert, Harriet. Mother Goose Math Poems About Science Scieszka, Jon, and Smith, Lane.
More than 30 reproducible writing forms on which to showcase finished poems are provided. A special section of the book covers lots of interesting ways to display and share student poetry.
-Lucy Calkins Teaching Writing is Lucy Calkins at her best-a distillation of the work that's placed Lucy and her colleagues at the forefront of the teaching of writing for over thirty years.
This is an utterly original and completely beguiling prose novel about a boy who has to write a poem, and then another, and then even more.
Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.