The Power of Poems

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Pub. Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher(s): Maupin House Pub
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Summary

A common-sense approach to teaching your students how to write poetry, with lots of classroom-proven strategies and activities that free you to fit poetry into just about any part of your day. Activities are adaptable for high-school students. Encourages creativity while teaching solid writer's craft techniques.

Table of Contents

Poetry Philosophy
1(14)
What is Poetry?
1(1)
Why Poetry?
2(1)
How to Use This Book
3(1)
How Do We Encourage the Writing of Poetry?
4(1)
Special Needs
5(1)
Time to Write
6(1)
Oh, and One More Thing
7(1)
Poetry and the Language Arts Standards
8(4)
Books to Support a Poetry-Rich Environment
12(1)
Bibliography and Web Sites
13(1)
Preparing for Poetry
14(17)
Prerequisites of a Poetry Classroom
14(4)
Physical Environment
14(2)
Freedom of Choice
16(1)
A Purpose to Write
17(1)
The Need for an Audience
17(1)
Building Poetic Vocabulary
18(1)
Tools of the Trade
18(2)
Fitting Poetry into the Daily Schedule
20(3)
Social Studies
20(1)
Math
21(1)
Language Arts
21(1)
Physical Education
22(1)
Music Curriculum
22(1)
Other Times for Poetry
23(1)
Prewriting Activities
23(5)
Poems in a Box
23(1)
Making a Picture File
24(1)
Making a Newspaper File
25(3)
A Few More Thoughts to Share
28(1)
Bibliography and Web Sites
29(2)
Writing Activities
31(51)
Wordstorming!
31(1)
Generating Ideas
32(2)
Generating Ideas --- ``What If...''
34(1)
Inside Me
35(2)
``What If...''
37(1)
Tongue Twisters and Non-Sense
38(2)
Awesome Alliteration
40(1)
Rhythm and Rhyme
41(1)
Painting Pictures with Words
42(4)
Nature Poetry
46(1)
Music is Poetry
47(1)
And Poetry is Music!
48(1)
Poems That Tell Stories
49(2)
Metaphor and Simile
51(3)
Metaphor
51(2)
Simile
53(1)
``Guess What?''
53(1)
Fortunately Poetry!
54(1)
Poetry Workout
55(2)
Personal Favorites Poetry
57(1)
Times of Your Life
58(1)
``Way Back When...'' Poetry
59(1)
Pick a Word---Any Word!
59(1)
Picture Perfect Poems
60(2)
Words That Paint Pictures
62(1)
[Day] Dream Poems
63(1)
S-e-n-s-ible Poems
64(2)
Poems You Can Smell!
64(1)
A Sound Poem
65(1)
Feel That Poem!
65(1)
A Found Poem!
66(2)
Collecting Poems!
68(1)
Name Game
68(2)
Place Names
68(1)
People Name Game
69(1)
Shape Poetry
70(1)
High Interest Poems
71(1)
Memorizing a Poem
72(1)
Seasonal Poetry
73(2)
Whose Viewpoint?
75(1)
Adding Rhyme to Reason
76(1)
Take One Line and Add Words
77(1)
Personification
78(1)
Bibliography and Web Sites
79(3)
The Editing Process
82(5)
Critiquing
82(1)
Peer Conferencing
83(4)
Publishing and Sharing
87(17)
The Need for an Audience
87(1)
The Publishing Process
87(1)
Designing and Illustrating Books
88(5)
Fonts
89(1)
Illustrations
89(1)
Covers
90(1)
About the Author
91(1)
Assembling the Books
92(1)
Book Launch
93(2)
Parents
93(1)
Planning the Book Launch
94(1)
Invitations
94(1)
Prep Time
94(1)
More Ideas on Publishing in the Classroom
95(1)
Other Ways to Share and Celebrate
96(1)
Submitting Poetry to Magazines
96(2)
Magazines That Publish Writing by Children
97(1)
Publishing on the Internet
98(4)
Connecting with an Audience
99(1)
Publishing an E-Zine
100(2)
Bibliography and Web Sites
102(2)
After Words 104(2)
Bibliography 106(7)
Index 113

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