Writing Simple Poems: Pattern Poetry for Language Acquisition

by Vicki L. Holmes, Margaret R. Moulton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521785525
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/16/2001
Series:	Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.39(d)

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

Editorial Reviews

'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

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