Decorate your classroom with common literary devices using these literature posters!

• Provides clear explanations of 18 literary devices, including allegory, hyperbole, imagery, and more
• Includes vivid examples to clarify each literary device
• Encourages students to use devices in their own writing
• Features artistic illustrations to highlight meanings and examples

These childrens poetry writing lessons provide excellent teaching resources for classroom and homeschool. Click here to see sample pages. Nurture the promising poets in your classroom! Helps students recognize devices in prose and poetry through word-play activities. Encourages students to use common poetic devices in their own writing and provides powerful examples that inspire students to express themselves in new, unique ways.

Format: Softcover
Recommended Grades: 9th-12th
Publisher: Walch Publishing

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For teachers of grades 3-6
A common sense approach to poetry writing 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 through middle and even high school. Encourages creativity and teaches solid writer's craft techniques. 120 Pages.

The overall goal of Primarily Poetry is each student's admiration for, comfort and familiarity with, and friendly mastery of some basic tools of language, specifically poetic language. These tools are transferable to any form of writing that requires cogency, wit, and clarity. Writing poetry is within the reach of primary students with these innovative lessons. A compilation of lessons from the California Poets in the Schools program, these innovative exercises build language and creative skills that students will use for poetry writing and all other writing experiences. Each easy-to-follow lesson includes detailed lesson plans, sample poems, extensions, and a reproducible worksheet. You'll find lessons for unique poems like wish poems, simile poems, doodle poems, collage poems, five senses poems, neighborhood poems, alphabet poems, and many more.

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Children get life-long benefits from aquiring the poetry writing skills taught in these lessons. Motivate your students to read, discuss, analyze, and write poetry! Models effective writing with student samples. Stimulates discussion with poems interesting to teens. Supports the teacher with helpful teaching suggestions. Provides an extensive bibliography.

Format: Reproducible Teacher Book, Soft Cover, 192 pages
Recommended Grades: 6th-12th
Publisher: Walch Publishing

These childrens poetry writing lessons provide excellent teaching resources for classroom and homeschool. In this childrens poetry writing lesson book students learn writing skills through learning how to write poetry. 4th to 6th grade, 144 pages filled with hundreds of motivating lessons and activities, The Poetry Corner helps you show students that poetry is a part of everyday life from nursery rhymes, schoolyard chants, jump rope jingles, and popular music, to the Pledge of Allegiance.. Poetry from the past and present, drawn from traditional sources as well as common childhood experiences, provide models and standards for reading, writing, and evaluating poetry. Lessons such as "Newspaper Poems," "License Plate Poems," diamante, and lanterne poems encourage student creativity and are guaranteed to capture and hold students' ...

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These childrens poetry writing lessons provide excellent teaching resources for classroom and homeschool. Empower students to talk, write, and think about literature masterfully! Illuminates the basics of literature, including setting, plot, character, mood, theme, and point of view. Develops literary vocabulary. Demystifies poetic terms and forms. Includes a special section on poetry explication.

Format: Softcover
Recommended Grades: 9th-12th
Publisher: Walch Publishing

Children get life-long benefits from aquiring the poetry writing skills taught in these lessons. In this dynamic creative writing course students build writing skills through interesting theme writing. This 144 page childrens poetry writing lesson book can help almost anyone learn how to write and understand poetry. In this unique book, written for both beginning and experienced writers, the author defines 14 poetic elements in easy-to-understand terms.

The "Writing Poetry" book features:

• More than 100 examples and poems written by people of all ages illustrate each poetic element.
  
• 14 poetic elements defined and illustrated, including editing
• Ready-to-do exercises and writing ideas
• Tips for composing, changing, and reading your poetry
• Worksheets, exercises, and writing suggestions provide immediate ...

Offering a wide variety of creative prompts that will engage any writer, Writing Success Through Poetry provides timesaving lessons to help teachers create a writers' workshop in the classroom. The author, a published poet and children's book author, provides 25 original poems as prompts for students to use as inspiration for their own poetry and prose. The book offers practical, pointed questions to facilitate Socratic-style discussions and explorations of literary concepts found within the poems. Writing Success through Poetry uses methods to instill young writers with a mental checklist for self-evaluation of their writing, as well as a profound respect for the power of poetic writing in every genre.

Format: paperback, 130 pages, 8.5"x11"
Author: Susan L. Lipson
Publisher: Prufrock Press, Inc.
Recommended Grades: ...

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These childrens poetry writing lessons provide excellent teaching resources for classroom and homeschool. Invite students to create their own works of art! Models good poetry writing. Encourages students with lively prompts. Contains useful instruction in colorful language and poetic devices.

Format: Softcover
Recommended Grades: 10th-12th
Publisher: Walch Publishing