Writing Poetry with Children

Explore the inspirational and imaginative world of poetry with your students! Writing Poetry with Children provides structured practice writing six types of poetry using engaging learning experiences that support students creative side. How-to charts help guide students through the step-by-step process of writing each type of poem. Then students bring their work to life by choosing from 30 reproducible illustrated writing forms. And since each lesson is presented at three difficulty levels, its easy to support all your students. Youll love Writing Poetry with Children because it: supports 6-Trait writing, makes teaching poetry easy, aids differentiated instruction, includes resources and directions for creating a poetry center, inspires reluctant writers, and is correlated to state standards. Students practice writing the following types of poetry: Couplets, Triplets and Quatrains, Word-Count and Syllable-Count Cinquains, Simplified and Traditional Haiku, Limericks, Shape Poems, and Acrostic Poems.