Let poet Paul Janeczko guide you through ten fun forms of poetry kids will love! Teaching poetry becomes a total joy with this renowned poet’s insights, easy-to-use reproducibles, and step-by-step mini-lessons at your fingertips. Includes background information, ideas for teaching the forms, and reproducible models for each kind of poem. Poetic forms include haiku, senryu, tanka, limerick, found, concrete, and more! For use with Grades 4-8.

Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms Of Poetry: Great Lessons, Brainstorming Sheets, and Organizers for Writing Haiku, Limericks, Cinquains, and Other Kinds of Poetry Kids Love (Teaching Strategies)

Humor & Entertainment

Janeczko, Paul

Humor

Teaching Resources

Paul Janeczko is the best-selling author of numerous poetry books. This book is a how-to guide for writing funny poems.

Good For a Laugh A Guide to Writing Amusing, Clever, and Downright Funny Poems

Children's Books

Janeczko, Paul B.

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic. Inc.

A series of poems in which a young boy describes his life with his flower children parents, his friends, and neighbors.

Stardust Otel

scholastic

An anthology of poems celebrates the feelings of home and explores such settings as Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam, a post office in Poland, a safe haven in Nicaragua, and a Texas ranch

Wherever Home Begins

Stone Bench In An Empty Park

Janeczko/silberman

Boost students’ reading skills through poetry-based lessons and engaging activities presented by poet and teacher Paul Janeczko. Students will gain a solid understanding of key literary elements, including: * character * setting * theme * plot * metaphor * simile * and more! This knowledge will help students readily identify these elements not only in poetry but in all types of literature, allowing them to have a deeper comprehension of what they read. Each lesson includes background information, tips for reading the poem aloud, an opportunity for writing, reproducible activity sheets, and more. By completing the lessons in this book, students will also meet the Common Core State Standards that address literary elements and the genre of poetry. For use with Grades 4-8.

Teaching Literary Elements Using Poetry: Engaging Poems Paired With Close Reading Lessons That Teach Key Literary Elements to Meet the Common Core ELA Standards

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Teacher's Friend

Whether writing a poem to a crush, writing to express your deepest thoughts, or just having fun with words, this book shows you how poems can be constructed and gives you tips to improve your writing From getting started to the finished product, How to Write Poetry is an essential book for every young poet to own. Paul B. Janeczko, an award-winning poet and compiler of best-selling poetry anthologies for young people, shares his very thorough tips on the art of writing poetry. Where do you get ideas? What are simple poems to write? How do you find just the right word? What pitfalls should you watch out for? These and many other questions are answered by the author, in example poems, and through quotes from other famous poets.

How To Write Poetry Scholastic Guides

Teen & Young Adult

Scholastic Reference

A Poet's Great Lessons For Writing Free Verse, Rhyming List Poems, Synonym Poems, Clerihews, Wish Poems, Letter Poems, Persona Poems, and More This book includes illustrated reproducible poems by students and well-known poets. Each lesson takes you step-by-step: from introducing a poem and discussing it's characteristics, to using it as a springboard for students' verse.

Favorite Poetry Lessons (Grades 4-8)

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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