Writing Poetry with Children Grade 1 - 6 Teacher Resource [Large Print]

By Jo Ellen Moore and Evan Moor

Explore the inspirational and imaginative world of poetry with your students Writing Poetry with Childrenprovides 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, it's easy to support all your students.

You'll love Writing Poetry with Children because it:

supports 6-Trait writing. Activities build skills in each trait--ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, and conventions. And a trait-based writing guide at the beginning of the book makes it easy to see exactly which skills are being developed.makes teaching poetry easy. Teacher pages explain each form of poetry and give ideas for conducting lessons. Teaching more difficult type of poetry isn't as daunting with guided instruction and step-by-step student writing forms.aids differentiated instruction. Lessons come in three difficulty levels so you can tailor instruction to your students' needs.includes resources and directions for creating a poetry center. Reinforce the writing skills introduced with engaging practice in a fun center format.inspires reluctant writers. Easy-to-follow directions and writing forms make writing poetry easy and approachable.is correlated to state standards.

Students practice writing the following types of poetry:

CoupletsTriplets and QuatrainsWord-Count and Syllable-Count CinquainsSimplified and Traditional HaikuLimericksShape PoemsAcrostic Poems

This resource contains teacher support pages and reproducible student pages. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

About Evan-Moor
A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557997349
• ISBN13: 9781557997340
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 6 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 7

Customer Reviews

Makes writing poetry easy

This is a great tool for teaching children how to write poetry. Good explanations of the types of poetry and fun pages on which to write poetry. The kids keep asking, "When do we get to write more poetry?"

Great book

I homeschool my 12-year old son and it was difficult finding anything on line about poetry. This book covers couplets, triplets, quatrains, cinquains, haiku, limericks, shape poems and acrostics. It has plenty of template pages and we have both enjoyed working from this book. I wish I had reproduced the pages before we used them, as you could write different types of poems on each of the templates. I would highly recommend this book if you want to cover basic poetry.

Fun Book!

My family is having lots of fun learning the forms in this book. Easy to understand and any child who can read and write can do it. This book helped me interest my children in writing, and sometimes I find them doing it on their own now!