Writing Simple Poems: Pattern Poetry for Language AcquisitionCambridge University Press, 2001 M07 16 - 154 pages 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 21 |
Section 2 | 25 |
Section 3 | 32 |
Section 4 | 38 |
Section 5 | 47 |
Section 6 | 51 |
Section 7 | 57 |
Section 8 | 63 |
Section 13 | 88 |
Section 14 | 94 |
Section 15 | 99 |
Section 16 | 104 |
Section 17 | 108 |
Section 18 | 112 |
Section 19 | 119 |
Section 20 | 123 |
Section 9 | 67 |
Section 10 | 71 |
Section 11 | 78 |
Section 12 | 83 |
Section 21 | 128 |
Section 22 | 133 |
Section 23 | 138 |
Section 24 | 144 |
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Writing Simple Poems: Pattern Poetry for Language Acquisition Vicki L. Holmes,Margaret R. Moulton No preview available - 2001 |
Writing simple poems : pattern poetry for language acquisition Vicki L. Holmes,Margaret R. Moulton No preview available - 2004 |
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