Ignite a love of poetry in students using the magic of poems themselves "Pop the hood" on a poem to discover what makes it work by using text structures to unlock the engine of a poem. Fifty unique and engaging lessons each include a mentor poem that serves as an excellent model for young writers, a diagram that illustrates the text structure of the poem, and inspiring examples of student poems written to emulate the mentor poem. Identify how the parts of a poem relate to each other to create movement and soon your students will be writing their own evocative poems.

Text Structures From Poetry, Grades 4-12: Lessons to Help Students Read, Analyze, and Create Poems They Will Remember (Corwin Literacy)

Education & Teaching

Bernabei, Gretchen

Van Prooyen, Laura

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

Frances of the Wider Field is about mothers, daughters, time, mortality-the loss of memory and meaning. Van Prooyen's poems have clarity and ferocity, a wild imaginative grace that captures the joy and strangeness of our most intimate and familiar experiences. Frances appears part god, part curious child, part the small solitary voice inside. Van Prooyen asks " Is a sigh a word? Is a body a word? / Is a tongue the beginning?" She tells us "Memory cannot undo the future. Frances, if I said, /tonight I thank the seven sisters, it's really / the blue dust of God between them. Or you."

Frances of the Wider Fields

Parenting & Relationships

Lily Poetry Review

Inkblot and Altar

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Pecan Grove Press

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