This is the ideal introductory text for students and teachers discovering the art of poetry. As a "grammar," it teaches the fundamentals of poetry from scansion and rhyme to more advanced concepts like spatial poetry and synecdoche. Using the classical methodology of imitation (advocated by educators like Quintilian and Benjamin Franklin), this text makes students become active participants as they learn the craft of writing poems. It also offers practical tips and helps, including how to use a rhyming dictionary, how great writers use figures of speech effectively, and even when to break the rules of poetry. Its goal is to show students how to capably interact not just with poems, but with language in any situation.
 Developed and used at Logos School with great success, the thirty lessons in Grammar of Poetry contain instruction on ten powerful tropes, student activities for every chapter, riddles to solve, a glossary of terms, a list of over 150 quality poems to integrate, and real-life examples from Shakespeare to traditional tongue twisters. It is designed for a semester at the 6-9th grade level, but is perfectly appropriate for anyone with basic writing skills and the desire to learn poetry.

Grammar of Poetry (Imitation in Writing)

Children's Books

Whitling, Matt

Literature & Fiction

Canon Press

This is the ideal introductory text for students and teachers discovering the art of poetry. As a 'grammar,' it teaches the fundamentals of poetry from scansion and rhyme to more advanced concepts like spatial poetry and synecdoche. Using the classical methodology of imitation (advocated by educators like Quintilian and Benjamin Franklin), this text makes students become active participants as they learn the craft of writing poems. It also offers practical tips and helps, including how to use a rhyming dictionary, how great writers use figures of speech effectively, and even when to break the rules of poetry. Its goal is to show students how to capably interact not just with poems, but with language in any situation. This Teacher's Edition contains a final exam, instructions on using the text and grading poetry, and ideas for additional assignments, as well as answers to the exercises found in the Student Edition.

Grammar of Poetry: Teacher's Edition

History & Criticism

Teach writing through the time-tested classical approach of imitation. This Greek Myths text is the third book in a growing series of Imitation in Writing materials designed to teach aspiring writers the art and discipline of crafting delightful prose and poetry. The text includes a short background of imitation as a means of teaching writing, instructions, grading guidelines, twenty-seven Greek myths formatted for imitation, and a glossary of Greek gods and terms. Fourth grade and up.

Imitation in Writing: Greek Myths

Imitation in Writing: Greek Heroes

Reference

This text is the fifth book in a growing series of Imitation in Writing materials designed to teach aspiring writers the art and discipline of crafting delightful prose and poetry. This text focuses on teaching the fundamentals of poetry: figurative language, meter, rhyme, etc. by means of imitation and review. Included are instructions, worksheets, tests and a historic poetry anthology.

The Grammar of Poetry : Teacher's Edition (Imitation in Writing)

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Logos School

The Poetry Primer is the sixth book in a growing series of Imitation in Writing materials designed to teach aspiring writers the art and discipline of crafting delightful prose and poetry. This primer was created to provide introductory level instruction and practice before the student begins the Grammar of Poetry.

Imitation in Writing - Poetry Primer

Education & Reference

This Medieval Legends text is the sixth in a growing series of Imitation in Writing materials designed to teach aspiring writers the art and discipline of crafting delightful prose and poetry.

Imitation in Writing: Medieval Legends

Don't learn just memorize spelling lists. Learn how to spell.\nMany spelling programs overwhelm kids with a lot of spelling rules, which only pile up as the year goes on. This program, developed by veteran Logos teacher Matt Whitling, teaches and reviews five basic spelling rules, as well as more difficult spelling words called stumpers. The lists are cumulative, which allows students to review words throughout the year, and each lesson features dictation sentences that allow even more practice.\nEach lesson has the students write the list four times. Students repeat the words, put the words in alphabetical order, write the words from memory, and write them in cursive.\nThis all-new edition of Grammar of Spelling has brand-new formatting; lesson instructions for the teacher, with tips on how to teach the rule or sound pattern; 2 dictation sentences for every lesson; 5 extra words taken from the Logos Press homeschool bundle curriculum; and point assignments for every dictation sentence and for all the tests\nThe fourth grade Spelling level includes 38 lists. They cover the five spelling rules, homophones, books of the Bible, words from American history, weather words, ordinals, and difficult "stumpers."

The Grammar of Spelling: Grade 4

Logos Press

The Grammar of Spelling: Grade 5

Don't learn just memorize spelling lists. Learn how to spell.\nMany spelling programs overwhelm kids with a lot of spelling rules, which only pile up as the year goes on. This program, developed by veteran Logos teacher Matt Whitling, teaches and reviews five basic spelling rules, as well as more difficult spelling words called stumpers. The lists are cumulative, which allows students to review words throughout the year, and each lesson features dictation sentences that allow even more practice.\nEach lesson has the students write the list four times. Students repeat the words, put the words in alphabetical order, write the words from memory, and write them in cursive. This all-new edition of Grammar of Spelling has the following all-new features: brand-new formatting; lesson instructions for the teacher, with tips on how to teach the rule or sound pattern; 2 dictation sentences for every lesson; 5 extra words taken from the Logos Press homeschool bundle curriculum; point assignments for every dictation sentence and for all the tests\nThe sixth grade Spelling level includes 36 lists. They cover the five spelling rules, geography words, history words, science words, and difficult "stumpers" and "spelling goblins."

The Grammar of Spelling: Grade 6

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