Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry

Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Format: Paperback
Published: Scholastic, 2000

Noted anthologist, poet, and teacher Paul Janeczko has developed a series of reproducible worksheets that guide students through the poem-writing process. The pages prompt students to study each model poem, brainstorm for ideas, draft, revise, consider word choice, metaphors, mood, and more. With the innovative activities in this book, your students will learn not only how to build a poem, but also how to think and work as poets. The ten poetry forms included are: acrostics, ballads, blues poems, cinquains, clerihews, concrete poems, haiku, limericks, senryu, and tankas.