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Popular Forms of Poetry to Teach Children October 30, 2009

Diamante Poems | Rhyme Schemes | Rhymes | Acrostic Poems | Quatrains | Haiku | Limericks | Clerihew | Tanka | Free Verse | Simile | Metaphor | Alliteration 
Combine teaching these pattern based poems with the “Pattern Based Writing: Quick and Easy Essay” writing program and your students will be both highly effective and highly [...]

How Teaching Children to Write Poetry Can Improve Student Writing Across the Curriculum October 29, 2009

Why Teach Children Poetry?
Are you a true lover of poetry? Are you an avid and exceptional teacher of poetry in the classroom? If so… then this article is not for you.
This article is for the rest of us teachers who know that poetry has value… but with limited time and so much to cover… poetry [...]