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Kids' Poems: Teaching Third and Fourth Graders to Love Writing Poetry »

Authors: Regie Routman
ISBN-13: 9780590227353, ISBN-10: 0590227351
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Date Published: February 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Regie Routman

Book Synopsis

Regie Routman shares her delightful selection of free verse poems written by third-and fourth graders that will inspire your second graders to think, I can write poems like this too! Regie provides strategies for using kids' poems as models to guide chi

	Instructional Sequence	4
	Why Free-Verse Poetry Writing?	5
	Getting Ready to Teach Poetry Writing	8
	Beginning to Teach Poetry Writing	11
	Writing the First Poems	15
	Sharing and Celebrating	17
	Follow-up Sessions	18
	Demonstrating Before Each Writing Session	19
	Publishing	35
	The Kids' Poems
	Close Observations
	Fence	38
	My Pencil	40
	Thanksgiving	42
	Sound
	Instruments	44
	I Hear	46
	Lighthearted Laments
	Mix-Up	48
	"Honey Do's!"	50
	Pets
	Scruffy	52
	If You Had a Cat Named Furball	54
	Family Ups and Downs
	Divorce	56
	Finally My "Dad" Came "Home"	58
	Stepbrothers	60
	Nicknames
	Legs	60
	Braces Blues	62
	Best Friends
	My Best Friend	64
	Richard	66
	Sisters
	My Sister Kayla	68
	My Sister Nicole	70
	Paying Tribute
	Claudia	72
	Dream	74
	Bad Days!
	Bad Days	76
	My Dad	78
	Sports
	Football!	80
	Baseball Stress	82
	Settings
	Colorado River	84
	Shadows	86
	Illustration Credits	88