Creative Poetry Writing

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This book provides practical ideas for teaching poetry through a variety of activities including singing, metaphors, and similes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The authors and series editor (p. 1)
• Foreword (p. 3)
• Introduction (p. 5)
• How to use this book (p. 13)
• 1 Sound poems (p. 17)
• 1.1 Animal sound poems: Contented lions (p. 17)
• 1.2 Onomatopoeic poems: Snoring Englishmen (p. 22)
• 1.3 Nickname poems: Garihumbabi, pyramid priest (p. 24)
• 1.4 Rhyming poems: Heart where you feel (p. 26)
• 1.5 Rhythm poems: Gone to London (p. 27)
• 1.6 Alliterative poems: The Cute Creams (p. 29)
• 2 Wordplay poems (p. 32)
• 2.1 Word invention poems: beginnings of words Subview-the view from the floor (p. 32)
• 2.2 Word invention poems: the ends of words Powerful mice (p. 35)
• 2.3 Grammar play poems: Honeying the girls (p. 38)
• 2.4 Opposites poems: Idlis and chapattis (p. 41)
• 2.5 Preposition poems: Water everywhere (p. 44)
• 2.6 Word association poems: Red, the money goddess (p. 46)
• 3 Wordmixing poems (p. 48)
• 3.1 Similes about language learning: Words like sea shells (p. 49)
• 3.2 Similes about people: Sister like a flower (p. 50)
• 3.3 Idiom poems: As dear as a donkey (p. 53)
• 3.4 Adjective/noun poems: The kind snow (p. 55)
• 3.5 Metaphor poems: Hope is a spoon (p. 59)
• 3.6 Weather poems: The snorting storm (p. 61)
• 4 Sentence pattern poems (p. 64)
• 4.1 I can, I can't: I can hear the rain (p. 64)
• 4.2 Inner questions: Where are you? (p. 67)
• 4.3 Conversation poems: OK, bye-bye (p. 69)
• 4.4 Orders and commands: Stones as souvenirs (p. 71)
• 4.5 Relative clauses: I wonder who paints butterflies (p. 74)
• 4.6 I know poem: My mother knows my shoe size (p. 76)
• 4.7 Poems about first days: Surprised by mashed potato (p. 79)
• 4.8 Mashed sentence poem: I am fond of bananas (p. 81)
• 5 Time poems (p. 83)
• 5.1 Poems about age: Being young, being old (p. 83)
• 5.2 Busy activity poems: Here is a beehive (p. 85)
• 5.3 Ancient monuments speak: Slaves and princes (p. 88)
• 5.4 Memory poems: Now I'm a poet (p. 90)
• 5.5 Inner and outer poems: Not climbing but falling (p. 92)
• 5.6 Talking about the past: I remember the sight of nothing (p. 95)
• 5.7 Feelings: If love was a sweet (p. 96)
• 6 Modal verb poems (p. 100)
• 6.1 Guessing poems: A note folded inside a diary (p. 100)
• 6.2 Ideal world poems: A place with no schools (p. 103)
• 6.3 Values poem: You can't cuddle money (p. 104)
• 6.4 Giving advice: If you want to be free (p. 106)
• 6.5 Poetry market: Poems for sale! (p. 108)
• 6.6 New Community Ten Commandments: Be kind when you can (p. 111)
• 7 Language function poems (p. 113)
• 7.1 Poems about finding the way: On the corner of night and dreams (p. 113)
• 7.2 Poems about getting rid of unwanted clutter: The reject shop (p. 116)
• 7.3 Fairy-tale advice column: Glass shoes (p. 120)
• 7.4 Celebrating and inviting poems: Seeing snow (p. 123)
• 7.5 Poems comparing likes and preferences: Tigers and oranges (p. 125)
• 7.6 Praise-songs: My magnificent bull (p. 128)
• 8 Genre poems (p. 131)
• 8.1 Recipe poems: Custard kisses (p. 131)
• 8.2 Memo poems: I have forgotten to take the rose (p. 134)
• 8.3 List poems: Tom's Blue-Eye astrologer's shop (p. 136)
• 8.4 Diary poems: First pair of high heels (p. 139)
• 8.5 Postcard poems: Greetings from the moon (p. 140)
• 8.6 Answerphone messages: Press nothing (p. 143)
• 8.7 Greetings card jumble poem: Merry birthday (p. 145)
• 9 Poetry games (p. 147)
• 9.1 Mini-sagas: There was a boy from Turkey (p. 147)
• 9.2 Chain poems: Snake in the grass (p. 150)
• 9.3 Expanding poems: Roses at the wedding (p. 152)
• 9.4 Shape poems: Write my country (p. 154)
• 9.5 Alphabet poems: His the high jump (p. 157)
• 9.6 Riddles: I waved and he waved back (p. 159)
• 10 Poems as stories: Go and open the door (p. 162)
• 10.1 First times and last times: First he was a boy, then he was a man (p. 162)
• 10.2 Now and then poems: When I was good (p. 164)
• 10.3 Inner language, outer language: The music is playing (p. 166)
• 10.4 Poems about family members (p. 169)
• 10.5 Family sagas: My grandmother's bed (p. 171)
• 10.6 Poems about changes: First I was, Then I was (p. 173)
• 10.7 A visualization poem: Go and open the door (p. 175)
• Appendix 1 Poetry forms (p. 179)
• 1 Poems which count syllables (p. 179)
• 2 Poems which repeat lines (p. 181)
• 3 Poems with special rhyme schemes (p. 181)
• 4 Poems which have special rhythms (p. 183)
• 5 Poems which have a special mood (p. 183)
• Appendix 2 Glossary of key words (p. 184)
• Further reading (p. 191)
• 1 Collections of short poems for the classroom (p. 191)
• 2 Resource books for teachers (p. 191)
• 3 Articles and discussions about poetry in the classroom (p. 192)
• 4 Useful websites for poetry (p. 192)
• 5 Dictionaries and reference books (p. 192)
• Index (p. 193)