num_pages: 144
description: A practicing poet who works in schools shares poetry lessons that ease teachers and students into writing poetry. The fun, friendly exercises include writing riddle poems, fractured fairy tale poems, vegetable-and-me poems, and many others. Each lesson includes a model poem, a warm-up activity, and knock- out ideas for performance and publishing. Line breaks, white space, dramatic monologue, writing from the heart—it’s all covered. For use with Grades 3-6.
language: English
title: Stepping Sideways Into Poetry: Practical Lessons: Teaching Students the How-to - and the Heart of - Writing Poetry
titlecomplete: Stepping Sideways Into Poetry: Practical Lessons: Teaching Students the How-to - and the Heart of - Writing Poetry
publisher: Scholastic