Magnetic Poetry is an innovation that helps teachers put many aspects of the Language Arts curriculum literally right in the students' hands. Our students have swapped suffixes, maneuvered sentence patterns, played with parts of speech, and explored shades of meaning. Because of the versatility of this tool, first through twelfth grade teachers can adapt virtually any lesson that involves writing or studying the English Language to make it more child-centered. It's easier than thinking up all of those big words by myself. It's fun to be able to mix up words and sentences.
Supplementary materials serve different and necessary purposes.
We use text books as a resource, journals to record our thoughts, and novels to explore quality literature. We now have Magnetic Poetry to build on our students' enthusiasm and confidence as writers while making the other language curriculum come alive. We, personally, can no longer imagine teaching without it. Pre-Readers Word Snakes Have the student line up a few Magnetic Poetry tiles. Then have the student add more tiles to the snake, and repeat the reading aloud and rear-ranging, taking input from the student.