Writing Simple Poems

Writing Simple Poems provides practical writing activities for teachers to use with their learners. This is a resource book that shows teachers how to use poetry writing as a medium to teach and reinforce structure vocabulary parts of speech and punctuation as well as other grammar and writing conventions. Appropriate for any age or fluency level the book can be used by ESL foreign language or bilingual teachers as an adjunct to their writing program. It contains 25 easy-to-follow self-contained lessons each with poetry models and sample poems written by students of various ages and linguistic backgrounds. The simple patterns in this book will encourage students to express their own ideas creatively and accurately.