Prose+and+Poetry

=Prose and Poetry= "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." (Robert Frost). Rhythm and rhyme, similes and metaphors, alliteration and onomatopoeia - delightful literacy devices that serve as exploration points of the form and structure of the genre of poetry.

== = = =Novels= Booktalk these novels written in verse.

//Aleutian Sparrow// - Karen Hesse //Ann and Seamus// - Kevin Major //Crazy Man// - Pamela Porter //I Am Furniture// - Thalia Chaltas //Hate That Cat// - Sharon Creech //Hugging The Earth// - Susan Taylor Brown //Locomotion// - Jacqueline Woodson //Love That Cat// - Sharon Creech //Love That Dog - Sharon Creech Kaleidoscope Eyes// - Jen Bryant //Keeping the Night Watch// - Hope Anita Smith //One of Those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies// - Sonja Sones //Out of the Dust// - Karen Hesse //Sold// - Patricia McCormick //Shark Girl// - Kelly Bingham //Witness// - Karen Hesse //Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?// - Mel Glenn

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Acrostic Poems (ReadWriteThink): Online tool that enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included. Diamante Poems (ReadWriteThink): Online tool that enables students to learn about and write diamante poems. Examples, definitions of parts of speech, and elements of the writing process are also included. Eye on Idioms (ReadWriteThink): Students view the literal representations of seven idioms and then examine the metaphorical meanings of the idioms. Line Break Explorer (ReadWriteThink): Interactive tool that explores the ways that poets choose line breaks in their writing. After viewing the demonstration, students are invited to experiment with line breaks themselves. Riddle Interactive (ReadWriteThink): Outlines the characteristics of riddle poems and provides direct instruction on the prewriting and drafting process for writing original riddle poems. Shape Poems (ReadWriteThink): In this online tool, students can write poems about shapes in four different themes: Nature, School, Sports, and Celebrations. Elements of the writing process are also included.

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Cupcakes:Fill in the puzzle blanks correctly, before Cupcakes eats all the cupcakes. [|Fridge Magnets:] Create poems from a list of words and then print! Fowl Words: Compete with 7 hens to spell as many words as you can. Fowl Words 2: Spell words from hatching eggs before they fall off the conveyor belt Joggle: Find as many words as possible, or at least more than the computer does Letter Rip: Similar to Scabble; create words using lettered tiles on a game board Magnetic Poetry: Create poems by dragging word tiles Poetry Word Search: Word search puzzle Scrambled Word Game: Unscramble the words in this drag-and-drop word game Thesaurus Tangle: Discover the synonyms for the keywords before your time runs out Wordo: Clear the game board by spelling words using lettered tiles



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