This document provides ideas for using poems in the classroom, including reading poems aloud and having students solve puzzles, complete phrases, and predict ideas from poems. It also offers suggestions for writing poems, such as finishing incomplete poems, altering published poems, writing acoustics, and having students describe a scene and then "poemify" their description. Finally, it lists some poetic forms for students to experiment with, such as couplets, alphabetics, spine poems, and haiku.

2. Ideas forusingpoems in classReading poems:Read a «puzzle» fromthepoem and studentssolveit.GiveSssomesentences/ phrasesfromthepoem and askthemto complete themwiththirownmetaphors, images, ideas,…Predict ideas, opinion in a poemBrainstorm and discussthefeelings/storythat lie behind a poemDo a picturedictation: describe thescene in thepoem and Ssdraw a picture. At theendthey compare pictures and readthepoem, decidingwhoisclosesttothe original.

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5. Writingpoems«Finishmypoem». Theteacherprovides a nearly complete poemwithpartsto complete.«Alterations». GiveSs a publishedpoem, theycopyitwith a number of alterations. Whentheyreaditaloudtheotherteamsmustguesswhatisnotfromthe original.«Acrostics»: try outsomedifferentpoeticformssuch as acrostics, a funwaytostartpeoplewriting.«Wakeningthesenses». Theteachergives a series of instructionsthataskSsto look, listen, noticewhatisaroundthem and withinthem. Each line iswritten as balddescription. AfterwardsSsgo back and «poemify» it.

6. SomepoeticformstoexperimentwithCoupletsAlphabeticsSpinepoemsEndingsSamewordsHaikuDiamontesLimeriksSonnets

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9. What’sthis? What’sthat?Changethe original

10. SIMPLE POEMSSUMMERHot daysCold ice creamYellowsandBlue waterBig wavesSmall fishNAME POEMSShelikesplantsAnimalsRed rosesAnd High placesIN THE GARDENOnedog sleeping in thesunTwocatswashingtheirearsThreechildrenplaying in thegrassFourmothersdrinking teaFivetreeswithgreenleavesSixbutterfliesflying in theskySevenclothesonthe lineEightbirds in a treeNineclouds full of rainTen flowerswithyellowheads.MIRÓ

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