Poems will inspire your second graders to think, "I can write poems like this, too!"
Routman provides strategies for using kids' poems as models to guide children to write poems about things they know and care about.Kids can write about the trauma of eating peas, the pleasure of reading and the thrill of playing hockey.
She invites children to study the model poem — beginning by asking kids, "What do you notice?"
She demonstrates the poetry-writing process to children: thinking aloud and drafting poems about her own life and then inviting children to write on their own.
Includes 20 reproducible poems written and illustrated by second graders to share with kids.
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