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Poetry Pauses: Teaching With Poems to Elevate Student Writing in All Genres

by Brett Vogelsinger

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  • Introduction: Purposeful Poetry Pauses
    • Twenty of My All-Time Favorite Poems to Share With Students
  • Chapter 1: Poetry to Bring on the Brainstorm
    • Other List Poems to Bring on the Brainstorms:
    • Other Abecedarian Poems to Bring on the Brainstorms:
    • Other Golden Shovel Poems to Bring on the Brainstorm:
  • Chapter 3: Poetry Pauses for Crafting Narrative
    • Five Favorite Food Poems
    • Poems that Demonstrate Narrative Movement Well
    • Five More Poems to Demonstrate A Climactic Shift
    • Poetry Pause: Tell It Again in Flashes
  • Chapter 4: Poetry Pauses for Argument Writing
    • Poems, Topics, and Questions Chart
  • Chapter 5: Poetry Pauses for Writing Informative and Research Pieces
    • A Sample Assignment: Writing Poetry from History Research, Grade 8
    • Poems That Incorporate Facts and Research
    • How-To Poems
    • Poems that Work Well for this Exercise (in order of increasing complexity):
  • Chapter 6: Poetry Pauses for Improving Grammar and Punctuation Skills
    • Poems That Demonstrate Parallel Structure
    • Poems To Draw Our Attention to Nouns and Verbs
    • Poems and Punctuation Marks Chart
  • Chapter 7: Poetry as a Healthy Literacy Routine
    • Poems of Light and Hope
    • Five of My Favorite Poetry Podcasts
    • My Top Ten Favorite Poetry Websites
  • Appendix B: Reproducibles

Poems To Draw Our Attention to Nouns and Verbs

“Child on Top of a Greenhouse” by Theodore Roethke – memoir writing

“dog” by Valerie Worth – descriptive writing

“Wyoming Highways” by William Notter – technical writing

“Makin’ Jump Shots” by Robert Harper – sports writing

“Shoulders” by Naomi Shihab Nye – narrative scene writing

“Daisy” by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater – character development

“We Never Know” by Yusef Komunyakaa – narrative scene writing

“The Playground Elegy” by Clint Smith – argument writing

“When the Virus Comes” by Angelo Geter – analysis writing

“Beethoven” by Shane Koyczan – research writing

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