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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

My Top Ten Favorite Poetry Websites

1. “Materials For Teachers” page from The Academy of American Poets

2. Poetry 180 from the Library of Congress

3. The “Explore Poems” search feature from The Poetry Foundation

4. The Poem Farm from Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

5. The National Poetry Day website from the UK’s Forward Arts Foundation

6. Dodge Poetry website from the largest poetry event in the United States and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

7. Button Poetry on YouTube

8. Ours Poetica on YouTube from The Poetry Foundation

9. Red Frost Motivation on YouTube for classic poems

10. Go Poems for 180 Poetry Pause ideas written by teachers

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