| The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet: 104 Unusual Ways to Write Poetry in the Classroom and the Community Contributor(s): Morice, Dave (Author) |
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ISBN: 0915924447 ISBN-13: 9780915924448 Publisher: Teachers & Writers Collaborative OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet is a compendium of 104 poetry writing methods that have excited and challenged Dave Morice's students for the past two decades: poetry mobiles, a poetry robot, postage stamp poems, Rolodex poems, shadow poems, chopstick quatrains, poetry balloons, a poetry shirt, a poem wrapping an entire school, a mysterious poetry box, a one-word-a-day epic, rubber-stamp poems, an all-school collaboration, a haiku maze, a dollar-bill limerick, and 89 other inventive exercises. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts - Education | Elementary - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General |
| Dewey: 372.640 |
| LCCN: 94038914 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.71" W x 8.45" (0.89 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the writer of Poetry Comics, this thoughtful collection of exercises and student poems offers myriad examples of how the two and three dimensional may be integrated with the textual, in the making of poetry. This guide is an ideal manual for teachers who prefer detailed steps to replicate in the classroom, but there is plenty from which to build personalized exercises, if all you require is a springboard. Morice's sharp sense of humor and depth of human understanding make this text suitable for students of virtually all ages. |