Froggy About Teaching

This deck of boom cards is
focused on the different types of poems. Can you imagine that there are so many
types of poems? Matthew takes 15 basic types of poems and defines and describes
each one in the teaching frames.

Matthew knows much about poems
because he is a published poet.

I have read some of his poems. To
say that his poems are deeply moving and beautiful means little until you have
read them yourself. He has a blog where he has some of his poems. Take some
time and read them, then you will understand what I mean. Selected Poems by Matthew E. Forman.

What were we talking about, oh, Boom
Cards. Then, the teaching frames go into the different poem patterns and give
examples of these patterns. Then students practice choosing, matching,
identifying patterns, poems samples, descriptions, and definitions.

A positive benefit of the Boom
Cards are that it is self-correcting, so students know if they are choosing the
correct answer.

Product Review: Poetry Genres: Characteristics and Most Commonly Used Figurative Language Boom Cards

The teaching frames in this deck takes
the characteristics and figurative language and defines and describes what each
is. Then students will show what they have learned in a variety of ways. They
will choose characteristics that go with the poem description, the figurative language
to the characteristic, samples to poet types, and more. The students get the
opportunity to learn characteristics and figurative language.

Teachers, the benefit of allowing
your students to use this deck of cards is that you can track student progress.
Yay, save some time!

Teacher-author, Matthew Forman, ELA in Middle School, has created a digital resource that is a deck of Boom Cards. In fact, it is several sets of Boom Cards that he has bundled together, Literary Genres: The Prose and Poetry Bundle of Boom Cards.