Product Review: The Poetic Genre: The Poetic Forms Boom Cards

Product Review: The Poetic Genre: The Poetic Forms Boom Cards

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. 

Product Review - Literary Genres: The Basics of Literary Genres: Poetry and Prose Boom Cards

Have you thought about how you are going to teach Literature and Poetry, especially to Middle School students? It is not easy! The Common Core Standards for Middle School says that students are to analyze a poem’s/literature’s form or structure. They are to do this analysis with evidence from the text. You see this and you think, this is way too hard! That is what I thought when I saw the standards. It gets you thinking more about how to teach these skills. To do this, the students should be able to identify the different literary genres and poetic forms. Okay, this is a good start. Once they can recognize the different types, then you can move them on to the breakdown of style – analysis.

Teacher-author, Matthew Forman, ELA in Middle School, has created a digital resource that will do this. This resource 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. Thank you, Matthew!

I am going to take each set that is a part of this bundle and give you some insights.

Let us begin with Literary Genres: The Basics of Literary Genres: Poetry and Prose Boom Cards.  

Matthew breaks down this set with sections. Each section has teaching frames, students then show what they have learned by identifying, matching or fill-in-the-blanks.

The students begin with the general level identifying prose and poetry in several ways. Then it takes them to the next level of subgenres. It is followed up with the students identifying text features, text types and descriptions. Then all is tied together (reviewed) and students show what they have learned by identifying, matching, or filling in blanks.

It is thorough, but what is even better is that this is all done with Boom Cards. The students will have fun learning and practicing the forms and structures of poetry and prose!

I'll be reviewing the other sets in Matthew's Bundle. Stayed tuned for more!

Froggy About Teaching - Debbie