Product Description: How do we read a poem? What can we teach from a poem we love? How can we name what poets do in order to inform our writing, our teaching?In their staff development work with teachers, Nick Flynn and Shirley McPhillips have often encountered these and similar questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Book by Ada, Alma Flor, Harris, Violet J., Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Product Description: The list or catalog poem is one of the simplest ways for beginners to approach the writing of free verse. In order to help teachers use this form as a tool in the classroom, Fagin's seminal guide defines list poetry, traces its lineage to ancient times, and offers writing ideas, teaching advice, and samples of student poems...read more

Product Description: This work explores the process that two elementry school teachers went through in order to teach poetry to 48 children in their multi-age, rural classroom. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)