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Tables of Contents for Easy Poetry Lessons That Dazzle and Delight
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
8
10
Creating a Poetry-Rich Classroom
10
15
Poetry Booklists
22
3
What Poetry Is All About
25
22
Imagery
27
4
Looking Down in the Rain
29
1
Barbara Juster Esbensen
Until I Saw the Sea
30
1
Lilian Moore
Group Poems
31
2
On the Playground
32
1
Mary Dunn's first grade
Poems for Two Voices
33
2
Fishes
34
1
Georgia Heard
Dialogue Poems
35
2
Talking to the Horse Trainer
36
1
Nancy Springer
List Poems
37
2
Wasps
38
1
Dorothy Aldis
Sound of Water
38
1
Mary O'Neill
Concrete Poems
39
2
Whee
40
1
Robert Froman
Dis Re Appearer
40
1
Robert Froman
Narrative Poems
41
2
A Brief Romance
42
1
David Harrison
Simile
43
2
First Snow
44
1
Marie Louise Allen
Some People
44
1
Rachel Field
Metaphor
45
2
Metaphor
46
1
Eve Merriam
Clucking Away the Day
46
1
David Harrison
Playing with Words
47
22
Onomatopoeia
49
2
bell
50
1
Valerie Worth
Alliteration
51
3
The Meal
53
1
Karla Kuskin
Assonance
54
4
Polliwogs
56
1
Kristine O'Connell George
First Bird of Spring
57
1
David Harrison
Arranging Words to Support Meaning
58
4
The Turtle
60
1
Arnold Spilka
One Thing on My Mind
61
1
David Harrison
Changing Tempo to Support Meaning
62
2
Martin Luther King
63
1
Myra Cohn Livingston
Sea Gull
63
1
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Making Up Words
64
3
Outdoor Song Which Has to Be Sung in the Snow
65
1
A. A. Milne
The Man From Bottamus
66
1
David Harrison
Rhythm
67
2
Love
68
1
David Harrison
Patterns of Poetry
69
22
The Foot
71
3
The Couplet (easy rhyme)
74
2
When Little Frogs Hop
75
1
Arnold Spilka
The Crocus
75
1
Walter Crane
Polar Bear
75
1
Gail Kredenser
The Cow
75
1
Ogden Nash
The Limerick
76
3
The Music Master
78
1
John Ciardi
The Old Man With a Beard
78
1
Edward Lear
The Ballad Stanza
79
2
A Wee Little Worm
80
1
James Whitcomb Riley
The Vulture
80
1
Hilaire Belloc
The Long Ballad Stanza
81
3
River Winding
82
1
Charlotte Zolotow
The Little Man
82
1
Hughes Mearns
The Lizard
83
1
John Gardner
A Sad Tale
83
1
David Harrison
The Short Ballad Stanza
84
2
Beside the Line of Elephants
85
1
Edna Becker
Who Has Seen the Wind?
85
1
Christina Rosetti
The 8-Line Stanza
86
2
A Stripeless Tiger
87
1
Arnold Spilka
The Refrain
88
3
One Day When We Went Walking
89
1
Valine Hobbs
This One Night of the Year
90
1
David Harrison
Finding Ideas
91
15
Making Associations
92
2
The Perfect Diet
93
1
David Harrison
Figures of Speech
94
2
My Advice
95
1
David Harrison
How Willy Grew
95
1
David Harrison
Sleuthing for Ideas
96
2
Bob and Me
97
1
Jennie McGraw
Grandma's House
97
1
Anna Steury
Hey, It's Reba!
97
1
Jennifer Wilkinson
Writing About Memories
98
3
Another
99
1
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Leaving Corky
100
1
David Harrison
Writing About How We Feel
101
3
Since Hanna Moved Away
102
1
Judith Viorst
When I Was Lost
103
1
Dorothy Aldis
Writing About Nature
104
2
Breakers
105
1
Lillian Morrison
Revising Poems
106
9
Sequence
108
1
Content
109
1
Rhythm
110
1
Interest
111
1
Pet Words and Cliches
112
1
Title
113
2
My Cat
114
1
Barbara Juster Esbensen
References
115
1
Glossary
116
10
Acknowledgments
126