Teaching Poetry

Author : Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0325096538

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Poems are Teachers by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Pdf

Children's writer and poet Amy Ludwig VanDerwater leads us on an adventure through poetry, pointing out craft elements along the way that students can use to improve all their writing, from idea finding to language play. "Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small," Amy explains. "And, too, poems teach us how to write. Anything." This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher. Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet and two by students in grades 2 through 8, which serve as models to illustrate how poetry teaches writers to: find ideas, choose perspective and point of view, structure texts, play with language, craft beginnings and endings, choose titles. Students will learn how to replicate the craft techniques found in poetry to strengthen all writing, from fiction to opinion, from personal narrative to information. "Poets arrange words and phrases just as prose writers do, simply in tighter spaces," Amy argues. "In the tight space of poetry, readers can identify writing techniques after reading one page, not thirty pages."

Author : Albert B. Somers
Publisher : National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39076001976005

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Teaching Poetry in High School by Albert B. Somers Pdf

Describes the different resources that can be used to teach high school students about poetry.

Author : Amanda Naylor,Audrey Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415585675

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Teaching Poetry by Amanda Naylor,Audrey Wood Pdf

Teaching Poetry is a guide to effective pedagogy for getting students interested and involved in talking and learning about poetry.

Author : Sally Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925132633

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Teaching Poetry for Pleasure and Purpose by Sally Murphy Pdf

his book is designed to encourage and upskill teachers to introduce and explore poetry in the classroom with their students. Poetry has many proven benefits for learning outcomes and can help significantly in students' literacy journey. Dr Murphy's book is packed full of poem-driven activities and tips for engaging students with poetry. Dr Murphy says "As well as writing books, I am a poet. I love crafting poetry on all kinds of topics, and in a range of forms, both rhyming and unrhyming."

Author : Jacqueline Sweeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : OCLC:1151352349

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Teaching Poetry by Jacqueline Sweeney Pdf

Author : Sam M. Intrator,Megan Scribner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780787969707

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Teaching with Fire by Sam M. Intrator,Megan Scribner Pdf

Reclaim Your Fire "Teaching with Fire is a glorious collection of the poetry that has restored the faith of teachers in the highest, most transcendent values of their work with children....Those who want us to believe that teaching is a technocratic and robotic skill devoid of art or joy or beauty need to read this powerful collection. So, for that matter, do we all." ?Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities "When reasoned argument fails, poetry helps us make sense of life. A few well-chosen images, the spinning together of words creates a way of seeing where we came from and lights up possibilities for where we might be going....Dip in, read, and ponder; share with others. It's inspiration in the very best sense." ?Deborah Meier, co-principal of The Mission Hill School, Boston and founder of a network of schools in East Harlem, New York "In the Confucian tradition it is said that the mark of a golden era is that children are the most important members of the society and teaching is the most revered profession. Our jour ney to that ideal may be a long one, but it is books like this that will sustain us - for who are we all at our best save teachers, and who matters more to us than the children?" ?Peter M. Senge, founding chair, SoL (Society for Organizational Learning) and author of The Fifth Discipline Those of us who care about the young and their education must find ways to remember what teaching and learning are really about. We must find ways to keep our hearts alive as we serve our students. Poetry has the power to keep us vital and focused on what really matters in life and in schooling. Teaching with Fire is a wonderful collection of eighty-eight poems from such well-loved poets as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, and Pablo Neruda. Each of these evocative poems is accompanied by a brief story from a teacher explaining the significance of the poem in his or her life's work. This beautiful book also includes an essay that describes how poetry can be used to grow both personally and professionally. Teaching With Fire was written in partnership with the Center for Teacher Formation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Royalties from this book will be used to fund scholarship opportunities for teachers to grow and learn.

Author : Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781587299049

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Poets on Teaching by Joshua Marie Wilkinson Pdf

"Here is an astonishingly generous gathering of poetic energies and imaginations aimed toward turning more and more classrooms into scenes of transformative engagement with the prime instrument of our humanity, language. The essential work of exploratory play with words is presented in heartening variety in its necessary wildness, surprising pleasures, gravitas, illumination. This book is a catalogue of invention: visionary, pragmatic, surprising, fun---useful because it's inspiring and vice versa. The poets' essays are themselves an affirmation of the vital presence of poetry in our culture, proof and promise, Q.E.D."---Joan Retallock, coeditor, Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, and author, The Poethical Wager --Book Jacket.

Author : Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136180811

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Teaching Caribbean Poetry by Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles Pdf

Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how Caribbean poetry connects with environmental issues. Written by literary experts with extensive classroom experience, this lively and accessible book is immersed in classroom practice, and examines: • popular aspects of Caribbean poetry, such as performance poetry; • different forms of Caribbean language; • the relationship between music and poetry; • new voices, as well as well-known and distinguished poets, including John Agard (winner of the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, 2012), Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and Derek Walcott; • the crucial themes within Caribbean poetry such as inequality, injustice, racism, ‘othering’, hybridity, diaspora and migration; • the place of Caribbean poetry on the GCSE/CSEC and CAPE syllabi, covering appropriate themes, poetic forms and poets for exam purposes. Throughout this absorbing book, the authors aim to combat the widespread ‘fear’ of teaching poetry, enabling teachers to teach it with confidence and enthusiasm and helping students to experience the rewards of listening to, reading, interpreting, performing and writing Caribbean poetry.

Author : Kari Ellen Gade
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501732447

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The Structure of Old Norse "Dróttkvætt" Poetry by Kari Ellen Gade Pdf

The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the mystery of the origins of the drottkvett and its eventual demise in the fourteenth century.

Author : Gervase Phinn
Publisher : Crown House Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781845903756

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Teaching Poetry in the Primary Classroom by Gervase Phinn Pdf

When asked by the school inspector what he thought of poetry, an eleven year old replied that "it's all la-dida and daffodils, isn't it?" In his primary school the boy had come across very little poetry apart from nursery rhymes, snatches of rhyming verse and a few comic pieces and nonsense poems. Poetry to him was something arcane, not really related to his own life. He had studied no powerful, challenging, contemplative, arresting, quirky poems and had written very few poems himself. His teacher admitted that he was no English specialist, had received few ideas at college on the teaching of poetry and didn't really know where to start. As children progress through the primary school they need to be exposed to a rich diet of poetry and encouraged to read, perform and write it themselves. Providing a varied and stimulating environment is essential if is to flourish. In addition, children need specifi c guidance and ideas to start them off writing their own poems. This book, written by a former teacher and school inspector, and popular and widely published children's poet, offers an accessible, practical and structured programme for the teaching of this sometimes neglected aspect of the English curriculum.

Author : Kenneth Koch
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Aging
ISBN : UOM:39015072137865

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I Never Told Anybody by Kenneth Koch Pdf

Author : Kathy Koch, PhD
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780802497574

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Start with the Heart by Kathy Koch, PhD Pdf

Parenting strategies you can be proud of You know the feeling. You got frustrated, desperate, or overwhelmed and you reacted before you could think it through. Whether it’s a one-time thing or it becomes a habit, we all parent in ways we don’t like. But it doesn’t have to continue. Whether it’s bribery, yelling, counting to three, or threats of punishment you didn’t mean to make, reacting never feels good. But if you can learn to act with intentionality, you’ll feel better about your choices and be grateful for the results. Dr. Kathy Koch (pronounced “cook”), author of Screens and Teens and 8 Great Smarts, will teach you proven strategies for training your child’s heart and parenting in a way that honors God. She’ll help you move your child from, “I can’t, I won’t," to “I can, I will, and I did.” We can do better than “Because I said so.” or “No screen time for 3 days.” We can do better than mere behavior modification. We can change our children’s hearts and teach them to do what is good, godly, and right even when we’re not around. Once you’ve learned to put these motivation strategies in place there’s no more need to nag, you’ll be astounded at what your kids will do without being asked. Dr. Kathy doesn’t offer a quick-fix. Starting with the heart is all about changing what children believe in order to change their behavior. And learning to use this kind of motivation takes effort, consistency, and strategy, but it works. And it’s never too late! If you’re willing to commit to a little hard work up front, you’ll enjoy your kids, your life, and yourself much more when you learn to start with the heart.

Author : Sharon Creech
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 9780747557494

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Love That Dog by Sharon Creech Pdf

This is an utterly original and completely beguiling prose novel about a boy who has to write a poem, and then another, and then even more. Soon the little boy is writing about all sorts of things he has not really come to terms with, and astounding things start to happen.

Author : Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher : Scholastic Teaching Resources
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0439073464

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Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry by Paul B. Janeczko Pdf

Provides practical advice on the art of writing different forms of poetry.

Author : Lindsay Illich,Melissa Alter Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry, Modern
ISBN : 0814152619

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Teach Living Poets by Lindsay Illich,Melissa Alter Smith Pdf

Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers, giving advice on reading contemporary poetry, discovering new poets, and inviting living poets into the classroom, as well as sharing sample lessons, writing prompts, and ways to become an engaged member of a professional learning community. The #TeachLivingPoets approach, which has grown out of the vibrant movement and community founded by high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith and been codeveloped with poet and scholar Lindsay Illich, offers rich opportunities for students to improve critical reading and writing, opportunities for self-expression and social-emotional learning, and, perhaps the most desirable outcome, the opportunity to fall in love with language and discover (or renew) their love of reading. The many poems included in Teach Living Poets are representative of the diverse poets writing today.