Full Description
Here, Ross Burkhardt explains how to reach students through poetry and how to help them develop their own appreciation for it. Drawing on the author's rich experience as a middle school language arts teacher, Using Poetry in the Classroom presents a comprehensive approach that focuses on both the how and the why of teaching poetry. This book offers explicit descriptions on how to deliver specific poetry lessons that will develop academic skills such as reading, writing, and critical thinking. Divided into three sections, this book teaches all aspects of poetry—composing, memorizing, reciting, interpreting, listening, reading, and publishing.
Includes:
·A range of effective strategies for instruction
·Classroom-tested examples
·Descriptions of how to teach poetry
·Suggestions on how to introduce, engage students in, and help students learn the essentials of poetry reading and writing
·Reflections from former students
This book is intended for teachers, teacher educators, and professors with an interest in language arts.
Contents
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 Part I: Before Class
Chapter 5 Why Poetry?
Chapter 6 The Teacher as Poet
Part 7 Part II: In the Classroom
Chapter 8 Memorizing and Reciting
Chapter 9 Composing and Publishing
Chapter 10 Discussing and Interpreting
Chapter 11 The Process of Student Poetry
Chapter 12 Back to the Beginning
Part 13 Part III: Beyond the Classroom
Chapter 14 Cross-Curricular Poetry
Chapter 15 Poetry Teachers at Work
Chapter 16 Reflections from the Classroom
Chapter 17 Appendix: Full Text of Classroom Poems by Braley, Burkhardt, and Lazarus
