This book offers teachers everything needed to inspire students to write and experience poetry. It is a truly comprehensive guide combining the rich history of poetry with sample poems and simple, ready to use activities. Based on the experiences of two master teachers with a love of poetry, teachers will find everything they need to make poetry a major part of language learning. From reading aloud to increasing word power to assessment techniques, this book answers all questions around poetry in the classroom. A bibliography of the very best children's poetry anthologies and books rounds out this incomparable resource. This remarkable book is jam-packed with original ideas that will inspire children of all ages to learn and grow with all forms of poetry.

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Pembroke Publishing Ltd .

Bill Moore is a teacher, actor, writer, director, and poet who has worked with students, teachers and audiences throughout North America and England. His plays, poems, articles and stories have been published extensively and he has appeared frequently on stage, screen, and radio. David Booth is Coordinator of Elementary Programs at OISE/University of Toronto. For more than 25 years he has worked with teachers in creating, applying, and evaluating approaches to how children learn to read and write. As a classroom teacher, consultant, speaker, and writer he has delighted thousands with his energy, enthusiasm, and commitment. He has given hundreds of speeches and workshops throughout North America, Australia, and England and has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs. David Booth is a university professor, author and anthologist of more than thirty books. His lives in Toronto, Ontario. Kady MacDonald Denton has illustrated numerous children's titles, including Before I Go to Sleep, 'Til All the Stars Have Fallen and A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, which won the Governor General's Award. She lives in Peterborough, Ontario.