Even More Poems for Children to Enjoy and Teachers Too

Author: Eleanor Mcleod
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781803691152
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Eleanor McLeod is a well-established writer of poetry for children and her first two anthologies have also been welcomed by teachers as they include poems that are suitable for each school term. In this new anthology there are still sections for different times of the year but also sections on the natural world, families and travel. Initially aimed at Primary school children there are some thoughtful poems that would appeal to older pupils. As a teacher herself her connection with her young readers makes them relevant and entertaining.

More Poems for Children to Enjoy - and Teachers Too!

Author: Eleanor Mc Leod
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906628192
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Following the enthusiastic reception for her first collection of poems, Eleanor McLeod has now written this second book, full of poems for the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms, as well as a lively selection on a variety of subjects, which will certainly be useful for teachers as well as appealing to her young readers who have already enjoyed the rhymes and structures, use of words and images of her imaginative verse. A review in "SPEECH & DRAMA," the journal of the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama, of the first book said: ..".a delightful selection of verse...they are immensely accessible, written with simple clarity and with the majority in a rhyming format and with metrical form. They are indeed for children to enjoy ....having some neat insights and observations. (She) has a sharp ear for the way children respond to poetry, consequently they should be read aloud to be fully appreciated, not just at school but in the family." So, here is the second collection!

Wishes, Lies, and Dreams

Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060955090
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout with pleasure. In this vivid account, Koch describes his inventive methods for teaching these children how to create poems and gives numerous examples of their work. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams is a valuable text for all those who care about freeing the creative imagination and educating the young.

A Child's Garden of Verses

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description

Collected Poems for Children

Author: Charles Causley
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 9780330389808
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Charles Causley's poetry combines a traditional lyrical element with a knowledge of children and their lives/loves/fears/games that is totally up to date. Here are 228 poems divided into eleven sections such as Charm and Flower, Season & Festival, Myth and Fable.

Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do!

Author: Kalli Dakos
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439107823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
In this delicious companion volume to If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand, thirty-seven poems and miniplays celebrate elementary school life and the funny, poignant, wondrous, and telling moments that can happen only in a classroom.

She Walks in Beauty

Author: Caroline Kennedy
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401325955
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life's journey. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it's falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old, She Walks in Beauty is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.

Poems are Teachers

Author: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325096537
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
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."

Making Your Own Days

Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684824388
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
From the winner of the Bollingen Prize in poetry and author of the classic bestseller "Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?" comes a unique, highly entertaining book for anyone who wants to be a better reader and writer of poetry.

Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?

Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307765105
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
First published to enormous acclaim in 1973, this book became a classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others--and then shows how it maybe taught so as to help children write poetry of their own. For this edition, the author has written a new introduction and a special afterword for teachers.