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: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752423390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

The Works

Author: Paul Cookson
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9781447273493
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This edition published 2010; reissued 2014.

On a Snow-Melting Day

Author: Buffy Silverman
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1541578139
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
The world comes to life on a snow-melting day.

Poems for Children to Enjoy - And Teachers Too

Author: Eleanor McLeod
Publisher: Exposure Publishing
ISBN: 9781905363490
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
This collection of poems is ideal for the primary classroom as it covers seasonal topics such as Harvest, Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night, Christmas, Pancake Day, Easter and many others. There are also poems about the weather and about a variety of creatures which could be used to support the curriculum. Most of them have already been enjoyed by Eleanor McLeods discerning young pupils. Using poems such as these as a starting point for learning can be fun and informative.Eleanor McLeod is from Swansea, Wales and it was when she began her Primary School teaching career in 1966 that she started writing poems for her pupils. When she decided to change direction and become a professional actress she continued to write poems, stories and dramatic monologues. In 1984 after the birth of her son Thomas, she returned to the classroom where all the old favourites and many new ones were tried and enjoyed once again.As a teacher of the LAMDA Speech and Drama syllabus and a member of the LAMDA Examining board and a adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals she realises how welcome and useful a collection of poems like this will be to teachers and performers.

The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems

Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 0763681687
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
Toast a marshmallow, be a tree in winter, read braille — Paul B. Janeczko and Richard Jones invite you to enjoy an assortment of poems that inform and inspire. Today I walked outside and spied a hedgehog on the hill. When she and I met eye to eye, she raised up straight and still. Be they practical (how to mix a pancake or how to bird-watch) or fanciful (how to scare monsters or how to be a snowflake), the poems in this book boast a flair and joy that you won’t find in any instruction manual. Poets from Kwame Alexander to Pat Mora to Allan Wolf share the way to play hard, to love nature, and to be grateful. Soft, evocative illustrations will encourage readers to look at the world with an eye to its countless possibilities. Contributors include: Kwame Alexander Calef Brown Rebecca Kai Dotlich Margarita Engle Ralph Fletcher Douglas Florian Helen Frost Martin Gardner Charles Ghigna Nikki Grimes Anna E. Jordan Karla Kuskin Irene Latham J. Patrick Lewis Marjorie Maddox Elaine Magliaro Pat Mora Christina Rossetti Monica Shannon Marilyn Singer Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Waters April Halprin Wayland Steven Withrow Allan Wolf

Death Coming Up the Hill

Author: Chris Crowe
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054430215X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
Douglas Ashe keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the escalating war in Vietnam, assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend, his parents' separation, and a longed-for sister.

Things We Do

Author: Sylvia Vardell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937057329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description