Reading Poetry in the Middle Grades

Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325027104
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
"As teachers today, everything we teach has to be turbo-charged with skills and the promise of advancing our students academically. Here's the cool thing: poetry can get you there. It is inherently turbo-charged. Poets distill a novel's worth of content and emotion in twenty lines. The literary elements and devices you need to teach are all there, powerful and miniature as a Bonsai tree." -Paul B. Janeczko You'd like to teach poetry with confidence and passion, but let's face it: poetry can be intimidating to both you and your students. Here is the book that takes the fear factor out of poetry and shows you how to use this powerful genre to spark student engagement and meet language arts requirements. Award-winning poet Paul B. Janeczko is the master for creating anthologies for pre-teen and adolescent readers, and here he's chosen 20 contemporary and classic selections with step-by-step, detailed lessons for investigating each poem from the inside out. Kids learn to become active readers of poetry, using graphic organizer worksheets to help them jump over their fear and dive into personal, smart, analytical responses. There's no better genre than poetry for helping students gain perspective on their own identities and their own worlds, and Paul provides a space on each reproducible poem for private thoughts, questions, feelings, and ideas. Your students will discover what each poem means to them. The 20 poems in this collection were chosen for their thought-provoking topics; compelling real-world themes that lead to conversation and collaboration in middle school classrooms. And by showing you how the poems and activities address the common core standards for English Language Arts (complete with a sample chart linking the poems to the standards), Paul provides a clear understanding of how you can "get there" using poetry. You can cultivate a passion for poetry in your classroom. Take the journey with Paul B. Janeczko and grow in confidence with your students, meeting some standards along the way.

Produce Wagon

Author: Roy Scheele
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623197X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
The poems in Produce Wagon explore the vast and varied circumstances of the human experience. Roy Scheele delves into his love for his wife in “Remembrances,” the opening poem from his first chapbook, and “Driving after Dark”; his fascination with the natural world in poems such as “How the Fox Got Away” and “Late Autumn Woods”; his appreciation of his family in “A Kitchen Memory” and “The Long Rise”; and his fondness for stories in “The Carny Circuit” and “In the Clear.” In these and the other poems in the collection, Scheele uses a variety of traditional verse forms as well as free verse and syllabics, carefully fitting the form of each poem to his subject matter. Though most of the poems are set in Nebraska and neighboring states, there is a universality to the subjects Scheele addresses. In these poems anywhere is everywhere.

Awakening the Heart

Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, s, t.

Living Voices

Author: Jaime R. Wood
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Offers middle school teachers lesson plans for multicultural poetry that focus on key concepts such as symbolism, personification, characterization, and theme. Features three living poets: African-American Nikki Giovanni, Chinese-American Li Young-Lee, and Latina Pat Mora. Includes examples of student writing and graphic organizers.

Opening a Door

Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780439332071
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Shows how to teach poetry with confidence, offering poems of interest to young people which are accompanied by a detailed lesson for exploring the work, including background on the poet, response sheets, and graphic organizers.

Poems for Building Reading Skills Levels 6-8

Author: Timothy Rasinski
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9781425802400
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Grab the interest of 6th-8th grade readers with poems presented in a fun new light! Coauthored by well-known fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this incredible book for Grades 6-8 encourages students to read and perform playful, original content written in student voices that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages help readers build fluency, comprehension, and poetry skills. Each book also includes an Audio CD that can be used to support fluency and comprehension, as well as an interactive whiteboard-compatible Teacher Resource CD that can be used to support literacy skills. 144pp. plus 2 CDs

2009 Poetry and Stories by 6th Grade Students of Fairfield Middle School

Author: Ann Gookin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781421891262
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description

Teaching Poetry, Embracing Perspectives

Author: Sharon Discorfano
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 147583537X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
This book serves as a practical guide, for teachers of middle-school students as well as higher grade levels, that provides clear and fully-developed lesson plans and activities that use the teaching of poetry reading and writing as a vehicle for developing students’ own creativity and appreciation for diversity. The combination of theory and practice sets this book apart from other books, in addition to an original four-step method of making sense of poems. The book is divided into two parts: the first focuses on the critical reading of poems; the second focuses on the writing of poems, using different forms. Both work towards “the bigger picture” of developing students’ ability to engage in respectful discourse and to view multiple perspectives as enriching rather than competing.

Planet Middle School

Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599902842
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.

Poetry 2006 by 6th Grade Students of Fairfield Middle School

Author: Fairfield Middle School
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 9781595408860
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"I write to discover my soul...I read to discover yours." The poems you are about to read are written and selected by sixth graders from the Fairfield Middle School in Fairfield, Iowa. These students experimented with many types of poems, including tanka, cinquain, haiku, acrostic, bio, concrete, diamante, ocean research, magazine haiku, couplets, title down, color poems, holiday, and limericks. They did a wonderful job creating poems that expressed who they really are, and I'm proud of their willingness to share this part of themselves with others. I hope you enjoy reading their work as much as I have. They should be very proud of their accomplishments. I am also thrilled for my students to have this opportunity to share their poetry with the world! Ann Gookin, 6th Grade Language Arts Teacher Communication is vital in today's society. It comes in many forms these days, from conversing to e-mail. One form of communication is writing, and one form of writing is poetry. Poetry doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves in this fast-paced world. It is a form of writing that is personal and demands time to read it. It needs to be understood or felt by the reader. It can represent self-exploration for the author, while it can open feelings in the reader. The poem becomes the symbol of communication on many levels to many people. We hope these poems will communicate to the readers in some meaningful way, as they are read. This collection of poetry was created by the 6th grade students of Fairfield Middle School. It got started when a fifth grade student brought his poem home to his mother to read. His poem had been published in a book like this one. His mother is one of our sixth grade Language Arts/ Reading teachers. She saw it as an exciting project for the sixth graders at FMS. The rest is, as they say... history. This book of poetry communicates to all that take the time to read it. Those who contributed their work hope you will let their poems communicate to you. The collection of poems in this book started by sharing, and we hope you will share it with others, as you enjoy it yourself. Gary Henry, FMS Principal