Using Poetry in the Classroom - Engaging Students in Learning

Informationen zum Autor By Ross M. Burkhardt - Foreword by Glenna Sloan Klappentext 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, it teaches all aspects of poetry_composing, memorizing, reciting, interpreting, listening, reading, and publishing. Zusammenfassung 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! it teaches all aspects of poetry_composing! memorizing! reciting! interpreting! listening! reading! and publishing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Ross M. Burkhardt, Ross M./ Sloan Burkhardt, Burkhardt Ross M.
• Assisted by: Glenna Sloan (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2006
• EAN: 9781578863396
• ISBN: 978-1-57886-339-6
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; English, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: English Literature, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General