Using Poetry in the Classroom Engaging Students in Learning

Here, Ross Burkhardt explains how to reach students through poetry and how to help them develop their own appreciation for it. Drawing on the author's rich experience as a middle school language arts teacher, Using Poetry in the Classroom presents a comprehensive approach that focuses on both the how and the why of teaching poetry. 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, this book teaches all aspects of poetry_composing, memorizing, reciting, interpreting, listening, reading, and publishing. Includes: _Burkhardt, Ross M. is the author of 'Using Poetry in the Classroom Engaging Students in Learning', published 0008 under ISBN 9781578863396 and ISBN 1578863392.