Poetry Goes to School
From Mother Goose to Shel Silverstein
Author: Bob Barton and David Booth
Format: 112 pp book
ISBN: 1551381613
Publisher: Pembroke Publishing 2004
Audience: Professional reference
Price: $42.00
This is a ‘must have’ for teachers who want to fill their classrooms with poetry! Based on years of working with poems, students and teachers in elementary schools, the authors have gathered their rich and extensive collection of poetry into a meaningful, manageable program. With descriptions of poetic genres, lessons and teaching tools, sample poems and ideas for sharing and exploration, this book will inspire, inform and entertain. Select from a wide range of response activities that will involve students in reading, writing, role-playing and The Arts. Assessment techniques for supporting the poetry program complement this highly readable book.
