Provides guidance for teaching poetry, covering such aspects as how to read a poem, how to read a poem out loud, how to generate successful discussions, and what not to do when teaching a poem.
how to help kids become skilled, passionate, habitual, critical readers
Atwell, Nancie
2016
"... show[s] how to teach reading as a personal art-a way to develop passionate, critical readers for life-and how to build a schoolwide reading culture on self-selected, voluminous reading ..."--Amazon.
new understandings about writing, reading, and learning
Atwell, Nancie
1998
The author describes what she has learned about teaching, writing, and reading over twenty-five years as an English teacher, focusing on her experiences after she freed herself and students from a regimented curriculum.
Presents more than two hundred poems, grouped by themes such as gender, the natural world, growing up, and "the larger world, " along with 150 five-to-ten-minute lessons.
