Cullinan, Bernice E

A sample of poems by poets who have received the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Poetry for Children, including David McCord, Aileen Fisher, Karla Kuskin, Myra Cohn Livingston, Eve Merriam, John Ciardi, Lilian Moore, Arnold Adoff, Valerie Worth, and Barbara Esbensen.

Contains thirty-three strategies for using poetry in the elementary school classroom with each section providing a description of the strategy, vignettes telling how the strategy has worked, a list of more ways the strategy can be adapted, and examples of student work.

A collection of poems by various authors who have won the National Council of Teachers of English Award that have been chosen as favorites by young children.