Using Poetry in the Classroom Engaging Students in Learning

"Drawing on the author's experience as a middle school language arts teacher, Using Poetry in the Classroom focuses on both the how and the why of teaching poetry and offers instructions for delivering specific poetry lessons that will develop such academic skills as reading, writing, and critical thinking. Divided into three sections, this book examines all aspects of poetry - composing, memorizing, reciting, interpreting, listening, reading, and publishing. This book is intended for teachers, teacher educators, and professors with an interest in language arts."--BOOK JACKET.Burkhardt, Ross M. is the author of 'Using Poetry in the Classroom Engaging Students in Learning', published 2006 under ISBN 9781578863419 and ISBN 1578863414.