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Reading Poetry in the Middle Grades: 20 Poems and Activities That Meet the Common Core Standards and Cultivate a Passion for Poetry
You'd like to teach poetry with confidence and passion, but let's face it: poetry can be intimidating to both you and your students. Here is the book that takes the fear factor out of poetry and shows you how to use this powerful genre to spark student engagement and meet language arts requirements. Award-winning poet Paul B. Janeczko is the master for creating anthologies...more
Paperback, 187 pages
Published
January 13th 2011
by Heinemann Educational Books
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Seems to help lead the instructor through the leading of the poem in a group
So for each poem, the author has these sections:
Before Reading the Poem - "Why I Admire This Poem, Companion Poem, Special Words to Work Through")
First Reading: Meeting the Poem - background for the facilitator
Close Reading: Getting to Know the Poem - what to pay attention to ("Noticing Line Breaks, Noticing Mood, Noticing Figurative Language")
After Reading: Knowing the Poem Forever ("Say it Out Loud, Write About It, Iss...more
So for each poem, the author has these sections:
Before Reading the Poem - "Why I Admire This Poem, Companion Poem, Special Words to Work Through")
First Reading: Meeting the Poem - background for the facilitator
Close Reading: Getting to Know the Poem - what to pay attention to ("Noticing Line Breaks, Noticing Mood, Noticing Figurative Language")
After Reading: Knowing the Poem Forever ("Say it Out Loud, Write About It, Iss...more
I can't wait to share these poems and activities with my students. I'm already collecting photos of abandoned farmhouses to inspire an opening discussion of "Abandoned Farmhouse." This is really an amazing collection, not just of poems but of solid teaching strategies.
A useful book. Janeczko provides plans and tools for making some sophisticated poems (e.g. "The Wreck of the Hesperus") accessible for middle-schoolers. His lessons are common-core aligned, too.
Great strategies for incorporating poetry into your classroom! I would definitely recommend this to my fellow English teachers :)
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Paul B. Janeczko is a poet and teacher and has edited more than twenty award-winning poetry anthologies for young people, including STONE BENCH IN AN EMPTY PARK, LOOKING FOR YOUR NAME, SEEING THE BLUE BETWEEN, and A POKE IN THE I, which was an American Library Association Notable Book.
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