Poetry Goes to SchoolThis comprehensive resource is a must-have for teachers who want to fill their classrooms with poetry. 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 children in reading, writing, role playing, and the arts. Assessment techniques for supporting the poetry program complement this highly readable volume. Stimulate creativity and imagination and learn to create a "culture of poetry" that demonstrates the power of words and strengthens the language lives of children. |
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Poetry Goes to School: From Mother Goose to Shel Silverstein Bob Barton,David Booth Limited preview - 2003 |
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acrostic anthologies Bob Barton chants clip clop Clip clop Clip clop create David Booth Dennis Lee Eve Merriam example explore eyes Fal de ral favorite feelings Flying-Man free verse Grace Nichols Green Natasha Green haiku hear Hinkumdooby round ideas illustrated Jack Prelutsky James Reaney lambs to sell language lines list poem lives look Michael Rosen Mother Goose Naomi Shihab Nye Natasha Green Natasha night nursery rhymes Old Roger old woman patterns Pembroke Publishers picture piece play poem makers poetic poets pop-bottles Quentin Blake questions read aloud read poems read the poem remember rhythm riddles sea timeless sea shape share Shel Silverstein Sheree Fitch sing snow fleas songs sounds star story street students read talk tall oaktrees teacher timeless sea timeless tongue twisters tree Twinkle voices What’s wind wordplay words worry write poems
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Page 5 - One, I love, Two, I love, Three, I love, I say, Four, I love with all my heart, And five, I cast away ; Six, he loves, Seven, she loves, Eight, they both love ; Nine, he comes, Ten, he tarries, Eleven, he courts, Twelve, he marries ; Thirteen wishes, Fourteen kisses, All the rest little witches.