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Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language 2nd Edition
Author(s): Barbara Chatton (Author)
- Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
- Publication Date: 13 Jan. 2010
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1591586976
- ISBN-13: 9781591586975
Book Description
This second edition of Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive list of poetry anthologies, poetic picture books, and poetic prose works in a wide variety of subject areas. While it maintains the original edition’s focus on ideas and resource lists for integration of poetry into all areas of the curriculum, it is thoroughly revised to cover current issues in education and the wealth of new poetry books available.
The book is organized by subject areas commonly taught in elementary and middle schools, and, within these, by the national standards in each area. Numerous examples of poetry and poetic prose that can be used to help students understand and appreciate aspects of the standard are listed. A sampling of units that arise from groups of works, writing and performance ideas, and links across the curriculum is also included. While many teaching ideas and topics provide references to the standards they meet, this title is unique in starting with those standards and making links across them.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This edition retains much of the same format as the 1st edition but new poetry has been added and new activities result. This would be a great addition to the teaching collection of most school libraries. –ARBA
With the emphasis in most schools on improving literacy, fluency, and reading and writing test scores, this book is extremely valuable…. Because all teachers must incorporate writing into their teaching, having relevant poetry for their curriculum and ideas on how to use it, will make this book popular…. Many of these books may have been missed when they were first published, and including them in one source will make filling the gaps in the library collection much easier…. Highly recommended. –Library Media Connection
