Poetry Goes to School: From Mother Goose to Shel Silverstein - Softcover

This comprehensive resource is a must-have for teachers who want to fill their classrooms with poetry. Based on years of working with poems, children and teachers, the two authors have gathered their rich and extensive collection of poetry and teaching strategies into a meaningful, manageable programme. With descriptions of poetic genres, lessons and teaching tools, sample poems and ideas for sharing and exploration, this book will inspire, inform and entertain. You can 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 programme complement this highly readable volume. Stimulate creativity and imagination and learn to create a culture of poetry that demonstrates the power of worlds and strengthens the language lives of children.

Bob is a graduate of Hamilton Teacher's College and McMaster University and has experience working in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary classrooms as a teacher, language arts consultant, arts coordinator, governments education officer, and lecturer. For the past eighteen years, he's been working as an artist and storyteller in schools with Prologue to the Performing Arts and Learning Through the Arts -- Royal Conservatory of Music. He is also an instructor of dramatic arts in continuing education at the University of Toronto. Bob says that he became a teacher because he wanted an opportunity to work in a way that allowed him to be creative. His areas of specialty are storytelling, drama, and poetry. He is the author of several picture books, story collections, nonfiction books, and textbooks. Bob is married with two children and five grandchildren. He enjoys cooking, reading, and gardening. David Booth is Coordinator of Elementary Programs at OISE/University of Toronto. For more than 25 years he has worked with teachers in creating, applying, and evaluating approaches to how children learn to read and write. As a classroom teacher, consultant, speaker, and writer he has delighted thousands with his energy, enthusiasm, and commitment. He has given hundreds of speeches and workshops throughout North America, Australia, and England and has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs.