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Outspoken!

Sara Holbrook , Michael Salinger

Pub Date: 10/3/2006
Product Type: BOOK WITH DVD
Grade: 6th - 12th

Call it poetic justice, but not only is performance poetry the hottest, hippest way for students to engage in literate behaviors, it’s also an effective vehicle for helping students meet language arts standards. In fact, poetry performance meets eight of NCTE and IRA’s twelve national standards for English instruction... more

Naming the World

Nancie Atwell

Pub Date: 12/19/2005
 Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 6th - 8th

Harnessing the power of poetry, Nancie Atwell's Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons empowers adolescents to make sense of their personal place in the world while honing their critical reading and writing skills. Naming the World's 200+ poems and accompanying five-to-ten-minute lessons are used by Nancie every day to jumpstart... more

Atwell's Minilessons Bundle

Nancie Atwell

Pub Date: 12/19/2005
 Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 6th - 8th

Naming the World and Lessons That Change Writers Best implemented as a springboard into the writing workshop, Naming the World is the natural companion to Atwell's best-selling writing curriculum resource, Lessons That Change Writers. In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie Atwell shares her writing mini-lessons in a book... more

Power and Poetry

James Mahoney , Jerry Matovcik

Pub Date: 9/21/2005
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - 12th

Poetry is one of the most powerful ways that people communicate their feelings. Jim Mahoney and Jerry Matovcik are going to prove to you that it can also be one of the most powerful ways to fully engage students in reading, writing, and analysis. In Power and Poetry, veteran teachers Mahoney and Matovcik discard the scary parts... more

Practical Poetry

Sara Holbrook

Pub Date: 1/13/2005
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 4th - 8th

This book is a gift for our teaching heads and our teaching hearts.—Janet AllenAre you searching for instruction that reinforces standards-based content in language arts, math, science, or social studies? That generates student interest? That promotes critical thinking? That doesn't sacrifice time in your curriculum? Then... more

A Surge of Language

Baron Wormser , David Cappella

Pub Date: 2/10/2004
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - 12th

Does anybody think harder about teaching poetry than these guys? . . . In my considered opinion, no one does it better, thinks harder about it, or writes as refreshingly on the topic as Wormser and Cappella. The book you hold in your hands is a marvel and an elixir. All language arts teachers at any level should memorize it.—Jeffrey... more

Brave New Voices

Jen Weiss , Scott Herndon

Pub Date: 9/25/2001
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - 12th

Over the last several years, YOUTH SPEAKS after-school poetry workshops have helped turn hundreds of student writers into passionate poets. And now, Jen Weiss, director of YOUTH SPEAKS New York, and Scott Herndon share some of the secrets of their success—enabling you to transform your poetry lessons into a dynamic learning... more