Poetry Teach Living Poets Lindsay Illich and Melissa Alter Smith Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers, giving advice on discovering new poets and reading contemporary poetry, as well as sharing sample lessons, writing prompts, and ways to become an engaged member of a professional learning community. This approach offers rich opportunities for students to improve critical reading and writing, opportunities for self-expression and social-emotional learning, and perhaps the most desirable outcome, the opportunity to fall in love with language and discover (or renew) their love of reading. The many poems included in Teach Living Poets are representative of the diverse poets writing today. 200 pp. | 2021 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814152614 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook ISBN: 9780814152621
Empowering Students’ Knowledge of Vocabulary
Lightning Paths 75 Poetry Writing Exercises Kyle Vaughn
This fun and practical book offers grades 3–5 teachers both the research and dayto-day practical activities that support a fascinating approach for empowering their students’ vocabulary. Students will develop a deeper understanding of how the English language works, enrich their vocabularies, and improve their reading and writing skills. Six chapters present definitions and playful examples (in poetry and prose) to teach antonyms, synonyms, acronyms (and many more “nyms”), similes, metaphors, idioms, shades of meaning, and word origins. Eight well-known children’s poets and authors, including two former US Young People’s Poets Laureate—Kenn Nesbitt and Margarita Engle—and world-renowned Jane Yolen, offer insights into language choices.
Lightning Paths features poetry writing exercises that, while they teach and utilize technique, also focus on and inspire the intuitive and imaginative qualities of poetry. Each exercise features a philosophical introduction that explains the nature of what the exercise aims for, the detailed exercise instructions, and a student example. The exercises themselves are divided into three sections: (1) exercises that focus on different types of imagery and different methods to generate fresh imagery; (2) exercises born out of unusual prompts and ideas aimed at engaging a writer’s experiences beyond poetry in the real world; and (3) exercises related to form or perhaps a reconsideration of what form might be or how it might function. Also included are introductions or essays related to imagery, inspiration, “leaping” poetry, and constrained writing.
166 pp. | 2020 | Grades 3–5 | ISBN 9780814113370 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814113387
121 pp. | 2018 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814128213 $22.36 member/$27.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814128237
Learning How Language Works, Grades 3–5 Mary Jo Fresch and David L. Harrison
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