Explore PoetryAuthors: Donald H. Graves
Format: Paperback
Published: Heinemann, 1992

The Reading/Writing Teacher's Companion series unites the teaching of reading and writing for a more meaningful and productive process. Explore Poetry invites teachers to experiment with reading poetry aloud, "found" poems, writing poetry from prose, and acquiring poems through choral speaking. The "Actions" help teachers encourage a sense of play in the composing of poetry, focusing on passion and wonder, combining sound and sense, and transforming the common into the unusual. A concluding section invites ways of spreading poetry throughout the curriculum, integrating it with the study of science, history, and mathematics.