Favorite Poetry Lessons: Grades 4-8Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Format: Paperback
Published: Scholastic, 1998

Believing that poetry should inspire and amuse rather than intimidate, Paul includes a far-reaching mix of model poems, from Walt Whitman's "I Hear American Singing" to his own "Ten Little Aliens." With each full-page reproducible poem, he provides suggestions for reading it aloud with students, discussing it, and using it as a model for kids to write individual and collaborative poems. Written in a conversational tone and packed with guidance, personal anecdotes, and student samples, Favorite Poetry Lessons is sure to make teaching poetry easier and more fun.