Let's Poem: The Essential Guide to Teaching Poetry in a High-Stakes, Multimodal World (Language and Literacy Series) - Softcover

Dressman, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807751391 ISBN 13: 9780807751398

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2010

Synopsis

This cutting-edge guide presents multiple approaches to teaching poetry at the middle and high school levels. The author provides field-tested activities with detailed how-to instructions, as well as advice for how educators can “justify” their teaching within a high-stakes curriculum environment. Let’s Poem will show pre- and inservice teachers how to preserve the fun of poetry while also developing critical writing and analysis skills, how to introduce students to the basic formal elements of classic and contemporary poetry, and how to expand their repertoires through the use of digital technology and the Internet. With an urban and multicultural focus, chapters cover choral reading of poetry, writing about race, jazz poetry and other cultural forms, hip-hop and spoken word poetry, multimodal “remixing” of canonical poems, the use of poems from international settings and authors, and more.

Book features:

• Field-tested activities accompanied by step-by-step instructions, student writing samples, and teacher comments.
• Ways to extend and adapt lessons for diverse groups.
• Annotated online resources, including a book website with links to all sites in the book and to a social networking group.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Dressman is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently also an editor of Research in the Teaching of English. Join the author online at letspoemresources.ning.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807751391
• ISBN 13: 9780807751398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128