Using Poetry across the Curriculum: A Whole Language Approach

Chatton, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0897747151 / ISBN 13: 9780897747158

Published by Greenwood, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Using Poetry across the Curriculum: A Whole Language Approach
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897747151
• ISBN 13: 9780897747158
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Watch what happens when you integrate poetry into math, science, language arts, and social studies. Student interest levels heighten. You bring new insights to these subjects and you help students develop an appreciation of the uniqueness of poetry as an art and as a form of communication. This book helps you find and use poetry to teach children to think and express themselves more clearly in all subjects. Each chapter in this how-to guide identifies poems and describes how they can be used to enhance specific classes or thematic units and suggests activities that relate to the class or theme. Also provided are bibliographic lists of the poems or collections used, plus additional sources of poetry.

About the Author

BARBARA CHATTON, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. She is a Dateline USA columnist for Book Links, a regular reviewer for School Library Journal, and has authored articles in Reading Teacher and Writing Teacher. Dr. Chatton is a member of the American Library Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, the International Reading Association, and the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling (NAPPS). In 1990, she received the Ellbogen Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Wyoming and was a Wyoming finalist in 1991 for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Professorship.