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Overview
In this innovative resource, Nile Stanley offers you teaching techniques that transform reading from a two-dimensional world of boredom and frustration into a three-dimensional world of voice, movement, and artistic expression. He shows you how poetry supports the teaching of reading and allows students to relax and blossom. His mini-lessons and engaging activity poems provide standards-based reading instruction that also builds community, confidence, and enthusiasm. He includes a CD of sung and spoken poetry performed by noted children's poets and students to use as instructional models.Synopsis
In this innovative resource, Nile Stanley offers you teaching techniques that transform reading from a two-dimensional world of boredom and frustration into a three-dimensional world of voice, movement, and artistic expression. He shows you how poetry supports the teaching of reading and allows students to relax and blossom. His mini-lessons and engaging activity poems provide standards-based reading instruction that also builds community, confidence, and enthusiasm. He includes a CD of sung and spoken poetry performed by noted children's poets and students to use as instructional models.
Karen Leggett - Children's Literature
"Teaching is live-action poetry. It is a blend of art, craft, and caring." And Nile Stanley wants the blend to include more poetry. He is on a mission to convince teachers that poetry can be used to teach reading and then to help teach all subjects across the curriculum. Stanley is perhaps a bit too enthusiastic about the transformations in classroom behavior when poetry is introduced, but his arguments about using simple poetry to help new and struggling readers are compelling. There is a list of Dolch sight words along with games to help children learn these words. There are suggestions for using poetry to meet each of the standards identified by the National Council of Teachers of English. The chapter on performing poetry is especially interesting in its "page to stage" detail: choose "noisy" poetry for the youngest children; use simple poetry to develop fluency. There is even a rubric for good audience behavior ("Teachers need to take as proactive a stance about audience management as they do about classroom management.") The book includes an audio CD with readings of poems highlighted in the text. There are also several websites, including one by the author where students can publish both their written poems and video clips. The book is a perfect how-to for new teachers, offering step-by-step lessons in using poetry to teach phonics, fluency, word-attack skills, comprehension and vocabulary—as well as subjects like math and science. There are also plenty of poems, games and novel ideas to attract veteran teachers as well. 2004, Maupin House, Ages Adult.
Editorials
Children's Literature
"Teaching is live-action poetry. It is a blend of art, craft, and caring." And Nile Stanley wants the blend to include more poetry. He is on a mission to convince teachers that poetry can be used to teach reading and then to help teach all subjects across the curriculum. Stanley is perhaps a bit too enthusiastic about the transformations in classroom behavior when poetry is introduced, but his arguments about using simple poetry to help new and struggling readers are compelling. There is a list of Dolch sight words along with games to help children learn these words. There are suggestions for using poetry to meet each of the standards identified by the National Council of Teachers of English. The chapter on performing poetry is especially interesting in its "page to stage" detail: choose "noisy" poetry for the youngest children; use simple poetry to develop fluency. There is even a rubric for good audience behavior ("Teachers need to take as proactive a stance about audience management as they do about classroom management.") The book includes an audio CD with readings of poems highlighted in the text. There are also several websites, including one by the author where students can publish both their written poems and video clips. The book is a perfect how-to for new teachers, offering step-by-step lessons in using poetry to teach phonics, fluency, word-attack skills, comprehension and vocabulary—as well as subjects like math and science. There are also plenty of poems, games and novel ideas to attract veteran teachers as well. 2004, Maupin House, Ages Adult.—Karen Leggett