Powerful Poetry: Read, Write, Rejoice, Recite Poetry All Year

The power of poetry is at your fingertips!

Experience poetry like never before with this comprehensive book by Adrienne Gear. This book offers everything you need to bring poetry to life in your classroom and help your students experience the beauty, power, and pleasure of a poem.

Outlining the many benefits of integrating poetry into your literacy program, including building reading, writing, and speaking skills, nurturing creativity, and celebrating language, Powerful Poetry provides practical, enjoyable lessons for integrating poetry into your year-long literacy program and engaging ways to introduce poetic structure, language, tools, and devices.

Inside, you will find anchor books, anchor poems, step-by-step lessons, student samples, reproducible templates, graphic organisers, assessment rubrics and more. Ideal for new and experienced teachers who are looking to bring the power of poetry into their classroom.