"Here is an astonishingly generous gathering of poetic energies and imaginations aimed toward turning more and more classrooms into scenes of transformative engagement with the prime instrument of our humanity, language. The essential work of exploratory play with words is presented in heartening variety in its necessary wildness, surprising pleasures, gravitas, illumination. This book is a catalogue of invention: visionary, pragmatic, surprising, fun---useful because it's inspiring and vice versa. The poets' essays are themselves an affirmation of the vital presence of poetry in our culture, proof and promise, Q.E.D."---Joan Retallock, coeditor, Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, and author, The Poethical Wager --Book Jacket.

Essays on the craft and relevance of poetry by distinguished practitioners and teachers of the art

Poetry teaching is an art which gives life to the poetry in the class. It inspires the students to write poetry. Various techniques and activities, to make poetry teaching interesting, have been discussed at length in this book. Apart from this, literary devices have also been mentioned with examples.

Teaching Poetry is a guide to effective pedagogy for getting students interested and involved in talking and learning about poetry.

"Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach" is a comprehensive alternative to the full-class workshop approach to poetry writing instruction. In the five-canon approach, peer critique of student poems takes place in online environments, freeing up class time for writing exercises and lessons based on the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.

First Published in 1999. Based on the author's experience of teaching poetry to children for more thirty years, this book offers guidance on engaging young children minds in poetry in line with the Literacy Hour.

Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how Caribbean poetry connects with environmental issues. Written by literary experts with extensive classroom experience, this lively and accessible book is immersed in classroom practice, and examines: • popular aspects of Caribbean poetry, such as performance poetry; • different forms of Caribbean language; • the relationship between music and poetry; • new voices, as well as well-known and distinguished poets, including John Agard (winner of the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, 2012), Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and Derek Walcott; • the crucial themes within Caribbean poetry such as inequality, injustice, racism, ‘othering’, hybridity, diaspora and migration; • the place of Caribbean poetry on the GCSE/CSEC and CAPE syllabi, covering appropriate themes, poetic forms and poets for exam purposes. Throughout this absorbing book, the authors aim to combat the widespread ‘fear’ of teaching poetry, enabling teachers to teach it with confidence and enthusiasm and helping students to experience the rewards of listening to, reading, interpreting, performing and writing Caribbean poetry.

Written w/ classroom teachers in mind, this bk is a guide to the art of poetry & a focused approach to how to teach poetry. It focuses on two main issues: how poetry is defined, perceived, & taught, & how it can become more integrated into students' live

1.1 INTRODUCTION Education is the most powerful instrument to bring desirable changes in the students and the teacher is a change agent in the whole the process of education who prepares or trains the future generation to meet the challenges of modern society. Education helps in directing a person to do right things at right time at right place which makes more productive individual as well as the society. The future of the nation depends upon the quality of education. According to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, 2004), “The purpose of education is to ensure that all pupils acquires the knowledge, skills and values necessary for the cognitive development of learners to nurture the creative and emotional growth of learners, to oppose discrimination against any particular group in any manner or, in other words, leads towards and equitable society.” Language plays an important role for the transaction of knowledge through teaching learning process. “Language as a vehicle of communication is very crucial on the process of education it is through language that everything is taught and learnt in a majority of teaching learning including the classroom.”

Too often the teaching of poetry is divided into the reading of poetry and the writing of poetry. This division is strange and illogical because the two activities are not only linked, but intermeshed. This book will be an attempt to show how indispensable reading poetry is to writing it and vice versa. The text will be divided into three sections. The first section will be comprised of advice from his own experience on reading poetry to children at KS1 and KS2. The second section will comprise of case studies of children responding to poetry and will show how much children can actually understand. The last section will be comprised of a case study af children writing poems.