Life’s Literacy Lessons

Poems for Teachers

Steven L. Layne

      Squiggles.
      Indecipherable, incomprehensible;
      Foreign yet familiar.

      Cherub faces eyeing pages
      Filled to bursting with squiggles—
      A banquet set for voracious appetites.

      Prepare the meal with the utmost care,
      Serve it on fine china,
      Don’t forget the dessert.

Learning how to read shouldn’t hurt.

Teacher and poet Steven Layne delights and inspires with poems like “First Grade” as he takes poetic license with teachers’ daily lives. Here you’ll find 40 of the author’s favorite poems about literacy and teaching, guaranteed to touch the heart of anyone who has spent time in the classroom.

A special hardcover edition is also available.

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How We “Do” School

Poetic Possibilities: Using Poetry to Enhance Literacy Learning

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