Poetry Workshop for Middle School

Activities That Inspire Meaningful Language Learning

Michelle Ambrosini and Teresa M. Morretta

Discover how poetry workshop can encourage adolescent students to value their own writing and appreciate classic and contemporary poets. Backed with solid research and the authors’ own classroom observation, this book shows you how to design your own workshop — and presents activities in a user-friendly format that includes objectives, procedures, student samples, and poems for each.

Also provided are additional resources — such as a “poet’s toolbox” of types of poems and figures of speech, graphic organizers and assessment tools, a list of publishing opportunities, and poems by well-known poets — that can be used in small-group and whole-class settings.

© 2003 | 128 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-517-6 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-517-7

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