Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language

264 Pages·2010·1.34 MB·English

by  Barbara Chatton

Using Poetry Across the Curriculum

Using Poetry Across
the Curriculum
Learning to Love Language
Second Edition
Barbara Chatton
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Contents
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
Chapter1:PoetryandTheNationalStandardsforEducation 1
TheStandards 1
APaththroughtheStandards 2
DefiningPoetry 2
PoeticLanguage 5
LearningtoLoveLanguage 8
PlayingwithWords 8
SharingPoetry 10
WritingPoetry 10
PostingandSharingPoems 13
NationalPoetryMonth 14
LearningAboutthePoets 15
Anthologies 15
IndividualPoets 15
CreatingaPoetryCollection 17
Anthologies 17
Award-WinningPoets 18
AdditionalReadingsAboutthePoets 19
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TeachingPoetry 20
PoetryAwardWebSites 21
Chapter2:PoetryandtheLanguageArtsStandards 23
StandardOne:TheLanguageArts 23
Storytelling 23
BooksandReading 24
StandardTwo:ClassicPoetry 26
AnthologiesofNurseryRhymes 26
PictureBookNurseryRhymes 27
AnthologiesofClassicPoems 27
ClassicPoemsasTextsforPictureBooks 27
StandardTwo:RetellingtheClassics 29
RetellingNurseryRhymes 29
RetellingMythsandLegends 30
RetellingFablesandFolkTales 30
RetellingClassicPoems 31
StandardTwoUnit:Halloween 33
HalloweenPoetry 34
MoreScaryCharacters 35
StandardFour:LanguageConventions 35
LettersoftheAlphabet 36
Spelling 36
Punctuation 37
PartsofSpeech 37
Handwriting 37
StandardFive:PoeticForms 38
TerseVerse(HinkPinksorHinkyPinkies) 38
Couplets 38
Haiku 39
Limericks 39
MoreSmallPoems 39
ConcretePoems(ShapePoems) 39
Odes 40
Ballads 40
Sonnets 41
List/CatalogPoems 41
Acrostics 43
Letters,Notes,andPostcardPoems 43
PersonaPoems(MaskPoems) 45
Notebook,Diary,andJournalPoems 45
RecipePoems 46
Contents ix
Prayers 46
OtherFormsofPoetry 47
StandardSix:PoeticConventions—ImageryandFigurativeLanguage 47
Imagery 47
FigurativeLanguage 49
StandardSix:PoeticConventions—Sound 50
Rhyme 50
AlphabetBooksandAlliteration 51
Onomatopoeia(SoundEffectWords) 53
StandardNine:LanguageDiversity 54
StandardTen:PoetryinLanguagesOtherthanEnglish 55
PoetryinSpanishandEnglish 56
Chapter3:PoetryandtheScienceStandards 59
StandardOne:Science 59
StandardTwo:Inquiry 60
ToolsoftheScientist 60
StandardThree:PhysicalSciences 61
LiquidsandSolids:WaterandIce 62
LightandShadow 62
StandardFour:LifeSciences 63
Nature 64
Animals 66
PlantsandTrees 77
StandardFive:EarthandSpaceScience 80
Geology 80
DinosaursandFossils 81
Weather 83
WaterandtheWaterCycle 85
Astronomy 85
TheSeasons 86
StandardSix:ScienceandTechnology 90
InventorsandInventions 90
Machines 91
Buildings 91
StandardSeven:ScienceinPersonalandSocialPerspectives 92
EnvironmentalIssues 92