Pass the Poetry, Please!

By Lee Bennett Hopkins and Hopkins

Book Overview

Recognizing children's natural delight in rhyme and wordplay, poet and teacher Lee Bennett Hopkins suggests ways for educators to use nursery rhymes, jump-rope jingles, and songs as springboards to the enjoyment of poetry. He also introduces twenty-four modern children's poets, including Nikki Giovanni, Shel Silverstein, and Carl Sandburg, through brief biographies and helpful bibliographies. This indispensable volume concludes with numerous activities--many suggested and successfully used by educators in the classroom-to get children excited about and involved in reading, writing, and enjoying poetry. Pass the Poetry, Please has been a staple in classrooms and libraries across the country for over twenty-five years and has proven itself an invaluable resource. This new edition-revised, enlarged, and updated-contains a wealth of new ideas for bringing children and poetry together. So turn the page and learn how you can pass the poetry

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064461998
• ISBN13: 9780064461993
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Looks like great resource for classroom use.

I am working on designing a year-long poetry project with 3rd graders and after persuing a few books from the local library, this is the one I decided to purchase. It is separated into helpful sections including some short introductions to child-friendly poets, an overview of different poetry forms, and also some ideas for writing projects with the children in the development of their own poetry. This book will be a rich resource in planning out my lessons, and providing some framework for me to use in thinking about what I am trying to teach the children with my focus on poetry.

Must have for teachers

This was such an amazing book. As a teacher-in-training, after reading this book, I am so excited about teaching a genre that I have so much difficulty with. I wish my elementary school teachers had this book available to them. After the sections talking about how important poetry is in a child's life, the section on biographies are so useful, which have detailed info about some books by that author. The activities didn't seem very interesting. Because I plan to buy this book, I will mainly use it as a buying guide for poetry books for my classroom.