{"product_id":"poems-are-teachers-how-studying-poetry-strengthens-writing-in-all-genres-paperback","title":"Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Ludwig Vanderwater\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small, And too, poems teach us how to write. Anything.\" Amy Ludwig VanDerwater explains in \u003cem\u003ePoems Are Teachers\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher. Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet and two by students in grades 2 through 8, which serve as models to illustrate how poetry teaches writers to: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e find ideas \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003echoose perspective and point of view \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003estructure texts \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eplay with language \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ecraft beginnings and endings \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003echoose titles. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e Students will learn how to replicate the craft techniques found in poetry to strengthen all writing, from fiction to opinion, from personal narrative to information. \"Poets arrange words and phrases just as prose writers do, simply in tighter spaces,\" Amy argues. \"In the tight space of poetry, readers can identify writing techniques after reading one page, not thirty pages.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor of Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres and co-author of Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater also writes books for children. Her titles include Forest Has a Song, Every Day Birds, Read! Read! Read!, and With My Hands, and her poems appear in many anthologies. A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, former fifth grade teacher, and writing teacher of 20 years, Amy leads school assemblies, offers writing workshops for all ages, and speaks frequently at conferences. She makes her home in Western New York, sharing snips of life at her popular classroom blog www.poemfarm.amylv.com and on Twitter @amylvpoemfarm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 10.9 x 8.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45602578825260,"sku":"9780325096537","price":69.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/poems-are-teachers-how-studying-poetry-strengthens-writing-in-all-genres-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}