Explains how students can be introduced to the delights and problems of lyric poetry by reading A.E. Housman's "Lovliest of Trees, the Cherry Now." (HOD)

Creative approaches in teaching children to write poetry are given. (MJB)

Approaching poetry from the nigh impossible task of defining it leads to a fruitful discovery of some of the most important aspects of it. (DD)

Provides a series of suggestions to help students in poetry writing classes move past those periods when ideas for poems seem to have stopped flowing. (TJ)

Discusses specific steps teachers of young children can take to sustain and increase children's love of poetry. The discussion ranges from the music of Mother Goose, chants, and nonsense verse to implementing a planned program of poetry writing. (RH)

Argues that the preschool setting is an ideal place to encourage the composition and appreciation of poetry and provides some examples of how this can be done. (MP)

This guide contains a short introduction on the value of teaching poetry in elementary school and some ideas on how it should be taught. The guide presents seven classroom activities to make poetry come alive. Seven figures illustrating the activities are included. (MS)

Outlines the teaching of Edward Thomas' poetry over a six-week period. (SRT)

Outlines common abuses that occur when students first use dramatic analysis in oral interpretation. Offers guidelines to help make students' efforts more productive; uses William Carlos Williams's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" as an example. (PD)

Outlines an exercise that gets students to experience the oral composition of poetry. Describes methods for implementing the exercise; discusses results and advantages. (PD)

Discusses the use of exercises that help students learn to write poetry. (HOD)

Suggest that if teachers select poems they enjoy, memorize them, say them aloud every day, invite children to recite them also, set up a special place to display poems and poetry books, and do not rush children, they will make poetry come alive for students. (JL)

A novelist, poet, and painter describes her method of teaching creative writing. (AEA)

Discusses approaches to writing poetry in high school English classes, giving students many successful writing experiences in which classmates can commend each other's word choices. Offers three patterns for generating in-class poems. (RL)

Provides a guide for teaching Edwin Morgan's poem, "O Pioneers!" (TJ)