Discusses a study that tested whether guided examination of selected poems and songs would increase proclivity for work and appreciation of work values. Compared the effectiveness of the infusion intervention with a more traditional career planning treatment. (JOW)

Explores the role of word sounds in the compositional process and investigates whether the reader's responses to the sound structure need to be adjusted if that structure's influence on the emerging meaning is significant. (MM)

Argues that children can enjoy poetry if it is taught right and describes a number of writing activities to stimulate interest. (RB)

The author, a poet, publisher, and biographer of Wilfred Owen, remembers how he was first attracted to words. (Editor/RK)

The author, utilizing a synthesis of philosophic comments on aesthetics, provides a discourse on the aesthetic dimension and offers examples of how interpreters can nurture the innate sense of beauty in man. Poetic forms, such as haiku, are used to relate the aesthetic relationship between man and the environment. (BT)

Aimed at students who love math as well as those who dread it, this book adds another dimension to the abstract nature of numbers. Using words and pictures, teachers can help children make the connection between mathematics and their everyday routines and observations. This book includes: (1) 20 illustrated poems; (2) math practice with sorting,…

As study investigated the meaning-making processes of college freshmen as they interpreted and discussed poetry. Through the theory base of Reader-Response Theory and the New Rhetoric, students' individual construction of meaning and their social construction and negotiation of meaning, respectively, as they interpreted poems was studied. The…

Written to take the reader on a passionate, intuitive journey into the "deliciously bewitching" world of poetry, this book centers around a group of poems the author calls her "talismans," objects that give her a special hold on life. Arguing that such poems can illumine the paths of existence itself, the author invites readers…

This digest makes the case for using poetry in the teaching of science. Poems can braid curriculum areas, breaking through boundaries and weaving concepts together. The digest contains a list of poets and poems on science, as well as lists of ERIC and World Wide Web resources. (MM)

Total school involvement implementing a variety of innovative approaches make for an exciting five week reading program. (RB)

The purpose of the assignment described in this article was to help students see that reading a literary work is not a straightforward process and to have students arrive at an understanding of just how complex a thing the responding mind is. (Author/RK)

This article describes an occupational therapy project using poetry as a task groupd activity in a psychiatric setting. (Author/UA)

Argues that children's poetry in Chile should not serve the goal of teaching moral values and the poetry should exclude themes of patriotism, pedagogics, and politics. (Author/RB)