Resources – Bibliography for Teachers
"Amsco Extra!: Top Five Reasons You Should Be Teaching Poetry." Amsco Extra!. http://amscoextra.blogspot.com/2008/04/top-five-reasons-you-should-be-teaching.html (accessed July 12, 2011). Blogger Lauren shares her top five reasons why teachers should teach poetry.
"Bio4Kids: Meet the People - Shakespeare." Biography.com. http://www.biography.com/bio4kids/bio4kids-meet-shakespeare.jsp (accessed July 18, 2011). This child-friendly website offers biographical information about William Shakespeare, and can be used to link to other historical people.
Boyer, Ernest L. The Basic School: A Community for Learning. Princeton, N.J.: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1995. This book describes the Basic School principles upon which my school was founded.
"Common Core State Standards." Common Core State Standards Initiative | Home. http://www.corestandards.org/ (accessed July 16, 2011). This document outlines and describes the Common Core standards for learning now being introduced into education.
Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost." The Literature Network:Online Classic Literature, Poems, and Quotes, Essays & Summaries. http://www.online-literature.com/frost/755/ (accessed July 16, 2011). This poem talks to decision making and being presented with two different choices.
"History of Poetry." Poem of Quotes - Poetry, Quotations, and Relationships. http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/history-of-poetry.php (accessed July 17, 2011). This website details the history of poetry.
"History of Poetry - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_poetry (accessed July 17, 2011). This website details the history of poetry.
Housel, Debra. Strategies for Building Fluency. Huntington Beach: Shell Education, 2010. This binder offers ideas for teachers to implement in their classroom to support students becoming more fluent readers.
Janeczko, Paul B., and Christopher Raschka. A Kick in the Head. New York: Scholastic, 2006. This book captures different types of poems and defines there types.
Johnson, Boris. "Here's a Really Right-Wing Idea: Learn Poetry." The Telegraph (United Kingdom), July 12, 2011, sec. Comments. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/5004215/Heres-a-really-Right-wing-idea-learn-poetry.html (accessed July 12, 2011). Columnist Boris Johnson is commenting on politics and how the Tories should enforce the learning and memorizing of poetry in British schools.
KOG91. "Sonnet no 12: By William Shakespeare." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z96lGasMxzI (accessed July 16, 2011). This website is an auditory recording of William Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 12.
Koch, Kenneth. Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children. New York: Vintage Books, 1974. This book includes poems and suggestions for how to use them in the classroom.
Miller. "States of Matter Poems." Index. http://millergrade2.homestead.com/matter_poetry.htm (accessed July 14, 2011). This link is a teacher's collection of Matter poems that can be used for elementary students.
"Poetry - Definition and More." Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetry (accessed June 28, 2011).
This webpage offers Merriam Webster's definition of poetry.
Rasinski, Timothy, and Lorraine Griffith. Fluency Through Practice and Performance. Huntington Beach: Shell Education, 2011. This book offers strategies for teachers to teach students how to be more fluent readers who comprehend what they are reading.
Rodgers, Denise. "Funny Sonnet Poems." Funny Poems for Free Poetry Lessons. http://www.funny-poems-for-free.com/funny-sonnet-poems.html (accessed June 28, 2011). This website describes what a sonnet is, gives step-by-step instructions on how to write one, and gives examples of them.
Silverstein, Shel. "Sick by Shel Silverstein." PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of Poems and Poets. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sick-20/ (accessed July 16, 2011). The poem Sick is a humorous poem with a twist at the end. It details all the excuses a child can come up with for not going to school.
Sites, Melissa . "The Sonnet." Romantic Circles. www.rc.umd.edu/rchs/sonnet.htm (accessed July 17, 2011). This website describes the different types of sonnets and their rhyme schemes.
"Sonnets - Definition and More." Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sonnets (accessed June 28, 2011).
This webpage offers the definition of sonnets.
Wagner, Jennifer Ann. A Moment's Monument: Revisionary Poetics and the Nineteenth-Century English Sonnet. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996.
This book describes the history of the sonnet.
West, Damaris. "Brief History of Poetry." Poem and Poet Home Page. http://www.poem-and-poet.com/history-of-poetry.asp (accessed July 17, 2011). This website outlines the history of poetry and gives a timeline to its uses today.
"William Carlos Williams Biography." Biography.com. http://www.biography.com/articles/William-Carlos-Williams-9533039 (accessed July 18, 2011). This website offers biographical information about William Carlos Williams.
Scholastic.com. "Writing with Writers: Poetry Writing." Teaching Resources, Children's Book Recommendations, and Student Activities. http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/ (accessed May 7, 2011). This website has poets give step by step instructions about how to write a poem.
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