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I saw Georgia Heard in person earlier this year. I had picked up Awakening the Heart and had started to read it before finding out that this was her first book on teaching poetry so I picked up a copy and read it before continuing Awakening.
Heard gives a lot of great ideas on how to introduce poetry to students. She starts with immersion in poetry and then goes into the editing process with suggestions for conferences with the students in writing workshop. She mostly works with free verse but there is a section on forms near the end.
Awakening seems to be more specific but built on the foundation of this book, so I am glad I backtracked and read it. I am hoping to use suggestions from here in my future classroom. There are lots of great student examples of poetry in this books as well.
Heard gives a lot of great ideas on how to introduce poetry to students. She starts with immersion in poetry and then goes into the editing process with suggestions for conferences with the students in writing workshop. She mostly works with free verse but there is a section on forms near the end.
Awakening seems to be more specific but built on the foundation of this book, so I am glad I backtracked and read it. I am hoping to use suggestions from here in my future classroom. There are lots of great student examples of poetry in this books as well.
