Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School By Georgia Heard, William Varner (Editor), Naomi Shihab Nye (Foreword) ISBN: 9780325000930 Published: 1998 Number of Pages: 160 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Heinemann Description:  Grades K-8 Awakening the Heart is a stirring personal reminder that encouraging children to discover the words and images of their own lives, as we discover our own, is a crucial devotion. We all need such books as lanterns and guides. –Naomi Shihab Nye Fans of the best-selling For the Good of the Earth and Sun will applaud this sequel by beloved author Georgia Heard–an inspiring and practical handbook that celebrates the natural power of poetry to teach the essential tools of all writing. Awakening the Heart explores how to cultivate the poet in every elementary and middle school student–through well-drawn examples, detailed exercises, creative projects, and down-to-earth classroom teachings. Along the way, we learn how to: create environments that encourage children to express their innate sense of wonder; introduce poetry that will engage them; and help children make the transition from reading and talking to writing. Best of all, Awakening the Heart is filled with luminous poems–by children, famous poets, and Heard herself.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  98029212
   - LC control Number: 98029212

International Standard Book Number: 032500093X

Geographic Area Code: n-us---

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: LB1575.5.U5
   - Item number: H43 1999

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 21
   - Classification number: 372.64

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Heard, Georgia
   - Personal name: Heard, Georgia.

Title Statement
   - Title: Awakening the heart :
   - Remainder of title: exploring poetry in elementary and middle school /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Georgia Heard ; foreword by Naomi Shihab Nye
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Georgia Heard ; foreword by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Portsmouth, NH :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Heinemann,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1999
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1999.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 140 p. :
   - Extent: xviii, 140 p. :
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 23 cm
   - Dimensions: 23 cm.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139)
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139).
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note: Poetry, like bread, is for everyone -- Making a poetry environment: a place where your life really matters -- Reading poetry: poems keep singing to you all your life -- Writing poetry: where does poetry hide? -- Crafting poetry: toolboxes -- Sharpening our outer and inner visions: poetry projects -- Yourself as the key -- Appendices: Guidelines for revising your own poem, peer conferring, and response groups -- Poets as teachers -- Anthology of student poetry -- A few good poetry books.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Poetry
   - General subdivision: Study and teaching (Elementary)
   - General subdivision: Study and teaching (Middle school)
   - Geographic subdivision: United States
   - Geographic subdivision: United States.