Explore Poetry!: With 25 Great Projects

Praise for Explore Poetry! With 25 Great Projects
School Library Connection
Students will have fun learning about the many different forms of poetry in this informational resource. . . This book would be a handy resource for teachers to have available to them in the library. Recommended

Publishers Weekly
"This addition to the Explore Your World! series of workbooks focuses on both reading and writing poetry, with poems and profiles of famous poets featured throughout. Over five chapters, Diehn describes poetic forms like limerick, haiku, and acrostic; explores literary techniques, such as personification and exaggeration; and finds connections between poetry, music, and math. Projects include creating a poetry journal and writing ideas on rocks to combat writer’s block. Stone’s cartoons, which star a fox dressed like a Beat poet and a Shakespearean bear, make for a lively…

Ann Turkle, PhD, professor of creative writing
?Explore Poetry! is a veritable bento box of poetic snacks. Explore Poetry! will give parents, teachers, and young learners the confidence to pursue memorable fun with words and the adventure of poetry.”

Peter Money, poet and teacher
?Imagine a vast playground with woods, challenges, games, and treasures. Now imagine the same kind of playground for language: Welcome to ?Explore Poetry! ”

Heather Sellers, PhD, professor of English, University of South Florida
?Fabulously readable. Here are 25 projects that really work. Diehn offers so many layers of learning in this bright, fun, accessible, wonderful text. Highly recommended.”

Ellen Daugherty Durr, teacher and literacy consultant
?Through comprehensive content, vocabulary support, compelling examples, and open-ended activities, this valuable resource makes reading and writing poetry accessible to every reader.”