Tiger Lilies, Toadstools, and Thunderbolts

Engaging K–8 Students With Poetry

Iris McClellan Tiedt

How can you teach poetry in a way that captures students’ imaginations and inspires them to enjoy its rhythms and rhymes?

Here’s a fresh approach to creating a classroom climate that invites children of all ages to experience poetry and write original verse. This creative resource is packed with teaching ideas that you can adapt to different levels of ability and interest. An appendix presents the activities as full-page reproducibles that outline expected outcomes, assessment possibilities, and additional resources for using poetry in the classroom.

An IRA Book Club selection, February 2002

© 2002 | 248 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-170-7

Also of interest:

Poetic Possibilities: Using Poetry to Enhance Literacy Learning

Poetry Workshop for Middle School

Reading and Writing Literary Genres

Learning to Write, Writing to Learn

Related ReadWriteThink.org lesson plans:

“Writing Free Verse in the “Voice” of Cesar Chavez”