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Recently New Release Published3“Preserves the fun of poetry while adding assistance to more rigorousunderstandings about how poetry is made and the work that it can do. Let’sPoem is a great new resource for middle and high school teachers.”—Jeffrey D. Wilhelm author of “You Gotta BE the Book”5–8NewOct 2010 / 128 pp.Paperback, $22.95 / 5139-8large format / photosLanguage and Literacy Series(Practitioner’s Bookshelf)“...On your Mark Dressman GetReady!Let’s Poem!”—From the Forewordby Nikki Giovanni,University DistinguishedProfessor, Virginia Tech“Keep this book ready for thatnext moment when you wonderwhat to do when kids reportthat they hate poetry or whenyou wonder what to do to makepoems live in their 21st-centuryworld. This book isn’t one for theshelves; it’s for your head andyour heart and, ultimately, foryour students.”—Kylene Beers, Reading andWriting Project, TeachersCollege, Columbia Universityand NCTE past President,2009–2010Let’s PoemThe Essential Guide to Teaching Poetry ina High-Stakes, Multimodal World (MiddlethroughHigh-School)Mark Dressman, associate professor, Departmentof Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, and editor, Research in theTeaching of English.Foreword by Nikki GiovanniThis cutting-edge guide presents multipleapproaches to teaching poetry at the middleand high school levels. The author providesfield-tested activities with detailed how-toinstructions, as well as advice for how educatorscan “justify” their teaching within ahigh-stakes curriculum environment. Let’sPoem will show pre- and inservice teachershow to preserve the fun of poetry whilealso developing critical writing and analysisskills, how to introduce students to the basicformal elements of classic and contemporarypoetry, and how to expand their repertoiresthrough the use of digital technology andthe Internet. With an urban and multiculturalfocus, chapters cover choral reading ofpoetry, writing about race, jazz poetry andother cultural forms, hip-hop and spokenword poetry, multimodal “remixing” ofcanonical poems, the use of poems frominternational settings and authors, and more.Book features:• Field-tested activities accompanied by step-bystepinstructions, student writing samples, andteacher comments.• Ways to extend and adapt lessons for diversegroups.• Annotated online resources, including a bookwebsite: http://letspoemresources.ning.comSee pages 14–15 for more titles inthe Practitioner’s Bookshelf series.Order online www.tcpress.com Order by phone 800.575.6566