Online Resources

National Writing Project's Rural Sites Network

Academy of American Poets section for teachers

Teachers and Writers Collaborative, the oldest and best known poets in the schools organization

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

Print Resources

Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School by Georgia Heard Heinemann, 1998

Three Voices: An Invitation to Poetry Across the Curriculum by Bernice E. Cullinan, Marilyn C. Scala, and Virginia C. Schroder, Stenhouse, 1995

A Garden of Poets by Mary Kenner Glover, NCTE, 1999

A Jar of Tiny Stars: Poems by NCTE Award Winning Poets, Bernice E. Cullinan, editor Boyds Mill, Press and NCTE, 1996

Hewitt's Guide to Slam Poetry and Poetry by Slam Geoff Hewitt, Discover Writing Press, 2005

Today You are My Favorite Poet: Writing Poems with Teenagers by Geoff Hewitt, Heinemann, 1998

Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: A Whole Language Approach by Barbara Chatton, Oryx Press, 1993

Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry by Kenneth Koch, Perennial Library, reprint 2000

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser, University of Nebraska Press, 2005

A Poem for Every Student: Creating Community in a Public School Classroom by Sheryl Lain, Berkeley, CA: National Writing Project, 1998

Rural Voices: Place Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing by R. Brooke (Ed.), New York: Teachers College Press, 2003

 

 

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