Poems for Teaching in the Content Areas: 75 Powerful Poems to Enhance Your History, Geography, Science, and Math Lessons

by Laura Robb, J. Patrick Lewis

Overview

What happens when you pair one of the most vibrant, versatile children's poets with one of the best educators? 75 poems perfectly pitched to the needs of teachers, along with simple unique ideas for maximizing their teaching power before, during, and after learning. Topics include: Metamorphosis, simple machines, hurricanes; The Civil War, D-Day, The Vietnam War, the New Deal, Immigrants and Migrants, Brown vs. the Board of Education; The Nile, Fallingwater, The Great Sphinx; fractions, algebra, and much, much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545193658
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/2007
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Laura Robb is a Literacy Coach at Powhatan School in Boyce, Virginia where she coaches teachers in grades K to 8. She also teaches students all year in public schools in and around Winchester. Laura is a sought-after speaker for conferences and is in constant demand for professional development workshops throughout the country. Most notably, she is a veteran educator with over 43 years of teaching experience to her credit. Laura takes a thoughtful approach in weaving classroom strategies with research-based practices into her books with Scholastic. She is on the Editorial Board for Language Arts magazine and recently completed her three-year term on the National Council of Teachers of English Commission on Reading.