Powerful Poetry

The power of poetry is at your fingertips with Adrienne Gear’s Powerful Poetry. In this ground-breaking book, Adrienne explains how the ‘experience’ of a poem is both visual and auditory, emotional and cognitive.

This comprehensive approach to reading and writing poetry offers the background and activities teachers need to bring poetry to life for their students. Powerful Poetry celebrates the beauty, power and pleasure of poetry in the classroom. This highly readable book outlines the many benefits of integrating poetry into your literacy program, including building reading, writing and speaking skills, nurturing creativity and celebrating language.

This inspiring book is organised around discovering, experiencing, learning and creating poetry. The practical lessons show you how to integrate poetry into your year-long literacy program and how a single poem can ignite an endless number of literacy lessons. The lessons feature effective strategies for introducing poetic structure, language, tools and devices.

Grounded in classroom practice and sound pedagogy, lessons throughout the book feature lists of anchor books and anchor poems, student samples, reproducible templates and graphic organisers. This valuable resource explores how effective poetry can be in building language skills and reflects the many ways that poetry can empower thinking.

Ideal for new and experienced teachers who are looking to bring the power of poetry into their classroom.