The Power of Poems: Teaching the Joy of Writing Poetry

by Margriet Ruurs

Poet and children's author Margriet Ruurs shows teachers of grades 3-8 how to introduce poetry to encourage creativity while teaching solid craft skills. Supports national, state, and provincial language-arts standards. Features mini-lessons that teach the craft of poetry and stimulate creativity.

113 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Margriet Ruurs is the author of more than 40 children's books, many of them award winners.
Margriet lives on Salt Spring Island where she runs BETWEEN THE COVERS, a booklovers' B & B (see: http://www.betweenthecoversbandb.com/)
She writes regular book reviews of YA and picturebooks here: http://margrietruurs.blogspot.ca/

Margriet visits schools around the world to conduct dynamic author presentations, slideshows of the writing process and poetry writing workshops for students and teachers. She also speaks at many literary conferences each year.
Margriet has a Master of Education degree from Simon Fraser University.

She also conducts school talks via Skype.

For more details visit her website and blog: www.margrietruurs.com
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Reviews

[Savannah Campbell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought it had some pretty good approaches and had some great ideas that I'm taking, but it seemed a little too activity-oriented. It didn't have the range of freedom for created poets that I had hoped it would have.