Book Description
Teaching Kindergartners to Love Writing PoetryJust for Kindergarten!Renowned teacher Regie Routman shares her poetry-teaching strategies and a delightful selection of poems written by kindergartners. Regie provides easy, wonderful lessons on using students' poems—and other poems—as models to invite children to write free-verse poems about things they know and love, from pet dogs to eating popcorn.. She describes the way she invites children to study the model poem, beginning by asking kids, What do you notice? Includes 20 reproducible poems by kindergartners, show in handwritten draft and final published form to share with kids. With this approach, ever child will feel successful as a writer.


About the Author
Regie Routman has been teaching in public schools for almost three decades. She has taught most of the elementary grades and has been a reading specialist, learning disabilities tutor, Reading Recovery teacher, language arts resource and mentor teacher, and staff developer. Currently, she teaches and consults in schools and districts around the country doing demonstrations and conducting workshops. She continues to speak to educators nationally and internationally. Regie Routman's books are acclaimed by educators as providing a solid, theory-based understanding of language learning along with a wealth of useable ideas and resources. She writes in an upbeat, conversational, practical, and sincere voice from her daily experiences in the classroom. Regie's first book,Transitions: From Literature to Literacy (Heinemann, 1988) has helped countless elementary teachers make the journey to literature-based teaching and more meaning-centered approaches. Her follow-up book, Invitation: Changing as Teachers and Learners K-12 (Heineman, 1991 and 1994) has proven to be an inspiring, invaluable, comprehensive resource for teachers of all grades. Her most recent book is Literacy at the Crossroads: Crucial Talk About Reading, Writing, and Other Teaching Dilemmas (Heinemann, 1996). As cries for "back to basic" teaching have grown louder, this book was written to clarify issues, offer specific suggestions, and provide impetus for taking action to make a meaningful difference in our schools. Her newest book,Conversations: Strategies for Teaching, Learning and Evaluating will be available from Heinemann in autumn 1999.