Cotton, Kathleen. "Teaching Thinking Skills." School Improvement Research Series (SIRS), 1991. An essay and overview of the value of using Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking Skills.
Koch, Kenneth. Making our Own Days:
The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. A comprehensive guide for understanding the mechanics of poetry and how good poetry manages to intoxicate its readers.
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Rose, Where Did You Get that Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children
. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. A volume that uses 10 lessons to teach teachers how to use and explain poetry to their students. The second half of the book is a collection of additional poems to use in the classroom.
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Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Largely a collection of poetry written by inner-city children, with simple yet effective strategies to teach children how to write their own poems.
Moyers, Bill.
The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets
. New York: Doubleday, 1995. This book contains conversations with 34 poets about their poetry, what motivates them to write and their reactions to their own work.
Rubin, Robert Alden, ed.
Poetry Out Loud
. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1993. 100 poems specifically chosen because they are so well suited to being read aloud.
Ryan, Margaret.
How to Write a Poem
. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996. From the series of Speak Out, Write On! books, this book is an introduction to terminology and techniques needed to write poetry.