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Keeping an Interest in Teaching and Writing Poetry For Classroom Teachers and Home-Schooling Parents "Keeping the Poetry Flame Alive" shows how to develop and encourage the love of poetry, including strategies for teaching it, and suggestions for making poetry a meaningful part of a student's life. It is a practical, easy-to-follow, field-tested guide for teachers to use at all grade levels and for all abilities, and gives teachers and home-schooling parents techniques for teaching poetry to their students. Chapters offer purposes, detailed biographical information, specific poetic structures, and classroom student tasks. Each lesson is illustrated with examples of original student poems. There is a Resource List, Bibliography, and Glossary of Literary Terms. A final student activity includes directions for making an anthology of their poems. "Keeping the Poetry Flame Alive" is the third book in a three-volume series. Other books in the series are: "Igniting the Poetry Flame" and "Stoking the Poetry Flame" The series seeks to ignite and invigorate the creative poetic spark in students. Each book in the series can be used by itself as a stand-alone text or with the other books in the series. They can be adapted for use in elementary, middle, or high school language arts classes by English and other teachers at all grade levels, and for students of varying abilities. Parents will also find the books valuable for their home-schooled children.

Teaching Literature in a Clever, Fun Way – A Book For Classroom Teachers & Home Schoolers. "LITERATURE: the Book, the Place and the Pen" is designed to educate students about good literature both in the classroom and at home. The information is applicable to all grade levels. There are multiple exciting activities that engage students in reading literature and also writing about what they have learned.The book meets national language arts standards through twelve chapters, each centered on a different genre of literature. There are unique writing tasks in each chapter, interesting background information about each genre, and practical and inspirational assignments for the students."LITERATURE: the Book, the Place and the Pen" encourages students  to become prolific, life-long readers of all types of literature – short stories, novels, non-fiction, drama and poetry. To instill in students a love of reading, so they can strive to become insightful thinkers and competent writers of literature in its many varied forms.As F. Scott Fitzgerald believed, good literature reflects in some way the multi-faceted nature of life: “That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong…” Through literature, students learn to explore life and to consider the various options for themselves.