{"product_id":"9781571103208","title":"Note Slipped Under the Door, A: Teaching from Poems We Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"WHATEVER SHIRLEY OR NICK TELL YOU-BELIEVE THEM.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do we read a poem? What can we teach from a poem we love? How can we name what poets do in order to inform our writing, our teaching?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their staff development work with teachers, Nick Flynn and Shirley McPhillips have often encountered these and similar questions. This book invites preservice and inservice teachers, staff developers - anyone who wants to make a lasting place for poetry in their own and their students' lives - into many of these same primary through middle school classrooms for an up-close look at several thoughtful, rigorous, poetry inquiries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter begins with a mentor poem as the centerpiece for discussion, followed by a short narrative of ways the authors view their world through that chapter's particular poetic \"lens.\" The authors then walk the reader into a classroom writer's workshop where, through vignettes, conversations, and carefully designed mini-lessons, that chapter's key element of poetic practice is being studied over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther aspects that will help teachers in designing and conducting inquiry around mentor poems include:mini-lessons that take students through an inquiry from launch to in-depth extensions;illustrations of student writing samples in the \"try it\" stages, successive drafts, and crafted poems;words, stories, and examples of best-loved poets that inspire and instruct us in our own thinking and teaching;appendixes that include various types of book lists, charts, conference transcripts, and additional poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Note Slipped Under the Door\u003c\/em\u003e will show how you might help your student writers let the poems they love teach them what they need to know, and build a writing life that includes finding and crafting their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stenhouse Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060087013616,"sku":"9781571103208","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781571103208_p0.jpg?v=1763793654","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781571103208","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}