This companion to the Fountas &... more

This must-have resource will help teachers expand their collection of texts for shared reading, as well as connect learning across instructional contexts with the PWS System.

The accompanying guide, Words That Sing: Poetry Charts for Shared Reading: A Teaching Resource contains instructional suggestions and resources that will guide you in the many ways... more

This must-have resource will help teachers expand their collection of texts for shared reading, as well as connect learning across instructional contexts with the PWS System.

The accompanying guide, Words That Sing: Poetry Charts for Shared Reading: A Teaching Resource contains instructional suggestions and resources that will guide you in the... more

A best-selling and beloved teaching resource, Awakening the Heart inspired thousands of teachers to learn the power of infusing poetry into the everyday life of their classrooms rather than relegating it to one month out of the year.

In this fresh new edition, Georgia Heard offers updated strategies, lessons, mentor texts, and examples from both professional... more

The cure for "I hate poetry!"

Your students (and maybe even you) might cringe at the word poetry. For many, poetry feels like finding the hidden meaning the poet worked so hard to hide from the reader. If poetry confuses your students, they’re likely to avoid it altogether.

In Whispering in the Wind, master educator Linda Rief... more

“Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small, And too, poems teach us how to write.  Anything.” Amy Ludwig VanDerwater explains in Poems Are Teachers.

This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher.  Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet... more

“As teachers today, everything we teach has to be turbo-charged with skills and the promise of advancing our students academically. Here’s the cool thing: poetry can get you there. It is inherently turbo-charged. Poets distill a novel’s worth of content and emotion in twenty lines. The literary elements and devices you need to teach are all there, powerful and miniature... more