Poetry Break
This page designed by Hilary Haygood for a graduate course at
Texas Woman's University,
LS 5903, Poetry for Children,
taught by Dr. Sylvia Vardell.
Poetry is music
for the eyes, sustenance for the soul.
    
     Many adults were taught to "hate" poetry through the inadvertent actions of well-meaning teachers.  Most of us recall searching for the correct hidden meaning of poems and never seeing them for their artistic beauty or reading poems that the teacher though were great when we would have preferred to browse and choose our own poems.
     One of my goals as an elementary school librarian is to instill a love of poetry in my students by allowing them to experience different forms of poetry by a variety of poets in an unthreatening environment.
     These pages represent an overview of children's poetry with suggestions for using the poems in a classroom setting.
Module One
The Poetry Environment
Module Two
Major Poets
Module Three
Poetry Performance
Module Four
Poetry across the Curriculum
Module Five
Multicultural Poetry
Module Six
Responding to Poetry
Poet Study
Douglas Florian
Bibliography
Hilary Haygood, a graduate student at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, is currently working as an elementary school librarian in Andrews, Texas.  She previously taught kindergarten, second, third and fifth grades in Andrews before beginning her new career as a librarian during the 2002-2003 school year.  She will complete the work on her Master's degree from TWU in the spring of 2005.
Hilary Haygood
911 Sartain Drive
Andrews, TX  79714
E-mail:  [email protected]
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