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Igniting an Interest in Teaching and Writing Poetry For Classroom Teachers and Home-Schooling Parents Igniting the Poetry Flame 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. Igniting the Poetry Flame is the first book in a three-volume series. Other books in the series are: Stoking the Poetry Flame and Keeping the Flame Alive. 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.

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Igniting the Poetry Flame serves as a map for teachers [and parents] to follow in leading their students [or their children] into an appreciation of poetry and toward finding the poet inside themselves. The pied piper's tune that the author whistles make the journey easier for teachers and students. Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Poet, Founder/Executive Director Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, Paterson, New Jersey It was an inspiration to read such brilliant [poetry] writing by those so young. The lessons, projects and tasks were as creative as they were worthwhile. Elliot Engel, Ph.D., English Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina [This book] is a stoker for students to experience what lies in themselves when allowed to participate in experiences(s) that ignite their own imaginations. Michael Woodworth Fuller, Ph.D., English Teacher, Retired, Los Angeles Unified School District, Author of Legacy Igniting the Poetry Flame shares step-by-step lessons that lead students from their prior knowledge of the world to more complex poetic analysis. Joan Sinclair, Academic Dean and English Teacher, Retired, Mayfield Senior School, Pasadena, California Choose a lesson from the book, invite your students to dive into the tasks, and get ready for your writers to astonish you in the best possible way. Stacy Harris, Teacher, Second Grade, Webster Elementary School, Malibu, California

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Andrea Louise Ambler has taught English in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and through the Department of Defense in Germany. She served as University Mentor at Azusa Pacific University. Andrea was awarded Teacher of the Year, Outstanding Teacher, and the Johns Hopkins University Teacher Recognition Award. Her previous books include LITERATURE: the Book, the Place and the Pen Keepers of the Flame: A Poetry and Prose Resource Book for Teachers and Distant Shore, part of a K-8 literature series (McGraw-Hill Publishing). She has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Southern California, and is listed in Who's Who in American Education. Andrea currently resides with her husband, Charles Hargrove, in Pasadena, California. Christine J. Curry is an independent professional artist and muralist who has painted numerous murals in Southern California. She graduated from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, and has had numerous exhibitions of her work throughout the Los Angeles area. Christine lives in Redlands, California and is the illustrator of several books by Andrea Louise Ambler.

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