Browsing articles tagged with " teaching writing"
April 17, 2009
Rebecca Reid
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Rose, Where Do You Get that Red? by Kenneth Koch + Reading with Kids Challenge

Rose, Where Do You Get that Red? by Kenneth Koch is written for educators, and yet it is accessible to others. Reading it as a mother shows me that reading classic poetry to my young child can be inspiring in not just their own understandings of poetry but also in their own writing. There is no need to limit children to “age-appropriate” poetry, which often is cliché and boring; children can handle the “real” stuff, like Shakespeare, Donne, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. Continue reading »

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