Have a budding young poet at home? Are you a teacher of young children? If so, you may really appreciate this
freebie. It's the 75-page pdf teaching guide to another book,
River of Words: Young Poets and Artists on the Nature of Things.
While this book is intended to accompany another book, frankly I don't see the main book as being necessary (or even all that useful, for that matter). The teaching guide stands alone just fine.
The main book
is sold, for example at Amazon (
http://www.amazon.com/River-Words-Ar...river+of+words). The teaching guide is apparently
not sold anywhere, only given away.
Here's an excerpt from the introduction of the teaching guide:
The teaching strategies in this guide will help students get beyond preconceived notions about poetry, inhibitions and fears, excessive reliance on rhyme, and the thorny host of other impediments to creativity and expression that a poetry assignment often invokes. Connie and Harriet have created a fun, investigatory, challenging set of classroom activities that we hope will help you to inspire your students to explore both their “inner” worlds and the complicated, endlessly fascinating “outer” world around them.
The teaching guide comes "highly recommended!" by Homeschool Freebie of the Day. And, I can tell you, from thumbing through the book, that the material is
excellent.
Here's
a direct link to the pdf.