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ERIC Number: EJ417094
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
What Can a Poem Do?
Sandel, Lenore
Childhood Education, v66 n4 p210-13 Sum 1990
Maintains that, for each child, an initial contact with a poem through a sensitive and skillful teacher can be an individual dialogue with thought and feeling, reforming and deepening with time. Examples of poems are used to illustrate this point. (BB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dialogs (Literary), Elementary School Students, Language Arts, Literary Styles, Poetry, Primary Education, Public Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Teacher Role, Teaching Guides
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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