Teachers at Work
A column about teaching
Ducking Under the Caution Tape: Approachable Poems
January 30, 2012
By Shannon Reed
Before I began teaching, I had assumed that the many stories I had heard about how students don't like poetry were just myths. After all, I liked (some) poetry, so why wouldn't my students like (some) poetry? But unlike nearly every other myth I've dismissed in my time as a teacher, the one about poetry proved to be true: Nothing makes my students whine more than being handed a poem.
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