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Program 2024-2025:

Poems Are Teachers
​presented by

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

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Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Photo links to Amy's website.
​Author of Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres and co-author of Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater also writes books for children. Her titles include Forest Has a Song, Every Day Birds, Read! Read! Read!, and With My Hands, and her poems appear in many anthologies. A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, former fifth grade teacher, and writing teacher of 20 years, Amy leads school assemblies, offers writing workshops for all ages, and speaks frequently at conferences. She makes her home in Western New York, sharing snips of life at her popular classroom blog www.poemfarm.amylv.com and on Twitter @amylvpoemfarm.
Taken from the Heinemann website: Author page

Poems Are Teachers, will be our focus, using poetry to further explore the ideas from Artfully Teaching the Science of Reading, last year’s program. 
​Saturday, September 28, 2024  8:30 AM-3:00 PM
    Clark Hall 
    Gahanna-Jefferson Schools

    380 Granville St.
    Gahanna, OH 43230
    Cost $75.00

Saturday, April 12, 2025 8:30 AM-3:00 PM
​    
Clark Hall 
    Gahanna-Jefferson Schools

    380 Granville St.
    Gahanna, OH 43230
    Cost $75.00

Credit available through Muskingum University!
8:15AM Information sharing for those who sign up prior to session start.
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Poems Are Teachers
Book links to Heinemann site.
​“Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small, and too, poems teach us how to write.  Anything.” Amy Ludwig VanDerwater explains in Poems Are Teachers.
This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher.  Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet and two by students in grades 2 through 8, which serve as models to illustrate how poetry teaches writers to:
  • find ideas
  • choose perspective and point of view
  • structure texts
  • play with language
  • craft beginnings and endings
  • choose titles.
Students will learn how to replicate the craft techniques found in poetry to strengthen all writing, from fiction to opinion, from personal narrative to information.  “Poets arrange words and phrases just as prose writers do, simply in tighter spaces,” Amy argues. “In the tight space of poetry, readers can identify writing techniques after reading one page, not thirty pages.”
Taken from Heinemann website: Poems Are Teachers book page

Poems Are Teachers, will be our focus, using poetry to further explore the ideas from Artfully Teaching the Science of Reading, last year’s program. The good news is there is still time to register for this year’s program and we will be offering credit again through Muskingum University.

Make sure to visit Amy's site:  The Poem Farm http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/for poetry and lessons for children of all ages. The site created for classroom or homeschool teachers provides literacy and writing workshop instruction.



REGISTRATION:
Special Pricing: Pre-Service or Novice Teacher with 1 year experience or less:
​Registration total for both sessions is $30 and includes a copy of the book Poems Are Teachers which will be distributed at the first session. There is no individual session 
option.

Teacher/Librarian/
​Administrator with more than 1 year experience:

Registration total for both sessions is $150 and includes a copy of the book 
Poems Are Teachers which will be distributed at the first session. 

One Day Option for Teacher/Librarian/
Administrator 
with more than 1 year experience:
Individual sessions are $75 and do not include a copy of the book. Book will be available for purchase.


****Credit Available through Muskingum University**** 
Choose 1, 2, or 3 credit hour options. Registration forms and syllabi for the 1, 2, and 3 credit hour options are below. The cost per credit hour is $155. Information sharing for those who sign up will be held at 8:15AM before we begin our session with Amy.
tlc_gahanna_part_i_-_poetry_syllabus_24-25.pdf
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tlc_gahanna_part_ii_-_poetry_syllabus_24-25.pdf
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educ_580_n2084_poems_are_teachers_part_2.pdf
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tlc_book_study_poetry_syllabus-_24-25.pdf
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Contact Hours: A certificate for 5 contact hours will be available at the end of each presentation.
Payment:
​Please complete the registration form below and email to  [email protected]  or mail to Kathleen Taps, 3838 Lakedale Dr., Hilliard, OH, 43026. If using a credit card, please click on the PayPal link. Make checks payable to The Literacy Connection.  Purchase orders are accepted. There will be no refunds.
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Poems Are Teachers
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Taken from the Cover to Cover website
​
​Byran Loar, our friend and new owner of Cover to Cover Bookstore, will be on site with an amazing selection of wonderful books for sale. Be prepared. They are very hard to resist.

Reading &Writing:  
Where It All Begins - Helping Your Children At Home


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Spanish Booklet
Our very popular booklet for parents of young children including preschoolers and kindergartners is now available only in Spanish. It is intended to help our potential elementary age children with the skills that lead to success as readers and writers. This booklet, Lectura y Escritura: Done Comienza La Educacion-Ayudando A Sus Hijos En el Hogar, published by The Literacy Connection in Spanish (originally in English), highlights many natural, everyday opportunities parents incur to talk, tell stories, and share books with their children. These practices make a significant difference in learning to read and write.

​The booklet was written by Dr. Moira McKenzie, Dr. Martha King, Peggy Oxley, Lynda Mudre, Jean Sperling, Kathleen Taps, and Nancy Blume. The cost is $2.00 per copy and is available upon request. Please send an email to Kathleen Taps at [email protected]. Shipping and handling costs will need to be determined.
                                                                                                           
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  • Welcome
  • About Us
  • History of Presenters
  • Previous Professional Development Programs
    • Professional Development 2024-2025 Part 2
    • Professional Development 2024-2025 Part 1
    • Professional Development 2023-24 >
      • Dr. Timothy Rasinski 2023
      • Dr. Chase Young 2024
    • Professional Development 2022-23
    • Professional Development 2020-2021 >
      • Dr. Gholdy Muhammad 2021
      • Matt Glover 2021
      • Let's Talk Books! 2020
      • Kristin Ziemke 2020
    • Professional Development 2019-2020 >
      • Handouts from Annie Ward
      • Class Credit Information 2019-2020
    • Professional Development 2018-2019 >
      • Study Group 2018-2019
    • Professional Development 2017-2018
    • Featured Authors 2017-2018 >
      • Study Group 2017-2018
    • Featured Author 2016-2017 >
      • Study Group 2016-2017
    • Featured Author 2015-2016 >
      • Study Group 2015-2016
  • Publication: Reading and Writing Booklet
  • Worthington EL Videos
  • Recommended Books for Diversity and Social Justice
  • Blogs/Websites
  • Contact/Support