Awakening the Heart by Heard

Awakening the Heart by Heard

Fans of the best-selling For the Good of the Earth and Sunwill applaud this sequel by beloved author Georgia Heard - an inspiring and practical handbook that celebrates the natural power of poetry to teach the essential tools of all writing.

Awakening the Heartexplores how to cultivate the poet in every elementary and middle school student - through well-drawn examples, detailed exercises, creative projects, and down-to-earth classroom teachings. Along the way, we learn how to: create environments that encourage children to express their innate sense of wonder; introduce poetry that will engage them; and help children make the transition from reading and talking to writing.

Best of all, Awakening the Heartis filled with luminous poems - by children, famous poets, and Heard herself.

Georgia Heard continues to contribute a poet's ear and a teacher's know-how to every area of writing instruction as a writer, poet, and founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Heart Maps, her newest book, contains 20 multi-genre heart maps to assist students in writing with purpose and authenticity. Georgia, a pioneer in the use of heart maps to examine what we all store inside: feelings, passions, weaknesses, and wonderings, has spent decades helping students into more meaningful writing experiences. Listen to Georgia on The Heinemann Podcast discuss about heart mapping, and check out the Heart Maps Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/heartmaps. Georgia is the author of several books, including The Revision Toolbox, Second Edition, Discovering the Heart of Nonfiction, and Writing Toward Home, as well as Awakening the Heart, which was named one of the 12 Books Every Teacher Should Read by Instructor Magazine.

She is also the coauthor of Climb Inside a Poem, a curricular resource that focuses on how reading and producing poetry can assist teachers enhance young kids' language and literacy over the course of the year. Georgia worked as a Senior Staff Development in New York City schools for seven years at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She is now touring the United States. as a consultant, visiting author, and keynote speaker in school systems and conferences all over the world.

Georgia is the coauthor of the professional titles Poetry Lessons to Meet the Common Core Standards and A Space for Wonder, as well as children's fiction such as Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, in addition to her Heinemann professional publications. Georgia's Twitter handle is @GeorgiaHeard1, and her website is GeorgiaHeard.com. Check out her TEDx lecture on heart mapping, Mapping Your Heart.