Poetry is a natural favorite of children and a wonderful way to enhance learning. Poetry can invite discussion of social issues, including war and peace, race and ethnicity, and the environment. There are poems about health, poems that draw on jazz, and poetic retellings in the form of fables, tales, myths, and legends - each with its own story or lesson.<BR>This second edition of Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language offers a comprehensive list of poetry anthologies, poetic picture books, and poetic prose works in a wide variety of subject areas. While it maintains the original edition's focus on ideas and resource lists for integration of poetry into all areas of the curriculum, it is thoroughly revised to cover current issues in education and the wealth of new poetry books available. While many teaching ideas and topics provide references to the standards they meet, this title is unique in starting with those standards and making links across them.