Creating Readers With Poetry

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Creating Readers with Poetry

Nile Stanley
Creating Readers with Poetry Book PDF

Author : Nile Stanley
Publisher : Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
ISBN : 9780929895703

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Creating Readers with Poetry by Nile Stanley Pdf

The message in Creating Readers with Poetry is simple and strong: Poetry helps children learn to read! In this innovative resource, Nile Stanley offers you teaching techniques that transform reading from a two-dimensional world of boredom and frustration into a three-dimensional world of voice, movement, and artistic expression. He shows you how poetry supports the teaching of reading and allows students to relax and blossom. His mini-lessons and engaging activity poems provide standards-based reading instruction that also build community, confidence, and enthusiasm. He includes a CD of sung and spoken poetry performed by noted children's poets and students to use as instructional models.

Making Your Own Days

Kenneth Koch
Making Your Own Days Book PDF

Author : Kenneth Koch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780684824383

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Making Your Own Days by Kenneth Koch Pdf

From the winner of the Bollingen Prize in poetry and author of the classic bestseller "Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?" comes a unique, highly entertaining book for anyone who wants to be a better reader and writer of poetry.

Developing Poetry Skills

Geoff Barton
Developing Poetry Skills Book PDF

Author : Geoff Barton
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0435104128

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Developing Poetry Skills by Geoff Barton Pdf

Developing Poetry Skills is a resource that provides students with the key skills they need to read and respond to poetry effectively. It is designed to introduce students to the enjoyment of reading poetry and to build confidence and understanding throughout Key Stage 3.

In the Best Interest of Students

Kelly Gallagher
In the Best Interest of Students Book PDF

Author : Kelly Gallagher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003841760

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In the Best Interest of Students by Kelly Gallagher Pdf

In his new book,In the Best Interest of Students: Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom , teacher and author Kelly Gallagher notes that there are real strengths in the Common Core standards, and there are significant weaknesses as well. He takes the long view, reminding us that standards come and go but good teaching remains grounded in proven practices that sharpen students' literacy skills.Instead of blindly adhering to the latest standards movement, Gallagher suggests:Increasing the amount of reading and writing students are doing while giving students more choice around those activitiesBalancing rigorous, high-quality literature and non-fiction works with student-selected titlesEncouraging readers to deepen their comprehension by moving beyond the four corners of the text-Planning lessons that move beyond Common Core expectations to help young writers achieve more authenticity through the blending of genresUsing modeling to enrich students' writing skills in the prewriting, drafting, and revision stagesResisting the de-emphasis of narrative and imaginative reading and writingAmid the frenzy of trying to teach to a new set of standards, Kelly Gallagher is a strong voice of reason, reminding us that instruction should be anchored around one guiding question: What is in the best interest of our students?

Please Mrs Butler

Allan Ahlberg
Please Mrs Butler Book PDF

Author : Allan Ahlberg
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780141928036

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Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg Pdf

Happy 30th birthday, Please Mrs Butler! This witty collection of school poems by Allan Ahlberg, re-jacketed for its 30th anniversary and for a whole new generation of school children to fall in love with, is full of typical classroom events that will be recognized and enjoyed by everyone. From never-ending projects, reading tests, quarreling, making-up, excuses and 'Please, Sir, it isn't fair.' Fritz Wegner's line drawings beautifully complement the hilarious and poignant verses. Please Mrs Butler was voted the most important twentieth-century children's poetry book in a Books for Keeps poll.

Where I'm from

Steven Borsman,Brittany Buchanan,Crystal Collett,Keri N. Collins,Danny Dyar,Katie Frensley,Yvonne Godfrey,Ethan Hamblin,Silas House,Megan Rebecckiah Jones,Liz Kilburn,George Ella Lyon,Zoe Minton,Kia L. Missamore,Desirae Negron,Marcus Plumlee,Emily Grace Sarver-Wolf,Lesley Sneed,Cassie Walters,Lucy Weakley
Where I m from Book PDF

Author : Steven Borsman,Brittany Buchanan,Crystal Collett,Keri N. Collins,Danny Dyar,Katie Frensley,Yvonne Godfrey,Ethan Hamblin,Silas House,Megan Rebecckiah Jones,Liz Kilburn,George Ella Lyon,Zoe Minton,Kia L. Missamore,Desirae Negron,Marcus Plumlee,Emily Grace Sarver-Wolf,Lesley Sneed,Cassie Walters,Lucy Weakley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American poetry
ISBN : OCLC:711622569

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Where I'm from by Steven Borsman,Brittany Buchanan,Crystal Collett,Keri N. Collins,Danny Dyar,Katie Frensley,Yvonne Godfrey,Ethan Hamblin,Silas House,Megan Rebecckiah Jones,Liz Kilburn,George Ella Lyon,Zoe Minton,Kia L. Missamore,Desirae Negron,Marcus Plumlee,Emily Grace Sarver-Wolf,Lesley Sneed,Cassie Walters,Lucy Weakley Pdf

"In the Fall of 2010 I gave an assignment in my Appalachian Literature class at Berea College, telling my students to write their own version of "Where I'm From" poem based on the writing prompt and poem by George Ella Lyon, one of the preeminent Appalachian poets. I was so impressed by the results of the assignment that I felt the poems needed to be preserved in a bound document. Thus, this little book. These students completely captured the complexities of this region and their poems contain all the joys and sorrows of living in Appalachia. I am proud that they were my students and I am very proud that together we produced this record of contemporary Appalachian Life" -- Silas House

Poetry Mentor Texts

Lynne R. Dorfman,Rose Cappelli
Poetry Mentor Texts Book PDF

Author : Lynne R. Dorfman,Rose Cappelli
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571109491

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Poetry Mentor Texts by Lynne R. Dorfman,Rose Cappelli Pdf

"In Poetry Mentor Texts, Lynne and Rose show teachers how to use poems in both reading and writing workshops and across content areas. Written in a friendly, conversational tone, this practical book explores a variety of poetic forms, including poems that inspire response, list poems, acrostic poems, persona poems, and poems for two voices--versatile forms of poetry that can be used in every grade. Each of these poetic forms has its own chapter featuring five poems with applications for both reading and writing classrooms. Reading connections present skills and strategies to move students forward as readers, helping them to build fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, phonemic awareness, and phonics. Writing connections help students and teachers discover their own voices and grow as poets and wordsmiths as they try out many poetic forms. Poems help students at all grade levels learn to better address complex reading texts, offering them a chance to dig deeper and use higher-order thinking skills. Additionally, Your Turn writing lessons provide a scaffold for seamlessly moving from modeling to the shared or guided experience and the transfer to independent work. The Treasure Chest offers a brief annotation of the poems discussed in each chapter as well as companion pieces that extend and enhance the work of the reading and writing classroom."--Publisher's description.

Writing Success Through Poetry

Susan Lipson
Writing Success Through Poetry Book PDF

Author : Susan Lipson
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Creative writing (Elementary education)
ISBN : 9781593631833

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Writing Success Through Poetry by Susan Lipson Pdf

Offering a wide variety of creative prompts that will engage any writer, Writing Success Through Poetry provides timesaving lessons to help teachers create a writers' workshop in the classroom. The author, a published poet and children's book author, provides 25 original poems as prompts for students to use as inspiration for their own poetry and prose. The book offers practical, pointed questions to facilitate Socratic-style discussions and explorations of literary concepts found within the poems. Writing Success Through Poetry uses methods to instill young writers with a mental checklist for self-evaluation of their writing, as well as a profound respect for the power of poetic writing in every genre. Book jacket.

Something Beautiful

Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Something Beautiful Book PDF

Author : Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385322393

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Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth Pdf

When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.

Solving the World's Problems

Robert Lee Brewer
Solving the World s Problems Book PDF

Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1935708902

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Solving the World's Problems by Robert Lee Brewer Pdf

The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander
The Crossover Book PDF

Author : Kwame Alexander
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780544107717

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The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Pdf

New York Times bestseller ∙ Newbery Medal Winner ∙Coretta Scott King Honor Award ∙2015 YALSA 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults∙ 2015 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers ∙Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ School Library Journal Best Book∙ Kirkus Best Book "A beautifully measured novel of life and line."--The New York Times Book Review "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering, " announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood from Kwame Alexander. Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story's heart-stopping climax proves a game-changer for the entire family.

WHEREAS

Layli Long Soldier
WHEREAS Book PDF

Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555979614

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WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier Pdf

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Mentor Texts

Rose Cappelli
Mentor Texts Book PDF

Author : Rose Cappelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003843481

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Mentor Texts by Rose Cappelli Pdf

In their first edition of Mentor Texts, authors Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli helped teachers across the country make the most of high-quality children's literature in their writing instruction. Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6, 2nd Edition the authors continue to show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers by using literature as their foundation. The second edition includes brand-new Your Turn Lessons, built around the gradual release of responsibility model, offering suggestions for demonstrations and shared or guided writing. Reflection is emphasized as a necessary component to understanding why mentor authors chose certain strategies, literary devices, sentence structures, and words. Dorfman and Cappelli offer new children's book titles in each chapter and in a carefully curated and annotated Treasure Chest. At the end of each chapter a Think About It'sTalk About It'sWrite About It section invites reflection and conversation with colleagues.The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing'sfocus, content, organization, style, and conventions. The authors write in a friendly and conversational style, employing numerous anecdotes to help teachers visualize the process, and offer strategies that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. This practical resource demonstrates the power of learning to read like writers.

Poetry Speaks to Children

Elise Paschen
Poetry Speaks to Children Book PDF

Author : Elise Paschen
Publisher : Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000063399417

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Poetry Speaks to Children by Elise Paschen Pdf

A collection of 95 remarkable poems by the poets and a few close friends.

Naming the Unnameable

Michelle Bonzcek Evory
Naming the Unnameable Book PDF

Author : Michelle Bonzcek Evory
Publisher : Open Suny Textbooks
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942341504

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Naming the Unnameable by Michelle Bonzcek Evory Pdf

Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for the New Generation assembles a wide range of poetry from contemporary poets, along with history, advice, and guidance on the craft of poetry. Informed by a consideration to the psychology of invention, Michelle Bonczek Evory¿s writing philosophy emphasizes both spontaneity and discipline, teaching students how to capture the chaos in our memories, imagination, and bodies with language, and discovering ways to mold them into their own cosmos, sculpt them like clay on a page. Exercises aim to make writing a form of play in its early stages that gives way to more enriching insights through revision, embracing the writing of poetry as both a love of language and a tool that enables us to explore ourselves and understand the world. Naming the Unnameable promotes an understanding of poetry as a living art and provides ways for students to involve themselves in the growing contemporary poetry community that thrives in America today.