Poetry Friday

Poetry Friday: Audio odysseys

October 29, 2010 in Poetry Friday

This Friday, explore a classic in a new way … Add multimedia resources, like this audio Book Reading of Homer’s The Odyssey, when you are exploring this classic with students. Listen now with students to this dramatic excerpt to…

Poetry Friday: Emphasize rhythm and rhyme with audio clips

October 15, 2010 in Poetry Friday

Audio performances of books, like this dramatic Book Reading of Bear Feels Scared (S&S, 2008), are a fun way to explore rhythm and rhyme with younger students. Listen now with students and ask them to notice the rhyming words in…

Poetry Friday: Poems about place

September 24, 2010 in Poetry Friday

While browsing TeachingBooks.net for audio Book Readings featuring poetry, I came across this dramatic audio performance of two poems from Curtis Crisler’s Tough Boy Sonatas (Front Street, 2007), a collection of 38 poems reflecting the experiences of boys growing up…

Poetry Friday: June Jordan

September 17, 2010 in Poetry Friday

In this audio clip you’ll hear Kathy Engel, friend of poet June Jordan, introduce and read from a collection of poems written by teens in Harlem, NYC in the 1960’s, entitled The Voice of the Children (Holt, Rinehart, & Winston,…

Poetry Friday: ABC of African American Poetry

August 27, 2010 in Poetry Friday

In this audio clip about his book (Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry, S&S, 1997) Ashley Bryan presents the alphabet to introduce the contributions of Black American poets, including Henry Dumas and Langston Hughes. He hopes you…

Poetry Friday: Poems for two voices

July 16, 2010 in Poetry Friday

Listen to this dramatic audio performance of “Grasshoppers” from Paul Fleischman’s book, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (HarperCollins, 1988). Have students perform poems from this book aloud, or challenge them to adapt favorite poems for a performance in two…

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