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Poetry Friday: Sharon Creech

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Enjoy this dramatic audio performance of an excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Heartbeat (HarperCollins, 2004) and consider sharing this multimedia resource with your students or library patrons.  Creech’s poetic novel in free verse exemplifies the concept of rhythm, and what better…

Poetry Friday: A Poet by Any Other Name

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Teaching poetry? Utilize the TeachingBooks.net Author Name Pronunciation Guide to introduce a new poet to students. By listening to these brief audio clips everyone can learn the correct pronunciation of the poet's name and perhaps get to hear a little bit more about the person behind the poetry being studied.

Poetry Friday: Jack Prelutsky

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In the audio clip below, former Children’s Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky performs a fun poem from his book What a Day It Was at School! (Greenwillow, 2006). Pair this audio performance with an additional read-aloud from Jack’s book, then consider…

Poetry Friday: Karen Hesse

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In the audio clip below, author Karen Hesse reads from her Newbery-winning novel Out of the Dust (Scholastic, 1997), which is written as a poetry cycle. Hesse shares a poem that describes a rare rain during the time of the…

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