When we stop to listen, poetry is all around us: in the rhythms that we walk, in the music that we listen to, in the natural world we experience. Fortunately, National Poetry Month gives us space to make this a curricular focus.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…