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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:57:00 -600
Anne Oelke mentioned finding a poem to go with a particular day or circumstance, pairing a poem with a story, etc. These are ideal ways to incorporate a poem into everyone's experience or environment for learning every day.
Anne's comment reminds me of a favorite professional resources about poetry: A Chorus of Cultures: Developing Literacy through Multicultural Poetry. Hampton-Brown Books, 1993 (Phone 1?033510 for information.) This practical seasonal spiral bound anthology organized according to months and days contains a bxw camera ready poem for each day. It's much more than this, though, because it's an anthology for adults containing brief across-the-curriculum activies, first person introductions to poets, poems by children as well as generally recognized poets, material about selecting and presenting poetry, activities related to the themes, a broad definition of
"multicultural," and many indexes to aid in finding poems for seasons and seasonal celebrations quickly, including an index of poems for ESL instruction. Although it's part of a set of materials about cultures and poetry, the anthology can be purchased separately - it's expensive but well worth it in my experience.
How can I mention A Chorus of Cultures without referring to a poem? I can't! Copyright laws prohibit me from copying these short poems in their entirety, so you'll need to find them yourselves. Here's a sense of what the book offers, however. The theme during the week of Feb. 18" is Friendship. Charlotte Zolotow's short poem
"The New Girl" for young children is featured, as is Langston Hughes' classic "Poem" about a friend who went away and 4th grader Maria Rendon's reflection "Friends." I hope your school district or public library already has a copy of A Chorus of Cultures for you to examine and use. Poetry every day, every way. I cannot imagine a day without a poem, but maybe that's because at one point a teacher I admired found a way to incorporate a poem into our every day. You can do this, too. And you are, by making such good suggestions to each other and asking questions each other about "lost" poems, as well. Keep it up. Sincerely, Ginny
*********************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
(www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/)
Received on Thu 13 Feb 1997 08:57:00 AM CST
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:57:00 -600
Anne Oelke mentioned finding a poem to go with a particular day or circumstance, pairing a poem with a story, etc. These are ideal ways to incorporate a poem into everyone's experience or environment for learning every day.
Anne's comment reminds me of a favorite professional resources about poetry: A Chorus of Cultures: Developing Literacy through Multicultural Poetry. Hampton-Brown Books, 1993 (Phone 1?033510 for information.) This practical seasonal spiral bound anthology organized according to months and days contains a bxw camera ready poem for each day. It's much more than this, though, because it's an anthology for adults containing brief across-the-curriculum activies, first person introductions to poets, poems by children as well as generally recognized poets, material about selecting and presenting poetry, activities related to the themes, a broad definition of
"multicultural," and many indexes to aid in finding poems for seasons and seasonal celebrations quickly, including an index of poems for ESL instruction. Although it's part of a set of materials about cultures and poetry, the anthology can be purchased separately - it's expensive but well worth it in my experience.
How can I mention A Chorus of Cultures without referring to a poem? I can't! Copyright laws prohibit me from copying these short poems in their entirety, so you'll need to find them yourselves. Here's a sense of what the book offers, however. The theme during the week of Feb. 18" is Friendship. Charlotte Zolotow's short poem
"The New Girl" for young children is featured, as is Langston Hughes' classic "Poem" about a friend who went away and 4th grader Maria Rendon's reflection "Friends." I hope your school district or public library already has a copy of A Chorus of Cultures for you to examine and use. Poetry every day, every way. I cannot imagine a day without a poem, but maybe that's because at one point a teacher I admired found a way to incorporate a poem into our every day. You can do this, too. And you are, by making such good suggestions to each other and asking questions each other about "lost" poems, as well. Keep it up. Sincerely, Ginny
*********************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
(www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/)
Received on Thu 13 Feb 1997 08:57:00 AM CST
