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From: Karen Cruze <kcruze>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:08:30 -0600
Just had to enthusiastically agree with Lee about poetry. My father, long before kids were identified as dyslexic, struggled with reading. His near failing grades in high school were a deep source of embarrassment to him since he had high hopes for a good education. Finally his senior year English teacher allowed him to report on poetry. His grades began to soar and she understood that he was actually quite intelligent. It made a real difference for him. My father, born desperately poor in 1931, became an architect, attending Cooper Union in NYC. All his life it was a struggle to read anything long - but he found poetry, hymns, newspapers and magazines enjoyable. As a librarian I encourage teachers and parents to let their struggling readers pick up poetry, and I always mention my father and the difference poetry made in his life.
Karen DeBrulye Cruze Youth Services Librarian Northbrook Public Library Northbrook, IL 60062
At 03:05 PM 11/2/2006, you wrote:
>Let us not forget the power of poetry when it comes to our readers.
>As a teacher working in all grades from kindergarten through to post
>graduate courses I have found that poetry works on any grade, any age level.
>
>It meets interests and abilities of anyone, anywhere, from the most gifted
>to the most reluctant readers; it opens a world of feelings children never
>thought possible, it is a source of love and hope that they can carry with
>them
>the rest of their lives.
>
>Poems are usually short, vocabulary simple ... and, at times ... more can be
>said and heard and felt in 8 or l0 or l2 lines than often an entire novel
>can.
>
>Feed them Frost, savor Sandburg, heartbreak with Hughes; get them into the
>wondrous poets of today ... Grimes, Dotlich, Lewis, Nye; don't forget
>Kuskin,
>McCord, Kennedy, Livingston, Merriam, Moore ... on and on.
>
>Be it dinosaurs or dreams, there are poems out there to reach girls and
>boys. In short, as always, pass the poetry, please!
>
>Lee Bennett Hopkins
>
>_www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com_ (http://www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com)
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Received on Thu 02 Nov 2006 04:08:30 PM CST
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:08:30 -0600
Just had to enthusiastically agree with Lee about poetry. My father, long before kids were identified as dyslexic, struggled with reading. His near failing grades in high school were a deep source of embarrassment to him since he had high hopes for a good education. Finally his senior year English teacher allowed him to report on poetry. His grades began to soar and she understood that he was actually quite intelligent. It made a real difference for him. My father, born desperately poor in 1931, became an architect, attending Cooper Union in NYC. All his life it was a struggle to read anything long - but he found poetry, hymns, newspapers and magazines enjoyable. As a librarian I encourage teachers and parents to let their struggling readers pick up poetry, and I always mention my father and the difference poetry made in his life.
Karen DeBrulye Cruze Youth Services Librarian Northbrook Public Library Northbrook, IL 60062
At 03:05 PM 11/2/2006, you wrote:
>Let us not forget the power of poetry when it comes to our readers.
>As a teacher working in all grades from kindergarten through to post
>graduate courses I have found that poetry works on any grade, any age level.
>
>It meets interests and abilities of anyone, anywhere, from the most gifted
>to the most reluctant readers; it opens a world of feelings children never
>thought possible, it is a source of love and hope that they can carry with
>them
>the rest of their lives.
>
>Poems are usually short, vocabulary simple ... and, at times ... more can be
>said and heard and felt in 8 or l0 or l2 lines than often an entire novel
>can.
>
>Feed them Frost, savor Sandburg, heartbreak with Hughes; get them into the
>wondrous poets of today ... Grimes, Dotlich, Lewis, Nye; don't forget
>Kuskin,
>McCord, Kennedy, Livingston, Merriam, Moore ... on and on.
>
>Be it dinosaurs or dreams, there are poems out there to reach girls and
>boys. In short, as always, pass the poetry, please!
>
>Lee Bennett Hopkins
>
>_www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com_ (http://www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com)
>_______________________________________________
>CCBC-Net mailing list
>CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
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