From: Neal Porter <neal_at_nporterbooks.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:13:37 -0400

Kate, Have you been following this thread on CCBC.net? Interesting stuff. And a belated Happy Birthday. So sorry I missed the festivities yesterday. N


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1. RE: ccbc-net digest: April 19, 2011 2. Re: Reading Aloud and Poetry


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Subject: RE: ccbc-net digest: April 19, 2011 From: David Harrison Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:40:44 -0500 X-Message-Number: 1

Has anyone mentioned reading partner poems aloud? I've been in and out of schools as a visiting poet/author since the early 70s and one of my favorit e activities is to engage students, teachers, and parents in reading poems with two or more voices.

Few things I do provoke as many smiles and giggles. Nearly every hand in th e room shoots up when I ask for the next readers. Last week I did a parents' night in Toledo and it was great fun to see moms and dads reading with various children who begged to be readers in front of an audience.

Reading poetry aloud is one of the best exercises for developing fluency, vocabulary, and understanding. Dr. Timothy Rasinski (Kent State) and others believe that partner poems can make a real difference. Combining something that's good for you with something that's fun is a hard combination to beat . I co-wrote a book with Rasinski and Gay Fawcett (Partner Poems for Building Fluency) that provides forty original partner poems. Paul Fleischman's Make a Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices won a Newbery in 1989. Georgia Heard has some lovely poems for two voices in Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky. Bobbi Katz has written a book that contains partner poems and which is also called Partner Poems for Building Fluency.

David Harrison

http://davidlharrison.wordpress.com /


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CCBC-NET Digest for Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

1. PEN World Voices Festival event featuring children's books authors

2. Reading Aloud and Poetry

3. Re: Reading Aloud and Poetry

4. Re: Reading Aloud and Poetry

5. Re: Reading Aloud and Poetry

6. RE: ccbc-net digest: April 18, 2011

7. poetry out loud

8. Re: Reading Aloud and Poetry

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Subject: PEN World Voices Festival event featuring children's books authors

From: Kathleen Horning

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:09:52 -0500

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*PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature*

*New York City, April 25-May 1, 2011*

More than 100 writers from 40 nations will convene to New York City to

celebrate the power of the writer's voice as a bold and vital element of

public discourse. Don't miss an exciting week of cross-cultural

exchange, including panel discussions, one-on-one conversations,

readings, performances, and much more. With *Gioconda Belli, Harold

Bloom, Ernesto Cardenal, Deborah Eisenberg, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm

Gladwell, Hanif Kureishi, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Andrea Levy, Amйlie

Nothomb, Cynthia Ozick, Salman Rushdie, Elif Shafak, Wallace

Shawn, Vladimir Sorokin, Wole Soyinka, Irvine Welsh, and Edmund White*,

among many others._ Check out our complete schedule of events._

*EVENTS FEATURING CHILDREN BOOK AUTHORS:*

Who Tells the Story? Children's Book Authors Talk About Voice*

*When*: Thursday, April 28

*Where: *Greenwich House Music School, Renee Weiler Concert Hall, 46

Barrow St., New York City

*What time*: 7:30 - 9 p.m.

With *Giaconda Belli, Peter Lerangis *and *Rebecca Stead*; moderated by

*Lisa von Drasek*.

Must the writer get inside the head of the child in order to find an

authentic voice for a young character? Or does the authentic voice come

from someplace else? Three distinguished writers share ideas about how

their lives shape their books. With Nicaraguan novelist and poet

Gioconda Belli, author of the children's book /The Butterfly Workshop/;

Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medalist and author of the /New York Times/

bestseller /When You Reach Me/; and Peter Lerangis, author of 160 books

for children and young adults, including two in the /New York

Times/--bestselling series /The 39 Clues/. Moderated by Lisa Von Drasek,

Children's Librarian at the Bank Street College of Educations, blogger

for EarlyWord.com, and contributor to the /Barnes and Noble Review./

/Co-sponsored by PEN Children's and Young Adult Committee /

*Tickets:* $10/$5 PEN Members, students with valid ID. Call _(866)

811-4111_ or visit _pen.org_

_Check out our complete schedule of events._


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Subject: Reading Aloud and Poetry

From: Megan Schliesman

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:27:47 -0500

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Thanks you for everyone who has been contributing to the discussion on

reading aloud, sharing your philosophies, stories and memories, and

favorite read-aloud titles.

Let's use reading aloud as a launching point for the discussion for the

rest of this month: Poetry Spoken (and Read!) Here.

How do you share and encourage children and teens to read and share

poetry? Do you read it aloud in the classroom or library? Do you look

for poems to incorporate into story times, discussion groups, or the

curriculum? Do you encourage poetry writing along with poetry reading?

During the second half of April (which is National Poetry Month), we

invite you to share a few lines about using poetry with children and teens.

My CCBC colleague Merri Lindgren and I have been doing a lot of

bookstalks to librarians and teachers in recent months, and one of our

favorite books to highlight is "Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's

Survivors" by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beckie Prange (Houghton

Mifflin, 2010). I've heard Merri read the poem "Tail Tale" from this

book many times and never get tired of listening to it. And I relish

opportunities to read it myself. I did this most recently at the end of

dinner at my house, to my daughter, husband and a friend eating over.

It's a poem that is a delight to read and a delight to listen to, and

made me realize that I really need to make more time for reading poetry

out loud at home, and meals are a perfect opportunity to do this.

Megan

-- 
Megan Schliesman, Librarian 
Cooperative Children's Book Center 
School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 
Madison, WI 53706 
608/262-9503 
schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu 
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ 
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Subject: Re: Reading Aloud and Poetry 
From: BudNotBuddy_at_aol.com 
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:58:14 -0400 (EDT) 
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If poetry is something we bring out once a year, then we demonstrate that 
it is as relevant to our daily lives -- and to young people's lives -- as 
is, say, Vasco da Gama or Roman numerals or the Periodic Table of Elements . 
If we seek out poetry, read poetry, memorize and recite poetry, accumulate 
our own personal anthologies of poetry, and share the poems that are 
meaningful to us with others then, like music, poetry becomes part of the 
soundtrack of our lives -- and of the lives of young people with whom we are in 
contact. 
Richie Partington, MLIS 
Richie's Picks _http://richiespicks.com_ (http://richiespicks.com/) 
author, I Second That Emotion: Sharing Children's and Young Adult Poetry, 
a 21st century resource guide for teachers and librarians 
BudNotBuddy_at_aol.com 
Moderator, _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/_ 
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Subject: Re: Reading Aloud and Poetry 
From: smithhemb_at_aol.com 
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:14:34 -0400 (EDT) 
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My daughter's 7th grade English teacher does a "March Madness" unit on poetry. Each student brings in a poem s/he really likes (it could be one they've written themselves) and the poems assigned to a tableau like the ones used in sports tournaments. Each student is given another student's submission to learn and to present to the class. Poems are read in pairs and then voted upon. Each winner goes on to another match until the brackets narrow to the final two. 
What amazed me about this assignment was how much poetry got read by how many people (and with how little involvement was required on the teacher's part -- a good thing, to my mind). My daughter and I spent a couple of hours going through collections and reading poems to each other for consideration. When my parents heard about the assignment, which overlappe d spring break, they started volunteering suggestions, which led my Dad to spend some time tracking down half-remembered poems he'd loved. My daughte r ended up writing a poem, but rejecting it in favor of Auden's "The Unknown Citizen." She then she memorized another poem written by a classmate, and listened to all the submissions, coming home particularly impressed by Blake's "The Tyger." 
This isn't the only work they do with poetry, but it provided a context for using everything else they learned and it showed them that people know and love poems long after they've been assigned to read them in school. 
Up until now, I think the poetry my kid has most enjoyed reading in school has all been assigned in French class. Perhaps because while the vocabular y and syntax is fairly simple, the ideas have been more sophisticated than what she's encountered when she's been assigned what I'd call childrens' poetry in English classes. 
Sue Hemberger 
Washington, DC 
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From: Megan Schliesman 
To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of 
Sent: Tue, Apr 19, 2011 6:28 am 
Subject: 
 Reading Aloud and Poetry 
Thanks you for everyone who has been contributing to the discussion on reading aloud, sharing your philosophies, stories and memories, and favorite read-aloud titles. 
Let's use reading aloud as a launching point for the discussion for the rest of this month: Poetry Spoken (and Read!) Here. 
How do you share and encourage children and teens to read and share poetry? Do you read it aloud in the classroom or library? Do you look fo r poems to incorporate into story times, discussion groups, or the curriculum? Do you encourage poetry writing along with poetry reading? During the second half of April (which is National Poetry Month), we invite you to share a few lines about using poetry with children and teens. 
My CCBC colleague Merri Lindgren and I have been doing a lot of bookstalks to librarians and teachers in recent months, and one of our favorite books to highlight is "Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors" by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beckie Prange (Houghton Mifflin, 2010). I've heard Merri read the poem "Tail Tale" from this book many times and never get tired of listening to it. And I relish opportunities to read it myself. I did this most recently at the end of dinner at my house, to my daughter, husband and a friend eating over. It's a poem that is a delight to read and a delight to listen to, and made me realize that I really need to make more time for reading poetry out loud at home, and meals are a perfect opportunity to do this. 
Megan 
-- 
Megan Schliesman, Librarian 
Cooperative Children's Book Center 
School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 
Madison, WI 53706 
608/262-9503 
schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu 
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ 
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