Author : Allan A. De Fina
Publisher : Wordsong
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A collection of poems about life in the city.
Author : Monica Gunning
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1629791717
From her Caribbean island birthplace, a young girl carries a dream and journeys to a new land that is at once puzzling, frightening, and inspiring. In twenty-three compelling poems, Jamaican-born poet Monica Gunning tells her immigrant's story with gentle humor, grace, and a child's sense of wonder. She describes a place where skyscrapers, rather than the moon, light the night; where people dress in woolens, ready for snow; where no one knows your name. Yet this same place offers exciting treasures: dizzying amusement park rides, stirring symphony concerts, flashy circus performers, towering cathedrals, and captivating art museums that speak to those who linger. Above all, this new land is place where "hope glows, a beacon / guiding ocean-deep dreamers / from storm surfs to shore."
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Wordsong
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
An anthology of poems by Langston Hughes, Jane Yolan, Rachel Field, and others depicts the sights, sounds, and energy of the city.
Author : Shirley McPhillips
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1003843980
In everything we have to understand, poetry can help. Tony Hoagland, Harper's , April 2013 In Poem Central: Word Journeys with Readers and Writers , Shirley McPhillips helps us better understand the central role poetry can play in our personal lives and in the life of our classrooms. She introduces us to professional poets, teachers, and students----people of different ages and walks of life---who are actively engaged in reading and making poems. Their stories and their work show us the power of poems to illuminate the ordinary, to nurture, inspire and stand alongside us for the journey. Poem Central is divided into three main parts-;weaving poetry into our lives and our classrooms, reading poems, and writing poems. McPhillipshas structured the book in short sections that are easy to read and dip into. Each section has a specific focus, provides background knowledge, shows poets at work, highlights information on crafting, defines poetic terms, features finished work, includes classroom examples, and lists additional resources. In Poem Central -; a place where people and poems meet-;teachers and students will discover how to find their way into a poem, have conversations around poems, and learn fresh and exciting ways to make poems. Readers will enjoy the dozens of poems throughout the book that serve to instruct, to inspire, and to send us on unique word journeys of the mind and heart.
Author : Barbara Chatton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0313391270
This comprehensive listing and discussion of poetic works supports the standards of all areas of the curriculum, helping librarians and teachers working with kindergarten through middle school students. This second edition of Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language offers a comprehensive list of poetry anthologies, poetic picture books, and poetic prose works in a wide variety of subject areas. While it maintains the original edition's focus on ideas and resource lists for integration of poetry into all areas of the curriculum, it is thoroughly revised to cover current issues in education and the wealth of new poetry books available. The book is organized by subject areas commonly taught in elementary and middle schools, and, within these, by the national standards in each area. Numerous examples of poetry and poetic prose that can be used to help students understand and appreciate aspects of the standard are listed. A sampling of units that arise from groups of works, writing and performance ideas, and links across the curriculum is also included. While many teaching ideas and topics provide references to the standards they meet, this title is unique in starting with those standards and making links across them.
Author : Susan Davis Lenski
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787288808
Author : Monica Gunning
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590780572
Monica Gunning tells her immigration story through poetry with gentle humor, grace, and a child's sense of wonder.
Author : Hanna Alkaf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1534426108
A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut. Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother’s death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied. A trip to the movies after school turns into a nightmare when the city erupts into violent race riots between the Chinese and the Malay. When gangsters come into the theater and hold movie-goers hostage, Mel, a Malay, is saved by a Chinese woman, but has to leave her best friend behind to die. On their journey through town, Mel sees for herself the devastation caused by the riots. In her village, a neighbor tells her that her mother, a nurse, was called in to help with the many bodies piling up at the hospital. Mel must survive on her own, with the help of a few kind strangers, until she finds her mother. But the djinn in her mind threatens her ability to cope.
Author : Barbara J. Guzzetti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2002-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1851094032
The definitive encyclopedic resource on literacy, literacy instruction, and literacy assessment in the United States. Once upon a time, the three "R"s sufficed. Not any more—not for students, not for Americans. Gone the way of the little red school house is simple reading and writing instruction. Surveying an increasingly complex discipline, Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia offers a comprehensive overview of all the latest trends in literacy education—conceptual understanding of texts, familiarity with electronic content, and the ability to create meaning from visual imagery and media messages. Educators and academicians call these skills "multiple literacies," shorthand for the kind of literacy skills and abilities needed in an age of information overload, media hype, and Internet connectedness. With its 400 A–Z entries, researched by experts and written in accessible prose, Literacy in America is the only reference tool students, teachers, and parents will need to understand what it means to be—and become—literate in 21st-century America.
Author : Emma Pullar
Publisher : Bloodhound+ORM
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1913682137
In the last city in the world, a young woman tries to find the truth when everything she’s ever been told is a lie… When females reach adulthood in Gale City, they’re given the chance to compete at Showcase for the honor of becoming surrogates for the Morbihan—a highly intelligent, obese race of people unable to procreate naturally. All the other girls are excited to become hosts, but not Megan Skyla. Convinced there’s more to life than living under the control of the enigmatic Centrals, Skyla teams up with an unlikely friend and they go in search of a cure for the Morbihan condition. But things don’t go according to plan and their journey becomes a harrowing quest fraught with danger and deceit. She is about to discover that freedom has a price and she’s going to have to fight to survive…
