Teaching Ideas
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Resource Ideas
Share Chris Raschka’s Meet-the-Author Movie describing how concrete poetry—“the yoga of words”—creates images in a new way.
Consider this Audio Excerpt from The Crossover by Kwame Alexander to model the nuances of reading poetry aloud.
Access lesson and activity ideas in the Educator’s Guide from Teaching Latin America through Literature for Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings.
Celebrate award-winning poetry with this list of Lee Bennett Hopkins Award winners.
