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Beyond Words: Writing Poems with Children
Third Edition, 2004 Elizabeth McKim and Judith Steinbergh
PRICE: $20

This guide for teachers and parents structures an approach for teaching children to appreciate and write poems. A sequence of 28 writing sessions takes students from the basic skills of observation and sense image to metaphor and symbol, while exploring broad themes. Model poems by adult poets, an informal guide to presenting each lesson, a broad range of student examples, and an extensive bibliography by grade level will help teachers and parents encourage young writers. Beyond Words is used widely in public and private schools and university education departments throughout the nation.

Get Ready for Boston! Exploring Boston and Its Neighborhoods in Songs, Poems, and Stories
Conceived and produced by Victor Cockburn and Judith Steinbergh
PRICE: $29.95

A Multicultural Guide to Boston for Families. This is Boston, the way you've never heard it before. Get Ready for Boston! is two CDs of 47 lively, moving songs, spirited poems and engaging stories by Boston artists that spotlight and celebrate Boston's history, attractions and neighborhoods, including: the New England Aquarium, the Freedom Trail, Fenway Park, Faneuil Hall and more. The CDs are filled with original work by over 80 noted artists including: Tribal Rhythms, Geoffrey Dana Hicks, Janice Allen, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, alias Click and Clack of NPR's Car Talk and many others. The recording contains a 76 page booklet with lyrics and text, resources and activities to guide families' and students' exploration of Boston.

Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers
Fredric Lown and Judith Steinbergh
Grades 7-12 and ESL
Weston Walch Books, 1996
PRICE: $25

This text for teachers of grades 7-12 is a comprehensive curriculum for reading, discussing, writing and revising poetry with students, presented in eight thematic chapters: Nature, Animals, Sports, Childhood and Growing up, Family and Relationships, Social and Global Issues, Form and Content, and Praise Poems and Odes. It provides a collection of poems by classical and contemporary poets from diverse cultures, as well as discussion questions, writing exercises, student examples, and guidelines for revision. This text, with its wealth of resources, can be used in many ways: as an 8-week poetry unit, as a sequence over several grades, or by integrating selected sections with courses in science, history, English or ESL classes.

Reading and Writing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers Grades K-4
Judith Steinbergh
Scholastic Books, 1994
PRICE: $20

This poetry guide, a perfect companion to Beyond Words, presents a simple approach to enjoying poetry with young children in pre-school and early grades. Exercises engage children in reading, moving to, acting out, and discussing poems. A lovely multicultural selection of poetry is included. Children will learn to identify techniques used by poets and try some of these in their own poems. Many poetry activities can be integrated into science and social studies units.

Where I Come From! Songs and Poems from Many Cultures
Selected and Arranged by Judith Steinbergh and Victor Cockburn
Grades K- 6
2 CDs: Lyrics, Poetry, and Activity Book
PRICE: $29.95

This engaging collection offers 63 songs and poems sung or spoken in English, Chinese, Arabic, Akan (Ghanaian), French, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese. Pieces are performed by over 50 singers, musicians, and writers. The two recordings are arranged by six themes: Songs, Poems and Chants from Many Cultures; Home and Community; Family and Culture; Using Your Senses; Inspiration; and Seasons and Nature. This unique collection is an invaluable addition to home and classroom. Where I Come From! introduces children and adults to the beauty of the spoken and sung word from diverse cultures, expressing common themes through poetry, music and song. The CD package is two full hours of listening, and also includes an activity booklet with poems, lyrics and translations for teachers and parents.

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