Teach Haiku, Close Reading, and Cross-Curricular Learning with Riddle-ku
"Riddle-ku: Haiku for Very Close Reading" makes teaching haiku to children easy with 30 American-style (5-7-5) haiku by award-winning poet Laura Purdie Salas (author of "BookSpeak ," "Water Can Be...," and more). Each haiku speaks from the voice of a common object recognizable to kids from kindergarten age up. These riddle poems make excellent close reading passages, as students study images and text and make inferences to answer them. A Note from the Poet with each poem shares Laura's writing process. Vivid...
Teach Haiku, Close Reading, and Cross-Curricular Learning with Riddle-ku
"Riddle-ku: Haiku for Very Close Reading" makes teaching haiku to child...
"What does this poem mean?" "How should I read it?" "How do we talk about it?" "What do I DO with it?" "What's the best way to assess it?" "How do I meet standards?" "When can I possibly fit it into my already over-packed day?"
Have you ever asked these questions about poetry? The 30 Painless Classroom Poems series makes it easy for you, the elementary school teacher, media specialist, or reading specialist, to share poetry with your students. Whether you already love poetry or you fear or even actively dislike it, these books are for you. The poems, Notes...
"What does this poem mean?" "How should I read it?" "How do we talk about it?" "What do I DO with it?" "What's the best way to ass...
Picture books are especially close to to the hearts of Lisa Bullard and Laura Purdie Salas. They've been fortunate enough to work with fantastic editors on the way to having their own published. And over the years, they've coached hundreds of other picture book writers, offering them feedback about how they can make their manuscripts stronger and more marketable in today's competitive publishing environment. There are 10 key concerns that they end up addressing over and over again when they do picture book critiques. Many manuscripts have 2 or 3 of these problems in place-and almost every...
Picture books are especially close to to the hearts of Lisa Bullard and Laura Purdie Salas. They've been fortunate enough to work with fantastic edito...
"What does this poem mean?" "How should I read it?" "How do we talk about it?" "What do I DO with it?" "What's the best way to assess it?" "How do I meet standards?" "When can I possibly fit it into my already over-packed day?"
Have you ever asked these questions about poetry? The 30 Painless Classroom Poems series makes it easy for you, the elementary school teacher, media specialist, or reading specialist, to share poetry with your students. Whether you already love poetry or you fear or even actively dislike it, these books are for you. The poems, Notes...
"What does this poem mean?" "How should I read it?" "How do we talk about it?" "What do I DO with it?" "What's the best way to ass...
"What does this poem mean?" "How should I read it?" "How do we talk about it?" "What do I DO with it?" "What's the best way to assess it?" "How do I meet standards?" "When can I possibly fit it into my already over-packed day?"
Have you ever asked these questions about poetry? The 30 Painless Classroom Poems series makes it easy for you, the elementary school teacher, media specialist, or reading specialist, to share poetry with your students. Whether you already love poetry or you fear or even actively dislike it, these books are for you. The poems, Notes...
"What does this poem mean?" "How should I read it?" "How do we talk about it?" "What do I DO with it?" "What's the best way to ass...
"What does this poem mean?" "How should I read it?" "How do we talk about it?" "What do I DO with it?" "What's the best way to assess it?" "How do I meet standards?" "When can I possibly fit it into my already over-packed day?"
Have you ever asked these questions about poetry? The 30 Painless Classroom Poems series makes it easy for you, the elementary school teacher, media specialist, or reading specialist, to share poetry with your students. Whether you already love poetry or you fear or even actively dislike it, these books are for you. The poems, Notes...
"What does this poem mean?" "How should I read it?" "How do we talk about it?" "What do I DO with it?" "What's the best way to ass...
Rhyming picture books often become childhood favorites and sometimes bestsellers. But many editors claim they won't even consider a manuscript in rhyme. What's going on? These engaging read-alouds appear deceptively simple. But they are, in fact, extremely difficult to write well. Most of the submissions that editors receive are ineffective and not ready for publication. Enter this guide. Laura Purdie Salas and Lisa Bullard have both had rhyming picture books successfully published. Here, they lead writers through 10 possible ways to make their rhyming picture book more salable. Check out all...
Rhyming picture books often become childhood favorites and sometimes bestsellers. But many editors claim they won't even consider a manuscript in rhym...
Sixty-four poems by former teacher and award-winning poet and children's writer Laura Purdie Salas capture moments--silly, bizarre, heartbreaking, and humorous moments--in a teacher's life. They were inspired by her childhood teachers, her own teaching experience, her children's teachers, her sister (a long-time elementary school teacher) and all the fabulous educators (teachers, librarians, media specialists, reading specialists, etc.) she knows who give everything they've got to make their students stronger, happier, and smarter.
Notes at the end of the collection share...
Sixty-four poems by former teacher and award-winning poet and children's writer Laura Purdie Salas capture moments--silly, bizarre, heartbreaking, ...
