Thanks so much for having me come share poetry and especially STEM poetry with you at your annual conference! I love to share ways to use poetry in the kindergarten classroom. Here are some of the resources and books I talked about, and I hope you’ll find them useful.
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The Synergy of Poetry and Content Areas: Reading Across the Curriculum [article in JCL]
Poetry Across the Curriculum [handout from Master Class at NCTE]
Reading and Discussing Poetry in the Primary Classroom [blog post by me]
Things To Do if You Are a… template
Books Listed in Presentation
A Leaf Can Be…, by Laura Purdie Salas
Water Can Be…, by Laura Purdie Salas
A Rock Can Be…, by Laura Purdie Salas
If You Were the Moon, by Laura Purdie Salas
A Stick Is an Excellent Thing, by Marilyn Singer
Book of Nature Poetry, by J. Patrick Lewis
Can You Dig It, by Robert Weinstock
Firefly July, by Paul. B. Janeczko
Flutter and Hum, by Julie Paschkis
Forest Has a Song, by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, by Adam Rex
Fresh Delicious, by Irene Latham
Guyku, by Bob Raczka
Hallowilloween, by Calef Brown
Hotel Deep, by Kurt Cyrus
In the Wild, by David Elliott
Lullaby and Kisses Sweet, by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Monsterologist, by Bobbi Katz
One Minute Till Bedtime, by Kenn Nesbitt
Our Food, by Grace Lin
Pirates, by David L. Harrison
Poetrees, by Douglas Florian
Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations, by Vardell/Wong
Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong
Poetry Friday Anthology, ed. by Sylvia Vardell & Janet Wong
Poetry Lessons to Meet the Common Core State Standards, by Georgia Heard
Science Verse, by Jon Scieszka
Sharing the Seasons, by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Swing Around the Sun, by Barbara Juster Esbensen
Valentine Hearts, by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Won Ton, by Lee Wardlaw
World’s Greatest, by J. Patrick Lewis