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[psvid] “The Guy in the Closet” (Heidi Bee Roemer)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from The Poetry Friday Anthology (Common Core K-5 edition): Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core?(Pomelo, 2013), edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong, one of my very favorite anthologies to recommend to teachers because […]

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One Book I Love: Whose Nest Is This? (Heidi Roemer)

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OK, usually my One Book I Love posts are just a cover and a brief excerpt of a book I love (no surprise there!). But today, I have a special treat. You get not only some excerpts of a wonderful book but also an interview with the author, the fabulously creative Heidi Bee Roemer. I […]

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Poetry Friday: Icicles (Heidi B. Roemer)

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  I learned recently that Heidi B. Roemer, whose poems I always enjoy in Lee Bennett Hopkins’ outstanding anthologies, has books out! I had no idea! I recently read Come to My Party: and Other Shape Poems (Henry Holt, 2004). It’s organized by season and full of very cute poems for very young kids. I […]

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