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This book lets us dig into a different culture and make connections even if it is not our culture. While also teaching our students about the different history. We can also use this book to teach about poetry.

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Brown Angels by Walter Dean Myers | Scholastic

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This is a collection of poems, accompanied by photographs, about African-American children living around the turn of the century.

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This book ties in to the students funds of knowledge by looking at their food from home while still looking at poetry.

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In this new cooking poem, Jorge Argueta brings us a fun and easy recipe for a yummy salsa. A young boy and his sister gather the ingredie...

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This books shows the different ways that you can write a poem. For example you can write them in a different shape or around different objects it has great example.

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Poetrees has 265 ratings and 77 reviews. Ann said: Poetrees is an anthology of poetry by Douglas Florian. It contains nineteen poems about the parts of a...

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This is the hardest book that I chose. It is poems for Civil Rights Leaders. This book is great to show meaning behind poems and figurative language, while still telling a story.

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When Thunder Comes has 212 ratings and 76 reviews. Betsy said: Poetry is of the people by its very definition. Though sometimes considered the property o...

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This book has the text that is going to be my dictado. This book also known as Where the Sidewalk Ends is a great book full of poems for the students to look through.

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Where the Sidewalk Ends has 1,061,556 ratings and 9,662 reviews. Steve said: His parents did well naming him Shel.He never did care to conform.What wou...

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This is the only book that I am using that is not written in a poem. I am using this because of the parts of speech it uses like onomatopoeia.

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This will be my anchor text for the Lesson
This book is a great example to the students that not every poem will rhyme completely their are different styles of poems. This will be used during an interactive read aloud for the class. They will have the opportunity to identify rhyming words while being careful this is a tricky text. Also full of figurative language and will be a great example throughout our unit.

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On the Night You Were Born has 12,667 ratings and 477 reviews. Jenn said: My daughter was born 4 months premature and only weighed 11 ounces. The doctors...

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This book is in both English and Spanish. This ties in to the culture of most students in my classroom who could have someone reading this to them. This book will be a great take home book for them to read with their parents.

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spanish bilingual social studies cultures and experiences hispanic rhyme rhyming story nursery rhymes stories fingerplay finger play

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Tortillas for Mama / Tortillitas para mamá

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Packed with vibrant, full-color illustrations and a bilingual text that is rich in musicality and Latin-American culture, this book makes learning a playful experience for everyone. Given that these rhymes have been passed from generation to generation, this book can be used to talk about what young readers have been taught from their parents or grandparents, whether it is a song, story, or poem.

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We are heading towards mothers day so this could provide the students with some inspiration if they wish to write their mother their final poem. This is a great book that shows everything that we will be learning about poems, like symbolism, figurative language, similes, and metaphors.  Even if they did not want to write about their Mom this is a great example to look at for anything that they are writing.

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Mother Poems has 67 ratings and 33 reviews. Betsy said: The book had me fooled. I opened it up and had the notion that what I was dealing with here was j...