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Books Can Be a Tool of Peace

<img src="/images/default-source/reading-today/my-hearting-is-laughing_cover-th.jpg"/>Members of the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group offer some book suggestions for titles encouraging a peaceful resolution to conflict. If all else fails, read and share a book.

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2014/07/28/-books-can-be-a-tool-of-peace

wearing white, writing very bad poetry, and refusing to communicate via the telephone, but she, poet's spirit is helping her, Emily begins to write poetry. With every line, readers are able to count

Book Reviews: Getting the Year Started With a Good Book

<img src="/images/default-source/reading-today/chus-first-day-th.jpg"/>This week the members of the Children’s Literature SIG present books encompassing diverse life experiences for students of all ages. Some of these experiences are familiar, but many are novel and enriching, encouraging more learning moments for the students as they return to school.</p>

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2014/08/25/book-reviews-getting-the-year-started-with-a-good-book

Iyer, Washington State University Pullman Nelson, Marilyn. (2014). How I Discovered Poetry. Illus. by Hadley Hooper. NewYork, NY: Dial Books. Some students may have discovered poetry during

Books That Bring History Into Context

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https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2015/04/27/books-that-bring-history-into-context

and directed a Hollywood film. Gordon also wrote novels and composed music and poetry, but he is famous, , and genres, including poetry. The stories will prompt readers to question the impact and damage

Debut Authors and Illustrators

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https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2019/04/15/debut-authors-and-illustrators

. Alastair, a cantankerous grey parrot, who composes original poetry based on books he’s eaten, writes letters to her dearly departed husband, adopts Alastair. Leonardo uses free verse poetry

Book Reviews: Getting the Year Started With a Good Book

<img src="/images/default-source/reading-today/chus-first-day-th.jpg"/>This week the members of the Children’s Literature SIG present books encompassing diverse life experiences for students of all ages. Some of these experiences are familiar, but many are novel and enriching, encouraging more learning moments for the students as they return to school.</p>

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2014/08/25/book-reviews-getting-the-year-started-with-a-good-book

Iyer, Washington State University Pullman Nelson, Marilyn. (2014). How I Discovered Poetry. Illus. by Hadley Hooper. NewYork, NY: Dial Books. Some students may have discovered poetry during

Write What You Want to Know

Certain teachers stand out in your mind, even forty years after the fact. My fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Dietz, sent me a note when I graduated, asking if I still wrote poetry. And Mr. Perkins, my seventh grade social studies teacher, never flinched away from my essays—even when they were about topics like me mourning my yet-to-blossom bosoms. I still have two essays I wrote for him, not-very-neatly printed on lined paper, kept for the circled A at the top.

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2013/04/17/write-what-you-want-to-know

Certain teachers stand out in your mind, even forty years after the fact. My fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Dietz, sent me a note when I graduated, asking if I still wrote poetry. And Mr. Perkins, my seventh grade social studies teacher, never flinched away from my essays—even when they were about topics like me mourning my yet-to-blossom bosoms. I still have two essays I wrote for him, not-very-neatly printed on lined paper, kept for the circled A at the top. And then there were a half-dozen

Stretching into a New Year

With the New Year, as we are setting goals related to our health and well-being, we are both focusing on pilates. Kim’s interest has evolved through years of practicing pilates regularly. Jan’s interest is new, and arises with fresh concern (and discomfort) associated with sitting in front of a computer for hours each day and getting very little exercise at all.

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2013/01/22/stretching-into-a-new-year

, poetry, ideas, lessons, and laughs. We hope you can join us! Jan Miller Burkins is the founder

5 Questions With... Matt de la Peña (I WILL SAVE YOU)

Matt de la Peña is the author of four critically-acclaimed young adult novels (BALL DON'T LIE, MEXICAN WHITEBOY, WE WERE HERE and I WILL SAVE YOU, which was released in paperback earlier this week) and one picture book (A NATION’S HOPE: THE STORY OF BOXING LEGEND JOE LOUIS, illustrated by Kadir Nelson).

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2011/11/11/5-questions-with-matt-de-la-peña-(i-will-save-you)

roots in a way. I started out writing a lot of spoken word, street-style poetry. But my poems ran

Building Content Literacy with Math Word Problems

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2012/11/26/building-content-literacy-with-math-word-problems

interests include sharing multiethnic literature, creating poetry with young children, and developing

Annual Convention Monday Afternoon Highlights

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2012/04/30/annual-convention-monday-afternoon-highlights

:30 p.m. The popular Poetry Olio is at 7:30 p.m. at the Chicago Hilton & Towers. Reminders Event