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Suggested Reading List

  • "Talking Walls" by Margy Burns Knight
  • "Talking Walls: The Stories Continue" by Margy Burns Knight
  • "Stone Wall Secrets" by Kristine and Robert Thorson
  • "Wake Up, World! : A Day in the Life of Children Around the World" by Beatrice Hollyer
  • "Hello World!" by Manya Stojic
  • "If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People" by David J. Smith
  • "The Wall" by Eve Bunting
  • "Tillie and the Wall" by Leo Lionni
  • "The Other Side" by Jacqueline Woodson
  • "Children Just Like Me" by Barnabas Kindersley
  • "Market!" by Ted Lewin
  • "Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World" by Selby Beeler
  • "Material World: A Global Family Portrait" by Peter Menzel

Who Am I? Poetry:

  • "If I Were in Charge of the World" by Judith Viorst,
  • "When I Am Full of Silence" by Jack Prelutsky,
  • "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • "Our Children" by Nancy Walker.
     

Getting to Know Ourselves Poetry:

  • By Myself" by Eloise Greenfield
  • "State of Mind" by Anonymous
  • "It Can't Be Done" by Anonymous
  • "Be the Best" by Douglas Malloch
  • "pebbles" by Valerie Worth
  • "When I Am Full of Silence" by Jack Prelutsky
  • "Colors" by Shel Silverstein
  • "Listen to the Mustn'ts" by Shel Silverstein
  • "If I Were in Charge of the World" by Judith Viorst
  • "My Name" by Lee Bennett Hopkins
  • "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou
  • "The Things That Haven't Been Done Before" by Edgar Guest
  • "We Have Not Wings" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • "When I Think About Myself" by Maya Angelou
  • "the drum" by Nikki Giovanni
  • "What Women Are" by Nancy Wood
  • "We Moved About a Week Ago" by Jack Prelutsky
  • "Different Dreams" by Karla Kushkin
  • "A Lazy Thought" by Eve Merriam
  • "Listen Children" by Lucille Clifton
  • "The Other Way to Listen" by Byrd Baylor
  • "Rules" by Karla Kushkin
  • "Sadie and Maud" by Gwendolyn Brooks

Finding Your Voice Poetry:

  • Paul Fleischman's Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
  • Paul Fleischman's Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices,
  • Jane Yolen's Dear Mother, Dear Daughter

*Poetry suggestions from: http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Broughton/Poetryunit.html

 


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