Poems as Art, Art as Poems

Poems and Rhyme are Literary Access Points for All

Chicken Soup with Rice book cover

This story stems from the age-old text Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months by Maurice Sendak and the linear calendar. Starting in September at the beginning of the school year, we read the monthly poem multiple times per week. We reread, act out, sing…

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Jordan Wright
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