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    MY INTERACTIVE BOOK OF POEMS: Book 2 - Elementary and Middle School
    MY INTERACTIVE BOOK OF POEMS: Book 2 - Elementary and Middle School
    MY INTERACTIVE BOOK OF POEMS: Book 2 - Elementary and Middle School
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    MY INTERACTIVE BOOK OF POEMS: Book 2 - Elementary and Middle School

    By Patsy Dunstan

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    Parents are you searching for a book that will:

    • Keep your child/children engaged

    • Expose them to a missing learning experience

    • Awaken their interest in the world around them

    • Develop a love for reading

    • Increase creativity

    • Improve critical thinking skills

    • Help children for whom English is a second language

    This book “My Interactive Book of Poems” is the answer. It will satisfy all the above and it is affordable. It may be used in schools or at home.

    • Very often children may spend only a few minutes at an activity and lose interest. This can be frustrating to parents. They’ll voice the age-old complaint, “I’m bored”. With this book, children will look forward to resuming or tackling a new project, usually without prompting, coaxing or bribing.

    • After teaching children of all ages and abilities for many years, I have become a proponent of teaching poetry at every level in schools. For me, poetry became a teaching tool, a way of adding fun, excitement and even sobriety to a lesson in any subject. Teachers can use poetry to inject interest, cooperation and sometimes a little light-heartedness to even the most difficult group, whether the subject is music, language arts, science and even math.

    • Children can be awakened to view the world around them from their vision and see and feel the beauty of even a raindrop or a snowflake. We and our children have the poetic license to see, feel and touch the deeper things of life, to enjoy our Earth with our neighbors.

    • As we expose our children to poetry, they become more aware of themselves and others and realize that words are important to help them communicate. They may not realize it then but they are being propelled to do more for themselves, be better readers and strengthen their ability to communicate. I have heard parents say “I don’t have a creative bone in me and I don’t think my child has either”. What a burden to place on them?- limitation- that will remain with him/her for life. That is far from the truth. We are all creative, but we have placed limitations on our creativity. Poetry breaks that spell and sets us free to be who we truly are.

    Poetry creates critical thinking in the classroom. Through analysis of available facts, evidence, observation and arguments, children are able to form a judgment. I’ll use this original poem which I have written to explain the point.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 13, 2022
    ISBN9781669828167
    MY INTERACTIVE BOOK OF POEMS: Book 2 - Elementary and Middle School
    Author

    Patsy Dunstan

    The author, Patsy Dunstan, could be described as a seasoned educator who has worked with children of all ages for over fifty years. She has taught in Jamaica, The Bahamas and the United States. She has a wealth of experience in igniting the flame in her students for knowledge, resulting in confident and successful students. The author herself fell in love with verse at a young age, a love that has remained with her throughout her life. She agrees with the poet laureates of the United States who are strong advocates of exposing children from an early age to poetry. In Joseph Brodsky’s own words, 1987 Nobel Prize winner in Literature and Poet Laureate of the US from 1991 to 1992, “Poetry must be available to the public in far greater volume than it is.” The author uses this workbook Interactive Alphabet in Verse with a variety of poems, to give children the opportunity to become phenomenal readers and successful individuals. She sees it as her responsibility to help foster a love for reading in children. Poetry is the key to joy-filled learning.

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      MY INTERACTIVE BOOK OF POEMS - Patsy Dunstan

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      MY INTERACTIVE BOOK OF POEMS

      Book 2 - Elementary and

      Middle School

      Patsy Dunstan

      Copyright © 2022 by Patsy Dunstan.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance

      to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only. Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 02/15/2024

      Xlibris

      844-714-8691

      www.Xlibris.com

      839618

      CONTENTS

      Dedications

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Note to Parents

      Note to Teachers

      Note to Children

      How to use this workbook

      SECTION 1

      Shape Poems

      Fat Cat

      My Cap

      Balloon

      My Favorite Fruit

      Square Clock

      Jump Rope

      My Bookbag

      My Bike

      Umbrella

      My ball

      Shape Poems in Verse

      SECTION 2

      Haiku Poems

      Rain

      Trees

      My Pet

      School Days

      Happiness

      My Doll

      Beach

      Baby

      Painting

      Brother

      Pandemic

      SECTION 3

      Acrostic Poems

      Title: H O M E

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      Title: F R I E N D

      SECTION 4

      Rhyming Poems

      Car Wash 1

      A Child’s Response to School Closure

      Loneliness

      My Bicycle

      Grandma

      Summer 1

      Auntie 1

      Stay Home 1

      Stay Home 2

      The Circus Trip

      Rain in May

      Summer 2

      Rain on My Birthday

      SECTION 5

      Free Verse

      What Is Bravery?

      Why?

      Mom

      Have You Ever?

      Dad

      Auntie 2

      Tell Me Why

      Gratitude

      I Celebrate Myself

      Africa

      Car Wash 2

      Spring

      SECTION 6

      Narrative Poems

      The Tree, The Storm, and Me

      The Trip to Nowhere

      Family Reunion

      SECTION 7

      My Vocabulary List

      Figures of Speech

      Poet Laureate of the United States

      New Poet Laureate of the United States

      SECTION 8

      Questions

      Activities

      SECTION 9

      ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

      Sections 1 – 6 and Section 8

      Section 1: Shape Poems

      Section 2: Haiku Poems

      Section 3: Acrostic Poems

      Section 4: Rhyming Poems

      Section 5: Free Verse

      Section 6: Narrative Poems

      Section 8: Activities

      Word Search Answers

      Crossword Puzzle

      About the Author

      DEDICATIONS

      To my children, daughter Yanique and son Dwight, grandchildren Enoa, Ari and Ila, as well as all the children in Jamaica, The Bahamas, and the United States who have touched my life and taught me to love unconditionally.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Yanique Harris- Thank you, Yanique, for your faith in your mom and your constant encouragement, from you were young, to write a book of poems; I’ve finally done it!

      Dothney Chambers- Dothney, thank you for being a trusted, wise and devoted friend for many years. Your support was just what I needed to complete this book.

      Symone Rambaran- I would also like to thank Symone for typing the manuscript. Your help was invaluable. Without your assistance, there would be no published books.

      INTRODUCTION

      What is Poetry?

      Poetry is the art of expressing our thoughts in verse.

      Poetry is all around us and within us.

      The twenty-third

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