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Beowulf as Children's Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of adapting the Old English poem into textual and pictorial forms that appeal to children, past and present.

The connection between childhood and poetry runs deep. And yet, poetry written for children has been neglected by criticism and resists prevailing theories of children’s literature. Drawing on Walter Ong’s theory of orality and on Iain McGilChrist’s work on brain function, this book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children’s poetry. From Tongue to Text argues that the poem is a multimodal form that exists in the borderlands between the world of experience and the world of language and between orality and literacy – places that children themselves inhabit. Engaging with a wide range of poetry from nursery rhymes and Christina Rossetti to Michael Rosen and Carol Ann Duffy, Debbie Pullinger demonstrates how these ‘tactful’ works are shaped by the dynamics of orality and textuality.

Teaching for social responsibility with good books does far more than encourage civic participation; it redefines the purpose of school and empowers all of us—students, teachers, administrators, parents—to be better people and live more fulfilling lives.

The authors had the most fantastic teachable moment when they shared book club time with 24 students they teach at Health Sciences High and Middle College. As they reflect on their conversation with the students, they are convinced that the impetus for the students' interest in what they were reading and discussing with their peers was that they followed the lead of the students when they asked if they could partner with them to choose the texts, the topics, and the assignments for their English class. In this article, the authors detail how this happened. (Contains 3 figures.)

Examines the elements that separate poetry from good prose. The video class demonstrates two qualities of poetry - rhythm and imagery - by writing a collaborative poem. Viewers learn different ways to arrange the classroom for choral poetry reading and discuss the value of reading poetry aloud. Video class participants share their favorite poems and give their opinions on the poetry writing experience. Featured author: Shel Silverstein.

Describes how students in a juvenile detention center became deeply involved in reading through Book Club, which offered them identity, established an environment for peer approval and recognition, and gave them a chance to excel. (SR)

It is a Friday afternoon, some time in 1910. Elsie Hernsbusher, the blacksmith’s daughter, puts down her book and walks to the recitation bench. Both of Elsie’s grandfathers were born in Germany, but she and her parents are all natives of the United States, and the family speaks English at home. Now, in front of her schoolmates in the small town of Darien, Wisconsin (pop. 1,249), the twelve-year-old girl prepares to break the silence. On another afternoon in the same year, nearly four thousand miles away in Yorkshire, a boy named Charles William Bond is also on the brink of

Wold was in rare courtroom form, channeling Clarence Darrow and summoning up images of conniving, overbearing government, a corrupt and dishonest cop (who was fired after the Target Field arrests for lying in another case) and a sniveling snitch \"camouflaged as a Twins fan\" who hoped to further his career and get his jollies by taking down a couple of old beer peddlers. Why do you know McNeil and Stepnick sold to minors? Because they told you, snapped Gushwa.

[...] the ongoing construction has left convenience store owner JoJu Thomas with lagging sales and tax bills that have not lagged. All property owners on that stretch of Cherry Road were paid under federal guidelines for the road widening, and that payment included loss of use during construction, said Phil Leazer, the York County official overseeing the Pennies program.