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This section includes:
For starters, please feel free to download or copy whatever material you can use from my site. What you'll find here are student writing prompts, recommended lists of poetry for grades K-12 (one for elementary schools, and a second list of YA titles), and ideas for presenting poetry to your students. The list will change from time to time as I come across new and exciting titles to add, or when existing titles go out of print.
If you're planning a conference for which I'll be a featured speaker, please download these lists and idea sheets for your conferees.
That's it. I hope you find something you can use! |
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Persons of Color Literary Panel for Young Readers Resource List |
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| In response to many requests from conference and event organizers, as well as public and private schools, for a list of authors and illustrators who are Persons of Color, we have pulled together this list which is incomplete, but it’s a start. We respect your efforts to diversify your roster of speakers. |
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| If you are a trade-published author or illustrator who is a Person of Color, and you would like to be added to this list, please send us an e-mail. Names will be added every quarter. |
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| Click on the image at right to bring up a Google Sheet with names, category of books, state, and contact information. You can sort the columns, perform a search, or print this list. |
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Resources |
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"Nikki Grimes' Wild Ride," Raven Howell in Bookbug, Story Monsters Ink, February 2023 |
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"Celebrating Poetry Month: Nikki Grimes," Avalon Felice Lee, Diverse Verse, 28 April 2022 |
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Banned Books Resource List from Nikki Grimes |
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"What Makes a Book 'Appropriate' for School?" Nikki Grimes, Publishers Weekly, 27 Aug 2021 |
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Nikki Grimes' Word Economy Exercise Template |
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Popular Poetry Teaching Tools |
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#HFGather: A Poetry Chat with Nikki Grimes and Sarah Aronson (2020) |
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“50 Black Young Adult Novelists You Should Read, from Angie Thomas to Walter Dean Myers,” Mary Cadden, USA Today, 17 Feb 2021 |
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Brief List of K-6 Poetry Titles, recommended by Nikki Grimes |
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Brief List of Young Adult Poetry Titles, recommended by NikkiGrimes |
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“Begin a Poem with a Picture: Poet Nikki Grimes shows how you can write a picture poem,” Instructor, Jan/Feb 1995 (PDFfile, 547kb) |
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“Have a Heart,” Creative Classroom, Jan/Feb 1999 (PDFfile, 1,413 kb) |
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“Sideyard,” originally published in From a Child's Heart by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Brenda Joysmith, © 1993 by Nikki Grimes (PDFfile, 843 kb)
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Educators' Guides |
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Click on any of the titles below. Many of the guides and activities can be printed directly from the website. |
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