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Academy of American Poets - features over 1,250 poems and information on over 450 poets!
Great video about poetry slams and how they work!
Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
Poetry 18 - allows students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year
Poetry teachers - how to teach poetry, poetry theater, poetry activities, and more!
Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky
Shel Silverstein YouTube Channel
The Favorite Poem Project - includes a collection of 50 short videos of Americans reading and speaking about poems they love
The Poetry Archive - a range of resources for students
Writers Digest - 20 best poems for children

10 reasons why parents should read multicultural books to their children
A Database of award winning multicultural children's books -
A journal examining multicultural picture books for the early childhood classroom
A video interview with Gladys Barbieri, where she discusses the positive impact of reading multicultural books to children
A video of :RIF (Reading Is Fundamental): Dr. Violet Harris discusses the launch of multicultural books and the importance of multicultural literature.
Cooperative Children's Book Center: 50 multicultural books every child should know
Oyate: resource materials, evaluation of texts, and fiction by and about Native peoples
This website contains annotated bibliographies for multicultural books for grades K-6
USBBY - Annual lists of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults.
World of Words - over 25,000 volumes of children's literature that focuses on world cultures and indigenous people

A video on how to choose books and read aloud to children
A video on ideas for doing an interactive read aloud
Jim Trelease - many resources for reading aloud at home and in the classroom!
Literacy Connections - this site provides many links to a variety of websites with resources on reading aloud
Mem Fox's website - listen to her read alouds and learn the story behind her stories!
Reading Is Fundamental- This site is full of reading aloud resources and it provides free books to families and children in need.
Reading Rockets: Reading Aloud
Strategies for conducting read aloud in the classroom
The National Writing Project: Mentor Texts
Tim Bedley, 2013 Riverside County Teacher of the Year teaches a read a loud lesson using the book The Junkyard Wonders--Video

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