This PowerPoint was the program for the 2017 NCTE Annual Conference in St. Louis. The Committee for the Children's Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry presented the program. The books in the PowerPoint were the finalists for the 2017 Award from the 2016 copyright year. The Award was established for children ages 3-13. Committee members were: Karen Hildebrand, Chair, Trish Bandre, Lesley Colabucci, Laretta Henderson, Lisa Muller, Lisa Patrick. More information about the award can be found at: http://www2.ncte.org/awards/excellence-in-poetry-for-children-living-american-poet/
2. Poetry Committee
Members:
• Trish Bandre
• Lesley Colabucci
• Laretta Henderson
• Lisa Muller
• Lisa Patrick
• Karen Hildebrand, Chair
3. • Books must have been published or distributed in the English language
during the calendar year.
• Bilingual books are also accepted.
• Nominations of individual books may come from publishers, the
membership of NCTE, and from the educational community at large.
• Any poetry title for children ages 3-13 is accepted. This includes all forms
of poetry including individual poetry, anthologies, narratives, biographical
poems, and verse novels.
Eligibility:
4. Individual Poems demonstrate*
•Content that is interesting to and understandable by intended readers.
•Language is innovative, with careful word choices and uses of poetic
•devices to enhance meaning.
•Form or structure helps readers understand more about the poetic subject or mood.
Collections and Anthologies demonstrate*
•Purposeful selection of quality poetry.
•Arrangement that is logical.
•Inclusiveness of a range of poetry.
•In addition, if an old collection or anthology has been recently published or reissued,
it must have a new perspective, fresh approach, and/or newly illustrated to be
considered as a new collection.
Picture books/stories in rhyme
•The poetry in picture books must incorporate poetic language that exemplifies
figurative language, that demonstrating depth rather than simply rhymed couplets.
Poetry Notable Books Criteria:
5. •A narrative told in poetic form.
•Excellence in writing and emotional impact: does the poetry
•“create images, express feelings, and stir emotions”*
•Format enriches the story in some way.
*Some criteria excerpted from: Galda, L., Cullinan, B.E., & Sipe, L.R.
(2010). Literature and the Child. Seventh Edition. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage Learning
Deadline: Nominations must be submitted to the Award Committee
by November 1. One copy of each book nominated should be sent to the
committee members for examination. Advanced copies or galley proofs are
acceptable.
Poetry Notable Verse Novel Criteria:
12. In our writing journal this week
we are supposed to ask,
What if?
It can be something silly, like
What if
I could stay home and play all day?
Or something serious, like
What if
I didn’t even have a home
Most kids are choosing a fun subject
and funny answers,
but I feel like taking a chance
and asking a hard question
even if I might not like my answer,
even if I might not have any answer at all.
JUST IMAGINE
JENNA
IN OUR
WRITING
JOURNAL
PAGES 10-14
13. Fake News: A Poem with Alliteration
Write a poem that uses
several words that begin
with the same letter and
sound for a special effect.
That’s called “alliteration.”
14.
15. Golden Shovel Poetry
Here are the rules for the Golden Shovel:
1. Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire.
2. Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem.
3. Keep the end words in order.
4. Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines).
The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem
that offers the end words.
If you pull a line with six words, your poem would be six lines long.
If you pull a stanza with 24 words, your poem would be 24 lines long.
And so on.
18. P. 175 - Set the Setting
“Where am I?
~ One way to begin a piece of writing is to place
your readers in a place – right at the start”
By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Heinemann. 2017
Combine with …
P. 101 – Build Two Sides to Compare and
Contrast
~ Organize the text by building two sides is
another way to show two things are alike or
different.
19. Soccer Sides
by
Matt Forrest Esenwine
Offense means head down the field –
Dribble,
pass,
try to score!
Goalie blocked your shot?
No sweat!
Follow up and shoot some more!
Defense means hang out in back.
Better keep a watchful eye!
Their offense wants the winning goal –
Ha! –
I’d like to see them try …
23. Stars and Dandelions
Deep in the blue sky
like pebbles at the bottom of the sea
Lle the stars unseen in daylight
until night comes
You can’t see them, but they are there
Unseen things are still there.
The withered, seedless dandelions
hidden in the cracks of the roof tile
wait, silently for spring
their strong roots unseen.
You can’t see them, but they are there.
Unseen things are still there.
24. The Cicada’s Clothes
Mommy,
in the shade of the tree in the backyard
I found the cicada’s clothes.
She must have gotten hot
and taken them off.
and then forgot
and flew away.
When night comes
it’ll get cold, Mommy
Where do you think we should deliver
Her clothes?
75. Chinstrap Penguin First Family Portrait
Now that the shell
Has been shed.
Mother and Father
Marvel over each turf
Of fluff.
Together they guard
Against weather and foe –
Shoulders cloaked,
Bellies disguised as ice,
Caps strapped on tight.
Baby comes bundled
In a soft, gray cloud
With oar-shaped wings,
That flap without sound
Tiny beak a miracle
Peeping
More, more, more.
These are just a scant few of the many books Marilyn has written or been a part of but time prevents me from detailing them all. Please come to her session tomorrow to hear more of her wonderful words.
To conclude …
I would like to borrow from an article that appeared in the journal Image
Written by Jeanne Murray Walker.
“American history as conceived by Marilyn Nelson is the inside-out, last-shall-be-first version. She inhabits the voices of the overlooked and disenfranchised and shines light into forgotten corners that reveal essential truths about the whole …
But if she is a revisionist historian’s poet, she is also a child’s poet, a mother’s poet, a housekeeper’s poet, and scientist’s poet. Her poem “Dusting” is a lament for an “infernal, endless chore,” but also a psalm of thanks for the gift of dust, the spores and fungus that float from equator to pole, and which, because they precipitate rain, are crucial to all life on our planet. It’s this breadth of perspective, from pole to pole, past to present, from spheres domestic to atmospheric, that make her so remarkable.”
Please welcome the 2017 NCTE Award for Excellence in Children’s Poetry recipient, Marilyn Nelson.