The Poetry Foundation has announced the new Children's Poet Laureate -- Mary Ann Hoberman. She is the second person to hold this esteemed position. The first was poetry great Jack Prelutsky.
Poetry is one of the wonderful ways to encourage children to have fun with language. Nursery rhymes and songs are early poetry, that introduce youngsters to an early literacy skill -- phonological awareness. Playing with rhymes, words, and phrases increases a child's ability to learn how to read, by understanding that words are made up of sounds. Older children develop their sentence building skills. Children of all ages increase their creativity and imagination.
Stop by the Children's Room and check out the J 811s for books of poetry.
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