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Texas Reading Club Manual 291
The Center for Sports Poetry
www.internationalsport.com/cspoetry
An on-line source for sports-themed poetry written by young people.
Kids Write
www.kalwriters.com/kidswwwrite
Check out the teen sections for writing submitted by other teens. Submissions are welcome.
Professional Resources
Outside the Lines: Poetry at Play by Brad Burg.
A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems by Paul B. Janeczko.
Dover Publications
www.doverpublications.com
This publisher offers a variety of inexpensive blank books to use as incentives.
NASA Quest
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/teachers/wfomanual/langarts/poem.html
NASA provides a teaching guide and examples for concrete poetry.
NIEHS Kids Page
www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/palindromes.htm
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences provides a variety of kid-friendly
activities, riddles, and word games.
Wonder Brains
www.wonderbrains.com
This on-line store sells the Magnetic Poetry game and other games to encourage players to
think.
Length of Program
60 minutes plus optional follow-up
Program Description
Sports Images
This program will focus on sports photography, allowing teens to explore sports and activities in
their own community while expressing their interests artistically. Provide teens with disposable
cameras or ask them to bring cameras. After listening to booktalks about one or more sports
photography books or hearing a photographer talk about how to take good photographs, the
teens will take their own photographs. Teens may display their photographs in the library, on the
library’s web site, or take them home. If possible, provide them with a list of organizations that