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Taking the Road Less Traveled: Teaching Reading Through Poetry and Music

Get rockin’ and have a rhymin’ good time experiencing strategies for creating readers and writers through poetry and song. Find out best practices and pick-up standards-based lessons and resources you can use everyday! Accompanying themselves on ukulele, guitars and banjo, their energetic, interactive, hands-on concerts and workshops include performance poetry, storytelling, music, raps, folktales and their favorite poets: Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, Langston Hughes, Eloise Greenfield, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Nikki Giovanni and Lewis Carroll.

Dr. Nile Stanley, affectionately known as “Nile Crocodile, the Reading Reptile,” is a reading specialist, performance poet, storyteller, musician, researcher, and award-winning professor of education at the University of North Florida. Nile is the past editor of the Florida Reading Journal and the author of two books: Creating Readers with Poetry and Performance Literacy through Storytelling. Nile is a big believer and practitioner in arts-based literacy instruction (poetry, performance, storytelling, music, and multimedia). Nile also presents at international, national, regional and local conferences and performs interactive workshops and concerts at schools and libraries.

 
Gary Dulabaum is an author (My Teacher Rides a Harley), educator, poet, songwriter and recording artist of children’s music (6 recordings of his original music). As an educational consultant, author and performing artist, Gary has visited several thousand schools across the nation and beyond and has keynoted, presented and entertained at many local, state, regional and national conferences. Gary, who has been called a teacher's teacher, understands first-hand the power of music and the performing arts as teaching tools in the everyday classroom. He also was a guest lecturer in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney for 12 years teaching a series of classes for pre-service and practicing teachers using music and the arts to enhance literacy development.

 
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Click here to see Nile & Gary's Summer Reading Calendar

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http://www.youtube.com/user/NileCrocodilePoet?feature=mhum#

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February 23 - 25, 2012  - Nebraska State Reading Conference, Kearney, Nebraska 

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