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UMT for Kids flashcards Sight Words (Ages 4-6) flashcards
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condensed langue, expression of imaginative thoughts and perceptions, contain rhythm and devices of sound, imagery, figurative language and some rhyme

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poetry and verse

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traditional stories, myths, legends, nursery rhymes, and songs form the past.
Oral tradition; no known author

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folklore

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set in places that don’t exist, about people and creatures or events that are not possible

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fantasy

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based on extending physical laws and scientific principles to their logical outcomes, futuristic

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science fiction

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could happen in the real world, characters seem real, contemporary setting

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Contemporary realistic fiction

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stories reconstructing life in the past, using realistic, actual or fictional characters, events and historical setting

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historical fiction

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account of a person’s life or part of a life history by someone else or the person himself

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biography/memoir

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informational books that explain a subject or concept using facts about the real world

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nonfiction

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a format in which art and text are interdependent

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picturebooks

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Jerry Pinkney, Virginia Hamilton, James Rumford

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Folklore

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Kathi Appelt, Matt phelan

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Fantasy

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Catherine Fisher

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Science Fiction

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Patricia Reilly Giff, Sara Penny packer, Frances O’Roark Dowell

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Contemporary Realistic Fiction

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Jacqueline Kelly, Louise Erdrich, gary Schmidt

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Historical Fiction

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Laban Carrick Hill, Steve Sheinkin, Tanya Lee Stone

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Biography and Memoir

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Marc Aronson, Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop, Jan Greenber, Sandra Jordan, Brian Floca

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Nonfiction

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Langston Hughes, Ashley bryan, brian Pinkney, Floyd Cooper

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African American men

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Patricia McKissack, Nikki Giovanni, Mildred Taylor

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African American women

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Joseph Bruchac, Shonto Begay, Cynthia Leitich Smith

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Native American

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Pura Belpre, Carmen Deedy. Gary Soto

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Hispanic American

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Linda Sue Park, Allen Say, Lisa Yee

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Asian American

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the most distinguished contribution to literature for children published in the US in the preceding year.
Given annually

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John Newbery Medal

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given to the illustrator of the most distinguished picturebook for children published in the US in the preceding year.
given annually

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Randolph Caldecott Medal

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recognize an outstanding African American Author and Illustrator whose work commemorates and fosters the life, work, and dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to continue to work for peach and world brotherhood
given annually

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Coretta Scott King Award

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honors a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator for whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience
given annually

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Pura Belpre award

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honors the author of an outstanding nonfiction book

given annually

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Orbis Pictus Award

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given to a living American poet in recognition of an outstanding body of poetry for children
presented every 3 years

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NCTE award for excellence in poetry for children

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Nebraska Children’s choice award

announced each April

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Golden Sower

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importance of acquainting children with a variety of genres

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opportunity to discover new experiences and ideas is enticing to readers, leading to the engagement and motivation that it takes to become a successful and lifelong reader
expand their horizons and imagination

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importance of poetry in programs for children

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help them to know and love poetry, draws readers into listening, increases language resources, developing phonemic awareness, make sense of print, learn how to write, learn to think by showing them how to look at their world in a new way,

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ways to help children enjoy poetry

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enthusiastic teachers, poems read aloud with enthusiasm and then talking about it, immerse students in poetry-lots of poetry over lots of time, encourage students to read poetry independently, explore poetry freely,

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Sources of good reviews of chapter books

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Horn Book,
School Library Journal
Best Books for Children, Preschool through grade 6
Booklist

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Linda Sue Park

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  1. daughter of Korean immigrants
  2. rights in historical fiction, poetry, picturebooks, and middle-grade fiction
  3. first published a haiku at age 9 in a children’s magazine.
  4. wrote seesaw girl in 1997, first book
  5. won the Newbery medal in 2002 for A Single Shard
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Carmen Agra Deedy

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  1. began writing as a young mother and storyteller in 1995
  2. grew up hearing stories from Cuban storytellers
  3. writes fantasy and Cuban folklore books
  4. uses animals as her characters
  5. ideas come from life and cultural experiences, historical events
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Mary Had a little lamb

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Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go

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Hey Diddle Diddle

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Hey Diddle Diddle
the cat and the fiddle
the cow jumped over the moon
the little dog laughed to see such sport
and the dish ran away with the spoon
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jack and jill

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jack and jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water
jack fell down and broke his crown
and jill came tumbling after

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jack sprat

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jack sprat 
could eat no fat
his wife could eat no lean
and so 
between them both
they licked the platter clean
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little jack Horner

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little jack horner
sat in the corner
eating of Christmas pie:
he put in his thumb 
and pulled out a plum,
and said, "what a good boy am I!"
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Little boy blue

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Little Boy Blue, come, blow your horn!
The sheep’s in the meadow, the cows in the corn.
Where’s the little boy that looks after the sheep?
Under the haystack, fast asleep.

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Humpty Dumpty

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humpty dumpty sat on a wall
humpty dumpty had a great fall
all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men
couldn’t put humpty together again

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peter, peter pumpkin eater

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peter, peter, pumpkin-eater
had a wife and couldn’t keep her;
he put her in a pumpkin shell
and there he kept her very well

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Book read

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Night of the Twisters
Ivy Ruckman in 1984
for ages I-A
Summary: based on the series of tornadoes that devastated the Grand Island area in June of 1980. Dan and his best friend Arthur are at home with baby, Ryan when the sirens howl. The boys retreat to the basement. They survive and search for their families. the town is almost completely flattened.

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