haven't read these poems since I was in college, and I love them! I am in awe at the cleverness of Fleischman, to write for two voices, You can practically hear both voices in your head as you read them, I also listened to them on CD and that was a great thing, as well, This is some good poetry! "Book lice! / We are book lice!"
It is always a "joyful noise" when I hear my three year old son recite lines from the chapter books we read together the night before.
It's fascinating to hear what sticks in that powerful engine of a brain of his,
Paul Fleischman's book of poetry is notorious and for good reason, The "poem for two voices" has been a genre I've used over and over again in my classroom, and I'm pretty sure Fleischman is the creator of this poetic form.
I'm pleased to have finally read the original work,
The poems capture the world of the littlest creatures and range from the silly and clever to the surprisingly profound, "Book Lice" is linguistic silliness that had my son cackling, and "The House Cricket" had me laughing along with him, as well, "Honeybees," though, is the showpiece it does an amazing job of contrasting the points of view of a Queen bee with a worker, and the results are powerful, I can even show this poem to my high school students and probably will, "Chrysalis Diary," the final piece, is damn moving,
This is a book I've love to own one day, but it will be one to reread once Jude can read so we can experience the poems as they were meant to be read: parent and child reading together.
What a gem of a book, I didn't read this aloud with another person, I just read it, I actually got it to give as a gift, It's a library discard, so I wasn't the first reader,
I'm a big fan of terrestrial invertebrates, Insects as poetry subjects were very nice, The detailed and charming illustrations were very nice, I have most definitely and wonderfully been more than pleasantly surprised and totally enchanted with and by Paul Fleischmann'sandNewbery Award winning Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices so much so in fact that I now want to read Fleischman's earlierI Am Phoenix: Poems
for Two Voices as well.
And indeed, and most definitely, both my inner child and my adult self, they are equally finding Paul Fleischman's dual voiced insect based poems for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices delightfully lyrical, songlike, informative without being in any way pedantic and of course and like the book title says joyfully vibrant and noisy, very much just like two soloists waxing sweetly and poetically about various bugs and giving both children and also in my opinion adults a wonderful and never in any manner horrible and freaky introduction to fourteen socalled but in my opinion also wrongfully named creepy crawlies and with my only mild regret being that I do not have someone to read Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices aloud with me, with the intended by Paul Fleischman dual voicedness, as yes, and as Fleischman eloquently points out in his introduction, these poems need to be performed orally and that like a play is meant to be watched, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices is meant to be recited as a duet, with two very distinct individual voices.
Five for the poems Paul Fleischman presents in Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, with Eric Beddows' realistic black and white artwork providing the prefect visual accompaniment, enough to provide a nicely appreciated decorative trim for the fourteen featured poems but not in any way overwhelming Fleischman's lyricism, thus keeping the printed words, the spectacular and wonderfully "buggy" verses in the foreground of Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices and the pictures in the background to provide just sufficiently an aesthetic mirror.
And although part of me kind of does feel a bit annoyed that Paul Fleischman has not included a bibliography with books for further reading about insects in general and the fourteen species of bugs in particular, well, I have enjoyed Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices so much that I have if truth be told not even really all that much missed the non presence of a bibliography, and yes, that is definitely saying a lot coming from me as usually, as generally, a lacking or a not present bibliography really annoys me, but not really with Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, that with Paul Fleischman's oh so wonderful poems I can mostly simply forget about this.
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Paul Fleischmans poems about the extraordinary lives of various insects throughout the seasons beginning with spring are funny, smart, playful, evocative, AND informational, Bonus points: these poems are meant to be read by two voices simultaneously, so grab a friend and enjoy! If the poems are read as intended, you can literally hear the joyful cacophony of the buzzing, chirping grass field.
Eric Beddowss humorous and detailed blackandwhite pencil illustrations are equally lovely and engaging:
As a literacy Coach, I am constantly being told about and asked for resources that will address specific components of reading.
It saddens and frustrates me when awesome books like this one are overlooked while dry/mundane/BORING "fluency" programs are being passed around and sucked up like pixie sticks at a preschoolers birthday party.
These poems are soooooo cool and interesting and fun, You can not help but to sound great as a readers when performing them with a parner, One of my favorite moments this year was whengirls with limited English skills latched onto this book and begged to read it to their classmates before each class session.
Have you ever sat outside at dusk, far away from the city lights, and soaked in the sounds of nature The insect serenade is calming, a kind of joyful noise in its own right.
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices is a collection ofpoems about insects from grasshoppers and fireflies to house crickets and book lice, They are meant to be read simultaneously by "Two Voices" in verse that always compliments and frequently overlaps,
I have a daughter who loves to read poetry and we had a great time reading these together, Every time we came to a new insect, she would wrinkle her nose and say "ewww!" and then thoroughly enjoy learning about them, Her favorite, of course, was the Whirligig Beetle, which she almost couldn't read because she couldn't stop giggling about the name,
So if you can't get outside to enjoy God's insect orchestra, try Joyful Noise, and it will transport the two of you there, Picked this up in my quest to read more Newbery winners, Also, I needed a poetry book for my reading challenge,
I am not much of a poetry person, generally, but I really enjoyed this book, The poems are thoughtful and clever and I'm sure they sound awesome read aloud, There is something
wondrous
about a book that
demands to be
enjoyed with a friend, enjoyed with a friend. “Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment, ” Carl Sandburg
I strongly believe that poetry is to be read aloud and not in silence and solitude, Paul Freishmans Joyful Noise is created for this type of reading, The book is laid out so that two people can read through the poem together, there is no poem in this book that is made for one person to read silently by themselves.
On each page the stanzas have been broken up so that each reader knows when they should read and when their partner should read, and if they do not know what the poem is about they can look to the beautifully drawn image by Eric Beddows.
As I read through the book I reflected back to The Dead Poets Society and how the young men after writing their own poetry and presenting it to the entire class, had fallen in love with poetry.
This book will not only create an interest in poetry in children, but will change how they look at words and how they understand rhymes and rhythms, I would recommend this book to anyone trying to introduce children to poetry, because this book shows poetry as a special language that is made to be spoken aloud and with emotion, not as a mere words that are to be read like the ingredients to a pie.
Paul Frieshman and Eric Beddows work well together in showing that writing poetry requires the same amount of creativity if not more that it takes to draw, This book will definitely have you and your reading partner saying “O Captain! My Captain!” My son asked to read with me, he said "remember when I was first learning to read and you would read a page and then I would read a page" and I happened to pick up this book from the library! I love to select award winning books if I don't have any books requested to pick up.
We read line beside line and loved this book! what a brilliant idea, the poetry is so beautiful and several I have gone back to read again, you will never see bugs the same again! Great homeschool read for any age, my son isinth grade! POETRY CATEGORY
This is a group of poems about insects, meant to be read aloud by two readers.
I thought that sounded quite fun, and even began to imagine using this book in the classroom, Until I actually tried it out, My husband and I read some, a sixteenyearold friend read a few with me, And we were all terribly bored I had to insist we read them all, The writing is simply not even interesting, My husband called it "apathetic melodrama, " I've rarely been more happy for a book to be done,
To be fair, the illustrations are quite good, But I'm perplexed that this won the Newbery Medal in, but I'm glad I didn't know because I'm sure knowing it was award winning would have made me view the book differently.
I think it might be a case of adults liking the idea and novelty behind two voices, but honestly, the poems themselves are not well done, For example, when the two voices read at the same time, only two techniques are used: both reading the same words, which negates the value of two voices or echoing a small section verbatim, one line behind the other voice, which is such a lost opportunity for language exploration.
Perhaps someone obsessed with bugs would like this, but otherwise, I don't recommend it for anyone,
This book is soooo precious! I've never seen interactive poems like this, I read it to some children that I babysit and it was such a fun time, The illustrations are beautiful and the content of the poems are simple yet striking, Love this one, tucking it away for future use! Joyful Noise is written for two voices sometimes talking together and sometimes talking separately, The collection of poems portray the noises and characteristics of different insects such as grasshoppers, whirligig beetles, and water boatmen,
This fun collection of poems can be read in reading to help students with fluency and with reading with expression, Joyful Noise can also be implemented in a science class when learning about insects, Although the poems are not the same as informational texts, the poems can help students learn about the characteristics of different insects,
I put this as one of my WOW books because of how lively the poems are, The rhythm also sounds interesting with the two different voices, After watching a video of two people reading the poems, it was intriguing to hear how well each poem reflected the insect, I don't read a lot of poetry, When I do, I usually read poetry for children, I thought these were cleverly done and I liked the illustrations, A precious book of poetry to be enjoyed by children AND adults,
I'm seeing the insect world in a different way,
From the Newbery Medalwinning author of Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrates the insect world,
Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise,
The poems resound with the pulse of the cicada and the drone of the honeybee, They can be fully appreciated by an individual reader, but they're particularly striking when read aloud by two voices, making this an ideal pick for classroom use, Eric Beddowss vibrant drawings send each insect soaring, spinning, or creeping off the page in its own unique way,
With Joyful Noise, Paul Fleischman created not only a fascinating guide to the insect world but an exultant celebration of life, Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, The note page instructs the reader that these poems should be read out loud by two people simultaneously, One reader should take the righthand side, and the other the lefthand side, I skipped over this page, after appreciating the lovely drawing of a praying mantis reading a book, just before the cover page, It wasnt until I tried reading the first poem, “Grasshoppers”, and not being sure if I should be reading right to left, or top to bottom, did I go back and discover the directions.
Unfortunately, getting someone to read these cute poems along with me was a bit challenging, but once I did, and we found the rhythm of “The Moths Boatman”, it was fun! Sometimes our synchronous voices read the same words.
Other times our lines were asynchronous, and only one of us was reciting a line from the poem, Because our reading abilities are equal, it worked! I could get my friend to read onlypoem with me and the rest I read solo losing the musicality of these delightful poems about bugs.
This was the challenge and the drawback because reading for me, is an independent and quiet activity, They would be fun to read with a class, however, students would need time to practice reading them,
Target audienceadult. Winner of theNewberry Award, Illustrated by Eric Beddows.
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