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If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners.Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence -- important building blocks for future readers. The 700 selections will help children ages 3 to 6 build a strong foundation in skills such as listening, imagination, coordination, and spatial and body awareness. In this giant book of rhythm and rhyme, you are sure to find your own childhood favorites! Book jacket.

Join Ditty Bird on a musical adventure and listen to your much-loved nursery rhymes.Press the sound button on each page to listen to popular nursery rhymes sung by children, for children.Includes six nursery rhymes:"Itsy Bitsy Spider","Twinkle twinkle little star","Baa Baa Black Sheep""Old MacDonald had a farm","Row Row Row your boat",and "Hickory Dickory Dock".

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Rhyming is one of the best ways to teach young students about language. Students will learn why rhyming is a core language skill, and how it also makes words and ideas easy to remember. This book features fun examples of rhymes, from silly sentences to popular nursery rhymes. Students will also be introduced to the concept of rhythm, and will see how this essential language concept goes hand-in-hand with rhyming. Readers are encouraged to put it all together with quiz questions on every spread. This volume features informative graphic organizers, a glossary, index, and websites for additional learning.