Book Detail
All the Colors of the Race |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Adoff, Arnold | Illustrator: Steptoe, J. | ||||||||
| Title: All the Colors of the Race | Date: 1982 | ||||||||
| Publisher: Morrow | City: New York | ||||||||
| ISBN, paperback: | ISBN, hardback: 0-688-11496-2 | ||||||||
Recommended audience: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: | ||||||||
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: | ||||||||
| Picture: Yes | |||||||||
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): poetry, easy reading | |||||||||
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Summary: |
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| A collection of poems celebrating the family and minority heritages. The poems are spoken in the voice of a girl, the child of an African-American mother and Jewish father. | |||||||||
Teaching Ideas: |
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| Volunteers (students) may want to read these poems aloud. The vocabulary is simple, and the poems are appropriate for low-level readers. Teachers might want to pick and choose which poems are best for use. The theme of skin tone might elicit interesting reflection, discussion, and writing. | |||||||||
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 Force Field Analysishttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/force_field_analysis.pdf |
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