Celebrating World Read Aloud Day and the One Year Anniversary of the Release of GONE FISHING
Tamera WIll WissingerOne year ago today, on March 5, 2013, my debut book, GONE FISHING: A Novel In Verse, illustrated by Matthew Cordell, was released. I've had such a fun year of connecting with enthusiastic readers, writers, and book lovers throughout the world. I feel so honored to be part of the children's writing community. And it is also my honor to participate in World Read Aloud Day 2014, hosted by LitWorld, an organization dedicated to the idea that everybody deserves the chance to read and write. Here is a link to Read Write Think, a reading and writing resource whose partners are the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and Thinkfinity. They're celebrating World Read Aloud Day and providing many resources and activities on their website. (As of this posting, the World Read Aloud site wasn't active - if that changes, I'll add it back in.)
To celebrate these two events, I decided to video tape myself reading a poem from GONE FISHING out loud. The poem I'm reading is called ALL ABOARD! It's a list poem from the perspective of Sam, the main character in GONE FISHING.
Here you go - I hope you enjoy.
Thanks for reading with me!
03.05.2014
Reader Comments (7)
We watched your video in my morning ELA class. Congratulations on your one year anniversary. We enjoyed reading "Gone Fishing" together and will revisit it in April for National Poetry Month.
Happy Anniversary. Enjoyed hearing you read :)!
Great to hear this poem in your voice! Thanks for sharing it and congratulations on your books first birthday!
Happy World Read Aloud Day! I enjoyed listening to your video, thanks for sharing it!
What a treat to hear you read! Happy 1 year book birthday to you, Tamera!
Happy book birthday! We'll be reading it as we try out different poetry forms!
Wonderful! Congratulations :)