Bøger af Betsy Franco

Looking for a 1 to 2 minute monologue for an audition, a class, or a presentation? This book is for you! Playwright/author/actor Betsy Franco wrote 21 monologues, and they were filmed by her son James Franco for an art installation. Betsy was inspired to write the monologues after holding auditions for her play Metamorphosis, Junior Year. She culled from her plays, screenplays, and novels (both published and in development) and used her experience as an actor to compile the collection. Betsy worked closely with teens from the Palo Alto Teen Arts Council to ensure the book would contain useful, relevant and compelling material.

The poems in this personal poetry collection, written by the author of the popular Poem of the Week series, have taken into account themes and topics for second graders: poems about "me" and life at school; social studies poems about families, maps, and famous Americans; math poems about sharks teeth and fractions of a pie; science poems about food chains, clouds, and liquids; silly poems; special poems written in particular genres, and much more. They're full of unusual words and fun new vocabulary. Each poem has a student poem page with an engaging illustration. This enables children to create their own personal poetry collections. For group and center work, we've provided strips that fit into a Desktop Pocket Chart.

Share the rhythm and cadence of poetry and the joy of poetic language with the children in your class. The topics of the 42 poems were selected to reflect a child's world. This book provides a delightful poem for every week of the year while at the same time introducing, teaching, or reviewing all 26 letters of the alphabet. The poems are relevant, lively, touching and fun. Suggestions are given to highlight the particular initial consonant or vowel for each poem, as well as ideas for making the poems personal and interactive. Each poem is provided in two ways: a student copy of the poem which makes a great home connection and easy-to-create poetry strips which will fit into a Desktop Pocket Chart, perfect for individual or small group work.

The poems in this personal poetry collection have taken into account themes and topics for first graders: poems about "me;" school, community, and our country; animal poems; math poems; science poems about life cycles and much more! The poems in the collection are from four to fifteen lines long. Those within the beginning themes are simpler, including many high frequency words that children can use as anchors and a great deal of repetition to make the poems more predictable. Reading a poem in many forms makes it fun for first graders to practice and develop their reading skills. For individual, group, and whole class work, we've provided the tools you need. Each poem has a student poem page with an engaging illustration. This enables children to create their own personal poetry collections. For group and center work, we've provided strips that fit into the Desktop Pocket Chart. We've also included instructions for enlarging the poems for use as poetry posters.

Hear the rhythm and cadence of poetry and the joy of poetic language with the children in your class. The topics of the 44 poems reflect a child's world. This book provides a delightful poem for every week of the year, including poems for the seasons. The poems are relevant, lively, touching and thematically appropriate. Suggestions are given to bring out the specific phonemic focus for each poem, as well as ideas for making the poems personal and interactive. Each poem is provided in two ways: a student copy of the poem which makes a great home connection and easy-to-create poetry strips which will fit into a Desktop Pocket Chart.

Poetry is such a perfect way to introduce kindergartners to the early stages of literacy. It's brief. It's fun. It's got rhythm! The poems in this personal poetry collection have been carefully crafted to meet the specific needs of kindergartners. Themes and topics used by most kindergarten teachers are the focus of the collection. There are poems about friendship and family, the seasons, the first and last day of school, animals, and much, much more. Most of the poems are from four to six lines long, making tracking easier for the emergent reader. The longer poems have very few words per line or include lots of repetition. In addition, an "anchor word" begins nearly every title and poem. Having a high frequency word as the first word of the title and the poem gives kinders a sense of confidence. Once they've read a word that is an old friend, off they go!

Grades 3-5 42 poems are included to illustrate the rhythm and cadence of poetry and to share the joy of poetic language with your students. Share with your students a poem a week to raise the awareness of spelling and advanced phonics rules, including curriculum-related poems for creative writing, social studies and science. These poems focus on spelling patterns that your students will find in long and short vowels; the sounds of aw, or, ur, ir; unaccented vowels; silent letters; soft c and g; double consonants; prefixes and suffixes; the endings of -er, -est, -ed, -ing, -el, -le, er, -or, -est; unusual plurals; possessives; contractions; compound words; and more! Along with the poems and suggestions, we've provided strips for each poem that fit into a desktop pocket chart.

A poem a week to raise the awareness of phonograms and advanced phonics rules, including curriculum-related poems for creative writing, math and science. 40 poems are included to share the rhythm and cadence of poetry and to share the joy of poetic language with your students. These poems focus on phonograms with long vowel sounds, the sounds of u, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and other vowel variants; also presented are consonant digraphs, blends, and more! The suggestions that accompany each poem ensure that you can enjoy the poetry with your students, while at the same time introducing, teaching, or reviewing relevant phonic elements. The suggestions will also help you to integrate the poems into the curriculum. Along with the poems and suggestions, we've provided strips for each poem that fit into the Desktop Pocket Chart. A collection of 20 Mini-Books is available in a reproducible take-home, mini-book format, also accompanied by teaching suggestions.

The perfect compliment to Poem of the Week, Book 1. Your students can now have more opportunity to practice their reading using Betsy Franco's whimsical poetry and share their reading with parents and friends. Each book reproduces, folds and staples easily and is perfect for homework and partner reading. Children can color them, and integrate art with poetry. (Grades K-2)

A wonderful collection of forty-two poems that reflect the world of third to fifth graders. There's one poem for each week of school, including curriculum-related poems for math, science, and social studies. Many of the poems are excellent springboards for discussing values with your students. There's an extra bonus, too! Since grammar plays an important part in students' writing, each poem highlights a particular grammatical rule. The suggestions that accompany each poem ensure that you can enjoy the poetry with your students, while at the same time introducing, teaching, or reviewing relevant grammar skills. The suggestions will also help you integrate the poems into the curriculum. Along with the student poems and suggestions, you get mini-strips for each poem that fit into the Desktop Pocket Chart. With all these tools, individual students can learn from and elaborate on the poems, groups can benefit from the oral language, and you can relax and enjoy your teaching.

Award-winning author Betsy Franco is back with another performance that explores a range of math topics--from fractions and time measurements to geometry and graphs--in a way that relates math to the daily lives of children.

Grab a partner (or many more) and read these playful poems for multiple voices aloud — evoking all the high spirits and hijinks of a day at school.Out on the playground, kids are skipping rope and making trades. In the library, they're whispering, fi dgeting, and giggling. In the classroom, they're learning their lessons....or spinning tales about why they haven't turned in their homework. Throughout this collection of nineteen poems — ideal for reading aloud in pairs, but just as much fun with one or many — words, pictures, and voices erupt in an irresistible invitation to join an exhilarating ride around school. So hop on the bus! The pencils are tapping, the clock is ticking, and reports are due...tomorrow?

So much can happen in three years in a teen''s life. Help them record it all with this daily journal.The perfect gift for a teen, Q&A a Day for Me is a one-sentence diary that prompts any teen to record best friends, worst haircuts, favorite outfits, and embarrassing moments. Filled with 365 questions, one on each page for every day of the year, a teen has the space to write down a short response every year for three years. It’s easy to get started—just turn to today’s date and take a minute to answer the question at the top of the page. As the years pass, he or she will have a keepsake time capsule that shows how much his or her answers change (and which ones remain the same)!