Islanders are all well versed in the meaning of “Juneuary” — used to describe an unseasonably cold summer day on Vashon. But ...

Standard 1. Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 5. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Standard 2. Students know physical and human ...

Author Dar Dowling chatted about her new bestselling poetry book “Echoes of Darku.” Her book reached No. 1 in Amazon’s ...

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...

"Picky to Pocky no Haiku Ehon: Oshogatsu no Maki," written by Kozaburo Arashiyama and illustrated by Mizumaru Anzai (Published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc., 2013) Story outline On the ...

Shorter forms of poetry like limericks and haiku are not only fun to write, but they also have a long history. When poets don’t have many words, they have to think carefully about their choice ...