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Teachers, Moms and Dads inspire your kids to read and write!

Kids get the biggest “kick” out of reading what other kids write. Sometimes it peaks their interests to learn. Our Voice2Youth Anthology is both entertaining and educational. Young writers featured within it provide many examples of literary techniques such as alliteration, simile, onomatopoeia, metaphor and much more.

What is an anthology?

An anthology is a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing. That’s what an anthology is, but what is it truly made out of? This anthology was created by the imaginative minds of kids who “give life to words” through their wonders, fears, struggles, thoughts and emotions. CLICK HERE TO READ THEIR POETRY

– Also Available – Giving Voice to Youth Anthology features Youth Published with Dr. Maya Angelou

In this wonderful anthology you’ll find magical poems written by children and teens. Discover ways to help students learn to express themselves with the inspiration of Dr. Maya Angelou’s writings. You’ll also enjoy fun Teaching Tips to help students grasp concepts like simile and metaphor.

Contact us today at info@tydfoundation.org to order copies for your library, classroom, home-school, or budding poet/author. Copies are only $10 each plus shipping. Remember, your purchase will help us light up the lives of hundreds of children in need.

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* Alliteration: a literary or rhetorical stylistic device that consists in repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in close succession. An example is the Mother Goose tongue-twister, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers …".

* Clerihew: n. A humorous verse, usually consisting of two unmatched rhyming couplets, about a person whose name generally serves as one of the rhymes. After Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), British writer.

* Onomatopoeia: a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar".

* Free verse: n.Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.

* Cinquain: n. A five-line stanza.

* Simile: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word "like" or "as".

* Metaphor: a figure of speech concisely comparing two things, saying that one is the other.

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