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Join Hands: The Ways We Celebrate Life incorporates language, photography, and poetry in a book about building communities. Bring your students together with the reader's theater, writing assignments, games, reading practice, and vocabulary exercises in this printable discussion and activity guide for the book.

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Join Hands
Join Hands
By Pat Mora and George Ancona

From singing canciones to planning a hoopla day, Join Hands! joyfully celebrates the many ways that children build communities with friends of all ages. Award-winning author Pat Mora weaves the repeating lines of a pantoum, a Malaysian poetic form with a specific pattern of repetition, while George Ancona's lively photos capture the ways that kids have fun with others. Join Hands! is not only a wonderful way to celebrate diversity and play, but also a great tool to teach poetry that relates to kids' lives.

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