Chant to Make a Horse Swim

You can listen to 3rd grader Chandler read her poem “Chant to Make a Horse Swim.”

Click here to read the text of the poem.
[photo by tibchris via flickr]

By WITS Houston, on November 20, 2008 at 4:00 am, under animal, poetry, spoken word, student, writers in the schools. Tags: chant poem, horse poem. 2 Comments

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Tumblewords On November 20, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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Nice work! A lovely chant and a superb reading!
Linda Jacobs On November 22, 2008 at 7:22 am
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She reads better than my high school kids!
Great poem!

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