Scroll down or click on the links below for some terrific ideas for using FOLD ME A POEM and origami in your classroom or library.

See "Folding and Poeming" in the free Downloadable Teacher's Guide to learn how students can fold a simple dog, then write three different kinds of poems for a fast and easy poetry lesson!  

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Web links to origami sites and folding diagrams.
Visit Lauren Stringer, illustrator of FOLD ME A POEM, and see her terrific instructions and diagrams for folding some of the critters from our book.
 

 

 

WEB LINKS TO ORIGAMI SITES

Links to folding diagrams on the web
     http://www.paperfolding.com/diagrams/

Origami projects for teachers
     Math in Motion: Origami in the Classroom 
         by Barbara Elizabeth Pearl (check out her easy-to-fold whale)
     Origami with Rachel Katz (check out "Storigami")
     Oriland
    Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
     Teach-nology Origami Links

Learn more about origami and see some amazing art

     Eric's Origami Page
     Joseph Wu
     British Origami Society
     Origami Artist Robert Lang
     A Brief Outline of Origami Design History by David Mitchell
 
 

 
 
E-Mail!I've got the mail! (From Little Dog Poems. Copyright 1999 June Otani.)
 
 

 


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