1. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices Paul Fleischman 1988 A Charlotte Zolotow Book

2. Note The following poems are written to be read aloud by two readers at once, one taking the left- hand part, the other taking the right-hand part. The poems should be read from top to bottom, the two parts meshing as in a musical duet. When both readers have lines at the same horizontal level, those lines are to be spoken simultaneously.

3. Grasshoppers Sap’s rising Ground’s warming Grasshoppers are hatching out Autumn-laid eggs splitting Young stepping into spring

4. Grasshoppers hopping high Grasshoppers jumping far

5. Vaulting from leaf to leaf stem to stemleaf to leaf plant to plantstem to stem Grass- leapersLeapers Grass- bounders

6. Grass- springers Grass- soarers Leapfrogging longjumping grasshoppers

7. Grasshoppers