Teaching phonics is a delight with this big collection of irresistible poetry! Each kid-pleasing poem helps kids master key decoding skills and targets a key letter-sound relationship--consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Includes instant lessons and activities to build phonemic awareness, oral literacy, and all the phonics concepts students need to know to help ensure reading success. Great for shared reading! For use with Grades K-3.
Pop these poems in a pocket chart and build important reading skills! Children develop decoding strategies as they solve fun guess-me poems that target key sound-letter relationships—initial consonants, long- and short vowels, and more. Comes complete with step-by-step lessons, pocket-chart poems, reproducible picture cards, and follow-up activities. For use with Grades PreK-2.
Plum Gum and Other Chunk Poems is an entertaining book of poetry written by a teacher for the purpose of building fluency in young readers. •Kids love to read the poems because they are funny and written for a child’s sense of humor. •Teachers love the poems because each one is written to emphasize a specific phonics chunk. •Parents love the poems because their children become better readers. Plum Gum and Other Chunk Poems is a must have book for every school library, every reading teacher, every parent who wants to help their child gain reading success, and every child who is discovering the joys of reading. The clever illustrations add to the enjoyment and make it the perfect book for young readers. “Adele Tolley Wilson has captured the sounds and images of language in a playful and entertaining new poetry collection--I have witnessed requests from whole classes of young children to read Plum Gum poems again and again . . .” D. Ray Reutzel, Emma Eccles Jones Professor of Early Childhood Education
Here are dozens and dozens of literacy-building pocket chart poems and lessons to teach and reinforce the alphabet and the numbers 1 to 30, and to build phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding skills. Simply copy the rhyming poems onto sentence strips and reproduce the picture cards for lively, interactive activities that are perfect for shared reading, circle time, or any time! For use with Grades PreK-1.
Children's writer and poet Amy Ludwig VanDerwater leads us on an adventure through poetry, pointing out craft elements along the way that students can use to improve all their writing, from idea finding to language play. "Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small," Amy explains. "And, too, poems teach us how to write. Anything." This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher. Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet and two by students in grades 2 through 8, which serve as models to illustrate how poetry teaches writers to: find ideas, choose perspective and point of view, structure texts, play with language, craft beginnings and endings, choose titles. Students will learn how to replicate the craft techniques found in poetry to strengthen all writing, from fiction to opinion, from personal narrative to information. "Poets arrange words and phrases just as prose writers do, simply in tighter spaces," Amy argues. "In the tight space of poetry, readers can identify writing techniques after reading one page, not thirty pages."
Use the magic of poetry to build essential reading skills! Students will love these engaging reproducible poems with companion activity sheets that improve reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and more.
