Poems for Word Study


Book Description

Co-authored by fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this resource aids in teaching literacy skills through poetry with word study activities based on poems that develop phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and spelling skills.




20 Weekly Word Study Poetry Packets


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Teachers can streamline their planning and preparation with these instant word study packets. Choose one of the learning-rich, cross-curricular poems to use for shared reading throughout the week. Then teach key word families and spelling patterns with words drawn from the poem, using the ready-to-go word work pages included in this book. Builds fluency too!




Playing with Poems


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The ideas presented here are incredibly practical, easily implemented, and highly effective. -Kathy Collins Author of Growing Readers Why aren't there more good poems for use in shared reading? Poems that address key curricular goals while making the most of young children's love of rhythm and rhyme? Now, thanks to Zoe Ryder White, there are. She's stocked Playing with Poems with lessons built around 44 brand-new, original poems written precisely for word study. Only a teacher could write both poems filled with word study concepts and lessons that help children internalize them. Through a shared reading framework, White presents word study lessons that target literacy foundations such as: concepts about print rhythm and rhyme sight words spelling patterns vocabulary. Playing with Poems is a lot of fun for children, and it's packed with helpful features for you. Its lessons are carefully sequenced to lead students from beginning concepts to more complex ones. Special navigation charts help you match lessons to areas of need. And Playing with Poems even provides great ideas for writing your own shared reading poems and for collecting them from outside sources. Finally, you'll never need to worry again about tracking down poems that work for word study. Just pick up Playing with Poems. You'll get years' worth of poems perfect for shared reading. And best of all you'll have powerful lessons designed to make the most of them. Only from the pen of a teacher.




Poems for Word Study


Book Description

Co-authored by fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this resource aids in teaching literacy skills through poetry with word study activities based on poems that develop phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and spelling skills.




Phonics Poetry


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This book shows elementary teachers how and why to use phonogram poems to teach phonics. It includes many sample poems for the most common rimes in children's reading. An intro chapter shows why the onset/rime (phonogram) approach is important to teaching phonics. Chapters with original poems and other texts for the 40 or so most common rimes in children's reading are also included. Approximately 100 poems are included in this book, and there is also information on extending the use of the poems into other activities and texts. Practicing elementary teachers in grades K-3, and parents who are creating reading programs for their children at home.




Words That Sing, Kindergarten: 100 Poetry Charts for Shared Reading


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Words That Sing is an illustrated collection of poems, songs, and rhymes that will fill children with language, ideas, and imagery, which will help them use and enjoy the oral and written word. Enlarged charts make it possible for children to "read" a much more complex text than they could independently, enabling each child--regardless of reading level--to benefit from the many values and goals that poetry brings to the classroom. Words That Sing: 100 Poetry Charts for Shared Reading contains instructional suggestions and resources that will guide you in the many ways these poetry charts can be used. It includes: Values and goals of poetry Recommended tools for using poetry charts Instructional contexts for using poetry charts (e.g., shared reading, interactive read-aloud, and independent reading) Links to lessons in the Fountas & Pinnell Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System 50 ways to use poetry charts poems Planning for teaching opportunities when revisiting poetry Bonus content such as additional poem verses, poem variations, poem actions, and instructional suggestions.,/ul>




Poems are Teachers


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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."




Love That Dog


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This is an utterly original and completely beguiling prose novel about a boy who has to write a poem, and then another, and then even more. Soon the little boy is writing about all sorts of things he has not really come to terms with, and astounding things start to happen.




Sing a Song of Poetry


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Teaching resource to use poetry to expand children's oral language capabilities, develop phonological awareness, and teach about the intricacies of print. Reproducible format.




Partner Poems for Building Fluency


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The Expert Teacher of Englishis for all passionate teachers – both novice and expert - who aspire to become outstanding professionals. It considers what we mean by ‘expert’ and ‘expertise’, explores concepts that are vital to understanding what expertise in teaching is ‘for’, and discusses the characteristics of excellent teaching. As increasing attention is being paid to the concept of the professional who can model excellent teaching and mentor and develop others, it provides a critical analysis of The Advanced Skills Teacher and the Excellent Teacher, as well as the Chartered Teacher in Scotland and the ‘highly accomplished teacher’ in the US. Ideas and issues considered include: The nature of English as a school subject What it means to be part of a profession Curriculum design, lesson planning and assessment Opportunities for technologies in the English classroom Working collaboratively with colleagues, mentoring and observation Continuing professional development and research Drawing on the views, ideas and experiences of a group of skilful teachers, The Expert Teacher of Englishaims to stimulate personal and professional development, help you reflect on the concept of expertise, and support you as you develop as a highly accomplished teacher.