100 Fill-in-the-Blank practice pages that help kids really learn the top high-frequency words. Children will develop word recognition skills, build automaticity, and improve reading fluency with these ready-to-go pages. Each page gives kids repeated opportuniities to spell, write, and read a sight word - while completing a fun poem! Poems feature predictabl, rhyming text and tie in with popular themes such as weather, seasons, all about me, and more.
Sailing Alone Around the Room - New and Selected Poems
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite.
Step into this big collection of kid-pleasing classroom poems and discover connections to hundreds of topics! You'll find poems about the alphabet, word families, math skills and concepts, science themes, friendship, holidays and special times, neighborhood and community, character education, and more. The poems will entertain and inspire students while offering endless opportunities to expand their experience with language, foster a love of words, and build reading fluency and confidence. The Big Book of Classroom Poems includes ideas and activities for using the poems in the classroom.
The editor of this book, and the ideal teacher to whom he hopes to be useful, need not agree on everything, but they will share two assumptions: (I) that such general notions as the student is going to acquire about poetry he should acquire from actual experience with poems, not from a pedagogical system; and consequently (2) that the poems he has experience with, even at the beginning, should be worth encountering for their own sake.
Children's World is a colourful monthly Indian children's magazine. There are stories, poems and activities, such as Connect the Dot, Word Hunt and many others.
