The ideas presented here are incredibly practical, easily implemented, and highly effective.
āKathy Collins
Author of Growing Readers
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Why arenāt there more good poems for use in shared reading? Poems that address key curricular goals while making the most of young childrenās love of rhythm and rhyme? Now, thanks to ZoĆ« Ryder White, there are. Sheās stocked Playing with Poems with lessons built around 44 brand-new, original poems written precisely for word study.
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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.
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Playing with Poems is a lot of fun for children, and itās 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.
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Finally, youāll never need to worry again about tracking down poems that work for word study. Just pick up Playing with Poems. Youāll get yearsā worth of poems perfect for shared reading. And best of all youāll have powerful lessons designed to make the most of them. Only from the pen of a teacher.
This book title, Playing with Poems (Word Study Lessons for Shared Reading, K-2), ISBN: 9780325017358, by Zoe Ryder White, published by Heinemann (September 23, 2008) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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