Poetry with a Point: Poems & Activities That Teach Language-Arts Skills

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Poetry with a Point: Poems & Activities That Teach Language-Arts Skills

Honey J. Backman & Tammy Korn Edelman

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Enliven any language-arts curriculum with these fun and fanciful poems, delightful illustrations, and easy-to-implement activities. Covering everything from adjectives, adverbs, and alliteration to synonyms, verbs, and vowels, this teacher-tested resource includes lesson plans and plenty of reproducible practice sheets. And it even comes with a CD showing each illustrated poem in full color--perfect for projecting in the classroom!

Sample Pages:
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Customer Reviews:

Finally!!!

Reviewer: Angela Young

It is obvious that this book was written by experienced teachers. Not only have they considered what language skills are difficult for elementary students to understand, but they have also considered the limited time we as teachers have to cover such skills. Backman and Edelman make it "a point" to engage students with silly, but purposeful poems that will not only have kids smiling, but reading with better oral fluency, and understanding parts of speech. As a former primary teacher, I wish that this resource would have been around for my second graders to enjoy. As an intermediate teacher, I highly recommend this book to my own team as well as to teachers in the primary grades. Finally we have something to make our job as teachers of language and literacy a bit easier.

Reviewer: Cathy Marwood

I bought this book a few years ago and have used it continuously. The students love the poems and have fun learning. It is both effective and easy to use.