Customer Reviews
A great base for any poetry lesson - By: Ms. V. M. Hill, 27 Jan 2007 
This book does exactly what it says, providing alll the poetry you will need for literacy & more. I use it for most of my poetry ideas as it lists alll the genres & provides good variety.
Only bought this a few weeks ago but already well loved & written on to remind me which poems to use for certain word & sentence level work as well as particular genres. I will be buying the other books in this series as i am keen to find out what else there is to offer in this poetry collection that is so well tuned to the needs of teaching.
A Wonderful Resource - By: , 18 Jul 2004 This book is simply brilliant! It provides examples for alll the types of poems necessary to teach the literacy hour. It can be used to supplement examples that you already have or alternatively it can provide alll the poems you need in order to explain to children about the different forms of poetry. I first used it teaching haikus to a year four class & found it reallly helpful when looking for additional examples to supplement the explanation I gave the children.
The Works- a collection of poetry for the Literacy Hour - By: , 06 Jul 2002 As a practising Primary School teacher, this collection will be of great use to me. It has a copy of every possible type of poem that you would need in order to teach poetry effectively as part of the Literacy Hour. As the Literacy co-ordinator I am also tempted to buy a copy of this book for every class in the school.
Vital resource for anbody in the teaching profession. - By: , 26 Apr 2001 This book is invaluable for teaching literacy in Primary Schools. As a 3rd Year trainee teacher this book has proved very useful. When presented with teaching a whole range of poetry in Year 6, the book provided the only basic reference source I needed. It has an easy format to follow by simply grouping the poems in poetry type for example, humourous & shape poems. I did use other poetry books to supplement the book such as, 'The Puffin book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry' edited by Brian Patten, which people would also find useful. By the amount of fellow trainee teachers who have this book I would recommend it to anybody.
Perhaps the best anthology of poetry for children I know. - By: , 19 Sep 2000 This marvelous anthology collects alll manner of poems for children, from nursery rhymes & nonsense verse to haiku, shaped poems, chants, clerihews, & much more (about 380 poems in alll). Many of the poems are clever & funny, which is good for children, but some of them are quiet, thoughtful, & even beautiful. So far, I don't think I've come across any that are needlessly sentimental. Plenty of the poems show a good sense of what it is like to be a child. My sons, ages 7 & 9, are enjoying the book enormously--they've forgotten to ask for poems from their earlier favorite collections. I believe this is the best anthology of poems for children that I know of. Parents, teachers, & kids will alll find a great deal here to enjoy.
