Here is the hit some requested. If you get it more than once it's because
my computer froze when I tried to send it the first time, and I couldn't
tell if it went. Sorry.
The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat aka The Duel (Eugene Field)
The Adventures of Isabel (Ogden Nash)
Custard the Dragon (also Ogden Nash, I believe)
other poets to look for:
edward lear
lewis carroll
shel silverstein
jack prelutsky
doug florian
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Any books from Shel Silverstein and Douglas Florian are great poets for
children!!
I know that kids love poetry and they really have fun with it; especially
when they get to pick what they want to write about. Go over the different
kinds of poetry (limmerick, acrostic, cinquain, shape poetry,etc.) and let
them choose who one they prefer.
April is poetry month, so you have a few weeks to prepare yourself. Check
your library shelves and see what's there. I would think there must be some
books in the 800's. The K-3s are the most fun to read poetry to, and during
April I'll be reading to them during each class. Among the most-enjoyed
books I have are any of Shel Silverstein's (The Light in the Attic, Where
the sidewalk ends, etc.) They feel a little dated sometimes, but the kids
enjoy his poems. Jack Prelutsky--a little more modern than S.S., but still
light and funny, Two of his that I especially like are The New Kid on the
Block, and Something Big has Been Here. Then there's a short one called My
Parents Think I'm Sleeping. He has a lot of short books of poems for
seasons, like Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day. One of the best has his name
as editor I think, The 20th Century Anthology of Children's Poetry or
something like that. Get that if you don't get anything else. It's full of
"visual poetry" which attracts the kids. Arnold Adoff has many books I've
never seen, but I have Eats which we enjoy. And don't forget the stories in
rhyme, like The Giant Jam Sandwich, and any number I've forgotten. (One of
my favorite moments is when the K's or 1's are listening, and someone will
say "Hey that rhymes!" For the older kids, Casey at the Bat, Sharon
Creech's Love That Dog, Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust. I know there are
more. I just don't have them in my tiny library.
Well, that's probably more than enough for one note. Don't be afraid of
poetry.
Ah poetry, many a teacher or librarian's bane - how about Dennis
Lee, Kalli Dakos, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, a book
called Jumpety Bumpity Hop, Eric Carle's Animals Animals and
Dragons Dragons, Lewis Carroll, A. A. Milne, Kenn Nesbit, Eve
Merriam, Valerie Worth, Vachel Lindsay, Aileen Fisher, Bobbi
Kalman... I'm sure there are more! Have fun!
have fun with it, use shel silverstein light in the attic, sidewalk and
attic books, read prelutsky, it is more important to enjoy poetry and want
more.
Here are several I like to use with that age group. I read the
first three as stories, not necessarily pitching them as poems
and kids sit through them. The first two, illustrated by
Christopher Bing, are geared to keep kids interested, especially
"Casey at the bat". I read "Hurry, hurry, Mary Dear" every year
in the beginning of winter and the kids love the comuppance at
the end. We talk about them as stories, and then when I read
A.A. Milne in April during poetry month they are more used to
hearing poems and it's no big deal.
Title: Casey at the bat : a ballad of the Republic sung in the
year 1888 /
Author: Thayer, Ernest Lawrence,
Publisher: New York : Scholastic,
Publication Date: 2001.
ISBN: 0439331684 6.50
Subjects:
Baseball.
Poetry, American.
Added Entries:
Bing, Christopher,--ill.
Title: The midnight ride of Paul Revere /
Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Handprint Books,
Publication Date: 2001.
ISBN: 1929766130 9.00
Notes:
With maps and facsmiles of actual documents.
Subjects:
Revere, Paul,--1735-1818.
Revolution, 1775-1783--History.
Poetry, American.
Title: Hurry, hurry, Mary dear /
Author: Bodecker, N. M.
Publisher: New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books,
Publication Date: 1998.
ISBN: 0689817703
Summary:
A woman frantically rushes to prepare fot the
fast-approaching winter while her husband sits idly by.
Subjects:
Seasons--Poetry.
Married people--Poetry.
Nonsense verses.
Title: Now we are six /
Author: Milne, A.A.
Publisher: New York : Dell Yearling,
Publication Date: 1927.
Physical Description: pb
ISBN: 0440764858
Notes:
"First published in the United States of America by E.P.
Dutton, 1927"--T.p. verso.
Summary:
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a
little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth
century.
Elizabeth Varley
Wilmington Montessori School
Infant/Toddler to 6th Grade
1400 Harvey Road
Wilmington, Delaware 19810
"Establishing a lasting peace is the work of education; all
politics can do is keep us out of war."
-Maria Montessori
Florian, George, J.Patrick Lewis, Grimes, Aileen Fisher;Dickinson, Frost,
Stevenson, Wallace
Jack Prelutsky is always great, as well as Shel Silverstein, but
I love
Jack's stuff best! Nicky Grimes has some great books as well.
Jack Prelutsky is always great, as well as Shel Silverstein, but
I love
Jack's stuff best! Nicky Grimes has some great books as well.
Read anything by Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky - both are
fun to read with the kids.
Poems Third Graders should know
Adventures of Isabel by Ogden Nash
By Myself by Elise Greenfield
Catch a little Rhyme By Eve Merriam
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
Knoxville, Tennesee by Nikki Giovanni
The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
Trees by Sergeant Joyce Kilmer
For want of a nail (Traditional Mothe Goose rhyme)
Jimmy Jet and his TV set by Shel Silverstein
First Thanksgiving of All by Nancy Byrd Turner
Eletelephony by Laura Richards
Father William by Lewis Carroll
POEMS Fourth Graders Should Know
Monday's Child is fair of Face Author unknown
Humanity by Elma Stuckey
Fog by Carl Sandburg
Things by Eloise Greenfield
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Rhinioceros by Ogden Nash
The Pobble who has no toes by Edward Lear
A Tragic Story by William Makepeace Thackeray
Clarence by Shel Silverstein
Paul evere's Ride by Heny Wadsworth Longfellow
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Washington by Stephen Vincent Benet
Janet Perry, Prek-12 Librarian
Cerro Gordo CUSD 100, Cerro Gordo, IL
perrybros@hotmail.com
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