This companion to the Fountas &... more

This must-have resource will help teachers expand their collection of texts for shared reading, as well as connect learning across instructional contexts with the PWS System.

The accompanying guide, Words That Sing: Poetry Charts for Shared Reading: A Teaching Resource contains instructional suggestions and resources that will guide you in the many ways... more

This must-have resource will help teachers expand their collection of texts for shared reading, as well as connect learning across instructional contexts with the PWS System.

The accompanying guide, Words That Sing: Poetry Charts for Shared Reading: A Teaching Resource contains instructional suggestions and resources that will guide you in the... more

The cure for "I hate poetry!"

Your students (and maybe even you) might cringe at the word poetry. For many, poetry feels like finding the hidden meaning the poet worked so hard to hide from the reader. If poetry confuses your students, they’re likely to avoid it altogether.

In Whispering in the Wind, master educator Linda Rief... more

“Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small, And too, poems teach us how to write.  Anything.” Amy Ludwig VanDerwater explains in Poems Are Teachers.

This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher.  Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet... more

“As teachers today, everything we teach has to be turbo-charged with skills and the promise of advancing our students academically. Here’s the cool thing: poetry can get you there. It is inherently turbo-charged. Poets distill a novel’s worth of content and emotion in twenty lines. The literary elements and devices you need to teach are all there, powerful and miniature... more

Have you ever thought about what literacy might look like outside of the classroom? It’s everywhere! Think about it: the first word a young child may learn to read is STOP, and playing with chalk on a driveway or sidewalk is often a child’s first experience with drawing and writing. What if we take reading and writing out of the classroom and see how it... more

This shelf includes anthologies and chapbooks, or collections of poems by a single author. What unites this poetry is that the language, themes, topics, and content are relevant to kids’ lives. These poetry books will ignite your students’ interest in contemporary verse and serve as mentor texts for kids who read as writers.

The books in this library shelf are also... more