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Authors: Susan Moger
ISBN-13: 9780439656139, ISBN-10: 0439656133
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Susan Moger

Book Synopsis

Spark a love of poetry and language with this classroom treasury of poems. It includes time-tested classics by poets such as Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Elinor Wylie, and Emily Dickinson, plus new poems sure to become classroom favorites. The poems are perfect for teaching poetic forms such as haiku, cinquain, and free verse, as well as figurative language such as metaphor, alliteration, similes, and more. Also includes teaching tips and activities. A resource you'll turn to again and again. For use with Grades 3-5.

	Introduction	7
	Connections Chart	16
	Poems for Patriots	17
1	The Star-Spangled Banner (Excerpt)	17
2	The American Flag (5th grader, 2002)	17
3	I Hear America Singing	18
4	America the Beautiful (Excerpt)	19
5	America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) (Excerpt)	20
6	Old man...	20
7	Red, White, and Blue (5th grader, 2001)	21
8	On Their Appointed Rounds (Inscription on the Main Post Office, New York City)	21
9	Lincoln Monument: Washington	22
10	Lift Every Voice and Sing (Excerpt)	22
11	Passing Through Albuquerque	23
12	Paul Revere's Ride	24
13	Barbara Frietchie	27
14	Hymn (Dedication of the Concord Monument)	28
15	The New Colossus	29
16	The Statue of Liberty (5th grader, 2001)	29
17	We Are a Living People	30
18	Oriflamme	31
19	Frederick Douglass	32
20	The Women Who Went to the Field	33
	Poems About the Living World	34
21	Adowe	34
22	April Rain Song	35
23	Watching Wolves	35
24	Winter Poem	35
25	The Little Turtle	36
26	The Cow	36
27	Look at Six Eggs	37
28	A White Hen Sitting	37
29	Give Me the Splendid, Silent Sun (Excerpt)	37
30	Bare Feet and Dog	38
31	Panda Dreams	38
32	The Eagle	39
33	Fireflies	39
34	Insects (5th grader, 2002)	40
35	The Butterfly	40
36	White Butterflies	41
37	Squirrel Hill	41
38	Tiger (5th grader, 2002)	42
39	Schools of Whales	42
40	Whales (5th grader, 2003)	42
41	Last Leaf	43
42	The Birthright	44
43	Nubian Goats (5th grader, 2003)	44
44	Birches	45
45	Chamber Music XXXV	47
46	On the Mississippi	47
47	The Cataract at Lodore (Excerpt)	48
48	The Wild Swans at Coole	50
49	Improved Farm Land	51
50	How One Winter Came in the Lake Region	52
51	Sledding (5th grader, 2001)	53
52	Fog	53
53	Who Has Seen the Wind?	54
54	The Wind	54
55	The Storm	55
56	Daffadowndilly	55
57	Wrens and Robins in the Hedge	56
58	On the Grassy Banks	56
59	April	56
60	Song (Excerpt)	57
61	When I Heard the Learned Astronomer	57
62	Milk-White Moon, Put the Cows to Sleep	58
63	The Horses of the Sea	58
64	Scents of the Ocean (5th grader, 2002)	59
65	I Walked to the Beach (5th grader, 2002)	59
	Haiku	60
66	Spring grass is peaceful (4th grader, 2000)	60
67	Fall is bright yellow red (4th grader, 2000)	60
68	Two geese flying fast (5th grader, 2001)	60
69	This is not the moon	60
70	A wild sea	61
71	The cicada sings	61
72	Bears eating bacon (5th grader, 2002)	61
73	Heavy humid air (5th grader, 2003)	61
74	Joyful, bright blue sky (5th grader, 2002)	61
75	A violet bloomed	61
	Poems About People, Places, and Things	62
76	I'm Nobody! Who Are You?	62
77	A Thought	62
78	My Quilt (5th grader, 2001)	63
79	Soup	64
80	Evening in Margaret's Kitchen	64
81	You...and Your Dad (age 11, 2004)	65
82	To My Dear and Loving Husband	66
83	Upon Julia's Clothes	66
84	Jump (4th grader, 2000)	67
85	Song for the Last Unicorn	68
86	Waiting for You	68
87	Feelings Alive	69
88	Brother in Hospital (5th grader, 2001)	70
89	Aunts & Uncles	70
90	Pine Bedding (5th grader, 2003)	71
91	My Valentine	72
92	The First Time Anyone Called You My Boyfriend	72
93	I Am Cherry Alive	73
94	Sea Shell	74
95	September	74
96	Morning Memory (5th grader, 2001)	74
97	How Many Ways to Say Rhode Island (5th grader, 2001)	75
98	Song for a Little House	76
99	Schools	76
100	Broadway	77
101	City	77
102	Home Thoughts, from Abroad	78
103	Roadways (Excerpt)	79
104	Rhyme of the Rail (Excerpt)	79
105	The Railway Train	80
106	If I Were a Pony	80
107	Grandma Mountain (5th grader, 2002)	81
108	A Satisfactory Way to Rule the World	81
109	The Great Figure	82
110	Sea Slant	82
111	Good Night	83
112	Our Clever Hands	83
113	Piano Lessons (Excerpt)	84
114	Music (5th grader, 2001)	84
115	Shirt	85
116	With an Encyclopedia You Can	85
117	The Road Not Taken	86
118	Reading an Old Cookbook	87
119	On Laughter	87
120	How Many Ways to Say Cooking (5th grader, 2001)	88
121	Fried Dough (5th grader, 2003)	88
122	Contrast	89
123	Problems, Problems!	89
124	In a Breath	90
	Poems About Poetry and Words	91
125	Spelling Bee	91
126	Spelling Challenge	91
127	The Poet Speaks	92
128	Without a Net	92
129	AEIOU	92
130	Long Ago	93
131	Primer Lesson	93
132	Playful Words	93
133	Just-Right Vocabulary Pie	94
134	Hyperbole	94
135	Synonyms	95
136	Onomatopoeia	95
	Poems of Beauty and Magic	96
137	Silver	96
138	Velvet Shoes	97
139	The Children's Hour	98
140	Sea Fever (Excerpt)	99
141	Fairy Land IV	99
142	Charlotte	100
143	A Birthday Poem	100
144	Chamber Music V	101
145	Crows	101
146	Friday Night at Miss Farida's Piano Lesson (age 8, 2003)	102
147	The Song of Wandering Aengus	103
148	I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	104
149	The Bells	105
150	Blackberry Eating	108
151	The Bells of Shandon (Excerpt)	109
152	The Moon	109
153	We Are All Riders to the Sea	110
154	Winter Blue (5th grader, 2002)	110
155	Lime Green (5th grader, 2002)	110
156	Yellow (5th grader, 2002)	111
157	The Color Yellow (5th grader, 2001)	111
	Poems for Fun	112
158	Bed in Summer	112
159	At the Sea-side	112
160	My Shadow	113
161	Rain	113
162	Silly Supper Farm	114
163	When Fishes Set Umbrellas Up	114
164	A Nautical Ballad (Excerpt)	115
165	The Squirrel	116
166	Mary's Lamb (Excerpt)	116
167	The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	117
168	Jabberwocky	118
169	The Lobster-Quadrille	119
170	Billy Button	120
171	Fuzzy Wuzzy	120
172	British Warm	120
173	Casey at the Bat	121
174	How Many Seconds?	123
175	Road Trip	123
176	Invitation	123
177	Beautiful Soup	124
178	A Fly and a Flea in a Flue	124
179	Three Plum Buns	125
180	Look and See	125
181	Drake	125
182	Up the Hill	126
183	Mix a Pancake	126
184	The Fairies (Excerpt)	127
185	The Jumblies (Excerpt)	127
186	The Night Wind	128