The Poetry Friday Anthology

"A treasury of the greatest science poetry for children ever written, with a twist" (NSTA Recommends) THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR SCIENCE (K-5 Teacher/Librarian Edition) features 218 poems by 78 award-winning and popular poets connecting science with reading and language arts. Take 5! activities highlight concepts and topics identified in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) plus state science standards such as the Texas TEKS. The "Take 5!" activities also incorporate the literacy skills identified in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Poetry TEKS. This book makes it easy to incorporate STEM and language arts. There are several easy ways to use this book: Match poems and science lessons using the weekly themes or the index at the back of the book to identify relevant science topics. Add poetry sharing to a planned science lesson by taking one minute to read aloud a science poem to set the stage for the instruction. Or end with a poem to reinforce the concepts introduced in a science lesson and build knowledge retention. * * * The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science includes poems by 78 poets: Newbery and Newbery Honor winners Margarita Engle, Linda Sue Park, and Joyce Sidman; National Book Award winner Virginia Euwer Wolff; Children's Poet Laureates Mary Ann Hoberman, J. Patrick Lewis, and Kenn Nesbitt; and more, with Spanish bilingual poems by Alma Flor Ada, Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, F. Isabel Campoy, Margarita Engle, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, and Carmen Tafolla. Pair this Teacher's Edition with THE POETRY OF SCIENCE (the illustrated companion Student Edition, arranged by theme). For more information about the other books in THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY series, see www.PomeloBooks.com.

This is the Texas TEKS version of The Poetry Friday Anthology, offering a set of 36 poems for each grade level, K-5 (a poem-a-week for the 9 months of the typical school year). Drawing on decades of experience in classrooms all over the world as well as volumes of academic research and writing, this book presents activities that are poem-specific, skill-based, developmentally appropriate for each weekly poem and that connect to the Texas Poetry TEKS. The Poetry Friday Anthology makes it easy for you to take five minutes every Friday to share a poem, connecting it with children's lives and capitalizing on a teachable moment. NOTE: There is also a K-5 Common Core version, as well as TEKS and Common Core versions of a Middle School Teacher Edition for grades 6-8. Other books in the series include The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science and The Poetry of Science, which support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (bilingual Spanish). For more info on this and other books in The Poetry Friday Anthology series and Poetry Friday Power Book series, please visit PomeloBooks.com.

An NCTE Poetry Notable, The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School (Grades 6-8) is designed to help teachers meet the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in the English Language Arts (ELA). Take 5 teaching tips for each poem provide step-by-step poetry lessons that address curriculum requirements. These 110 poems include examples of many techniques, forms, and elements such as rhyme, repetition, and rhythm; metaphor and simile; personification; onomatopoeia; hyperbole; dramatic irony; and different forms. The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School (PFAMS) offers a set of 36 poems (a poem-a-week for the 9 months of the typical school year) for each grade level. This is the Middle School (grades 6-8) Common Core edition; there is also a Middle School (6-8) TEKS edition for Texas (and elementary school editions for K-5). The 110 poems in this book represent the work of 71 of the best poets who are writing for young people today. Those poets are: Joy Acey, Jeannine Atkins, Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, Robyn Hood Black, Calef Brown, Joseph Bruchac, Jen Bryant, Leslie Bulion, Stephanie Calmenson, Deborah Chandra, Kate Coombs, Cynthia Cotten, Kristy Dempsey, Margarita Engle, Betsy Franco, Carole Gerber, Charles Ghigna, Joan Bransfield Graham, Nikki Grimes, Lorie Ann Grover, Monica Gunning, Mary Lee Hahn, Avis Harley, David L. Harrison, Terry Webb Harshman, Juanita Havill, Georgia Heard, Stephanie Hemphill, Sara Holbrook, Carol-Ann Hoyte, Patricia Hubbell, Jacqueline Jules, X.J. Kennedy, Linda Kulp, Julie Larios, Irene Latham, Renée M. LaTulippe, Gail Carson Levine, Debbie Levy, J. Patrick Lewis, George Ella Lyon, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Heidi Mordhorst, Marilyn Nelson, Lesléa Newman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ann Whitford Paul, Jack Prelutsky, Mary Quattlebaum, Heidi Bee Roemer, Michael J. Rosen, Deborah Ruddell, Laura Purdie Salas, Michael Salinger, Ted Scheu, Joyce Sidman, Marilyn Singer, Ken Slesarik, Sonya Sones, Eileen Spinelli, Holly Thompson, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Lee Wardlaw, Charles Waters, April Halprin Wayland, Robert Weinstock, Steven Withrow, Allan Wolf, Virginia Euwer Wolff, Janet Wong, and Jane Yolen. See PomeloBooks.com for more info, including "poem movies" and additional curriculum connections.

Celebrate all year long with The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations, an ILA Notable Book for a Global Society with 156 poems in English and SPANISH. Ideal for preK - grade 6. This latest book in The Poetry Friday Anthology series offers 12 poems per month and 12 poems with the theme of Birthdays and Baby Days PLUS Take 5! mini-lessons for teaching and sharing skills and standards such as the CCSS and the TEKS. In addition, each poem is linked to a picture book recommendation and other poems in the book for text-to-text connections. Choose your favorite celebrations for each month! Choices include: traditional holidays such as Valentine's Day, Easter, Passover, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas; book-related holidays such as Read Across America Day, National Library Week, DEAR Day (Drop Everything And Read), Children's Book Week, and Dewey Decimal Day; celebrations of diversity such as Black History Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, Three Kings Day, Lunar New Year, the end of Ramadan, Obon, and Diwali; and unusual celebrations such as National Hat Day, Daylight Savings Time Day, National Pet Week, National Sports & Fitness Month, Shark Week, and National Cookie Day; and historic commemorations such as Presidents' Day, Flag Day, 4th of July, National Moon Walk Day, Constitution and Citizenship Day, Election Day, and Veteran's Day. Note: The Poetry Friday Anthology for CELEBRATIONS is available in two editions. This listing refers to the TEACHER/LIBRARIAN Edition of this book. A separate Student Edition of this book is also available. See PomeloBooks.com or PoetryCelebrations.com for more info.

"In this book you'll find twelve special celebrations for each month and twelve poems for "Birthdays & Baby Days"--so get ready to have a Poetry PARTY! What are your favorite holidays? If you like hats, or pets, or getting letters, or riding your bike, or eating cookies, or solving puzzles, or reading, or playing video games al day long ... you'll find a bunch of days to celebrate. Plus poems for Valentine's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving & more!"--Page [4] cover.

"In this book you'll find 248 poems about science, technology, engineering, math-- and all your favorite topics! If you like learning about animals, machines, Earth and space, famous scientists, science projects, and how things work...you'll find a ton of poems to inspire you. Read about being a citizen scientist, an inventor, an engineer, a video game programmer, and astronaut & more!"--