The anthologies in this series are updated and revised versions of previously published titles, each with several brand new poems in them. A matching Teacher Resource Book is also available and has lessons based on different poetry types, each focusing on a specific poem from one of the anthologies.
A Poem to Rap, Chant, Whisper Or Shout for Every Day of the Year
"Read Me Out Loud" contains a poem for every day of the year from the very best modern and classic poets. There are raps, performance poems, chants, playground rhymes, action verses, poems to join in with, choral poems, poems from different cultures, monologues, dialogues, poems for a series of voices, songs, playlets, loud poems and quiet poems, poems with sound effects and poems with actions you can read them any way you want as long as it is Out Loud! This work includes poems from James Carter, Lewis Carroll, Charles Causely, Paul Cookson, David Harmer, Roger McGough, Gareth Owen, Roger Stevens, Nick Toczek, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Kit Wright and many, many more.
An anthology full of irreverent and cheeky poems about embarrassing grown-ups, whether it`s them making you cringe, or you making them blush. Things like your dad dancing badly, then trying to play football and your mum getting out photos of you as a baby...Or scenarios such as you asking guests rude questions, painting Dad`s face with make-up, and the whole class laughing at your teacher`s flies being undone. Be warned - this`ll make you squirm! French Teacher I want you to know, Mum That, whatever Dad says, You have much nicer legs Than our French teacher. Roger Stevens
Paul Cookson has collected verse old and new about the most tasteless and revolting things you can imagine - stinky socks, crusty cowpats, burps and bogies. This anthology has them all, and more.
This collection features 100 poems that are so short the reader just won't be able to forget them. They feature work by acclaimed modern poets such as Charles Causley, Brian Patten, and Benjamin Zephaniah. The poems are in various forms, and include sonnets, haikus, tankas, and couplets.
This is a colection of tongue twisters, ranging from the humorous to the serious, both rhyming and non-rhyming, and challenging to read at speed.
Every kind of poem teachers could wish for - all in one bumper book! The Works is 10 years old and this special anniversary edition features brand-new lesson plans from poets including John Foster, Brian Moses, Valerie Bloom, and Pie Corbett. The Works contains every kind of poem you will ever need for the Literacy Hour but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader. It's got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, kennings, couplets, thin poems, lists, conversations, monologues, epitaphs, songs, limericks, tankas, nonsense poems, raps, narrative verse, and performance poetry - that's just for starters. It features poems from the very best classic and modern poets, for William Blake, Michael Rosen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Ahlberg, W.H. Auden, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Roald Dahl, Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot, and William Shakespeare to name but a few.
This work is an anthology of challenging tongue twisters which are also poems.
