More Phonics Through Poetry: Teaching Phonemic Awareness Using Poetry

I am a first gade teacher who is always looking for new approaches to teaching, especially topics that can be dry--sorry folks--like phonics. This book, "More Phonics Through Poetry," like the first book, "Phonics Through Poetry" affords me some great materials for shared reading which stress specific sounds (and also endings, contractions, and prefixes and suffixes) by repeating them in delightful poetry. The sounds in this book are more difficult than in the first and include consonant digraphs, blends, diphthongs, etc. While some of the poems were obviously written for this purpose, most of them can be applied to a theme as well as to a targeted sound. In addition to the two to three poems per sound, there are other ideas for uses for the poems, blackline masters for use with them, and the cross-references to help you use the poems with themes. This book will definitely help you "work smarter, not harder."

Love using this with my students when learning new concepts!

I bought this book along with the 1st version. I went to use it today for a ck digraph, and I realized that my brand new book is missing pages 7-22. The book was clearly first opened by me, and there are no pages torn out, they were never put in!!! Very disappointing, as in general, these poems make learning the phonics concepts more engaging.

Goes GREAT with Words their Way program!!

This book is really useful. There are just a few sounds that I wish were included.

The description of the condition it was in was misleading. It was definitely more used than expected.

This book is fine for a teacher to use when focusing on specific sounds. I always re-write the poem on chart paper so that we can chorally read the poem together. This book is not meant for student use. It is all black and white, and not exactly intriguing for the students.

Every elementary teacher should own this book. Easy to use and understand. Students are engaged in the poems and look forward to phonics lessons.