A Poem for Every Day! An Anthology of 180 Poems With Activities to Enhance Your Teaching

by Moger, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780439656139
• ISBN10: 0439656133
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Teaching Resources

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(9)
Connections Chart	16	(1)
Poems for Patriots	17	(17)
The Star-Spangled Banner (Excerpt)	17	(1)
Francis Scott Key
The American Flag	17	(1)
Rebecca Godfrey
I Hear America Singing	18	(1)
Walt Whitman
America the Beautiful (Excerpt)	19	(1)
Katherine Lee Bates
America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) (Excerpt)	20	(1)
Samuel F. Smith
Old man. . .	20	(1)
Salli Benedict
Red, White, and Blue	21	(1)
Devin F. Smith
On Their Appointed Rounds (Inscription on the Main Post Office, New York City)	21	(1)
Lincoln Monument: Washington	22	(1)
Langston Hughes
Lift Every Voice and Sing (Excerpt)	22	(1)
James Weldon Johnson
Passing Through Albuquerque	23	(1)
John Balaban
Paul Revere's Ride	24	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Barbara Frietchie	27	(1)
John Greenleaf Whittier
Hymn (Dedication of the Concord Monument)	28	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The New Colossus	29	(1)
Emma Lazarus
The Statue of Liberty	29	(1)
Lauren Strainge
We Are a Living People	30	(1)
Lori Wautier
Oriflamme	31	(1)
Jessie Fauset
Frederick Douglass	32	(1)
Robert Hayden
The Women Who Went to the Field	33	(1)
Clara Barton
Poems About the Living World	34	(26)
Adowe	34	(1)
Maurice Kenny
April Rain Song	35	(1)
Langston Hughes
Watching Wolves	35	(1)
Susan Moger
Winter Poem	35	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
The Little Turtle	36	(1)
Vachel Lindsay
The Cow	36	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Look at Six Eggs	37	(1)
Carl Sandburg
A White Hen Sitting	37	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Give Me the Splendid, Silent Sun (Excerpt)	37	(1)
Walt Whitman
Bare Feet and Dog	38	(1)
Susan Moger
Panda Dreams	38	(1)
Susan Moger
The Eagle	39	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Fireflies	39	(1)
Quincy Troupe
Insects	40	(1)
Sam DiTonno
The Butterfly	40	(1)
Cathy Bamji
White Butterflies	41	(1)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Squirrel Hill	41	(1)
Susan Moger
Tiger	42	(1)
Andi Overbaugh
Schools of Whales	42	(1)
Susan Moger
Whales	42	(1)
Tasheena Stevens
Last Leaf	43	(1)
Shirley Johannesen Levine
The Birthright	44	(1)
Eiluned Lewis
Nubian Goats	44	(1)
Samantha Lundstrom
Birches	45	(2)
Robert Frost
Chamber Music XXXV	47	(1)
James Joyce
On the Mississippi	47	(1)
Hamlin Garland
The Cataract at Lodore (Excerpt)	48	(2)
Robert Southey
The Wild Swans at Coole	50	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Improved Farm Land	51	(1)
Carl Sandburg
How One Winter Came in the Lake Region	52	(1)
Wilfred Campbell
Sledding	53	(1)
Spencer Bassette
Fog	53	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Who Has Seen the Wind?	54	(1)
Christina Rossetti
The Wind	54	(1)
Rachel Moger-Reischer
The Storm	55	(1)
Sara Coleridge
Daffadowndilly	55	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Wrens and Robins in the Hedge	56	(1)
Christina Rossetti
On the Grassy Banks	56	(1)
Christina Rossetti
April	56	(1)
Sara Teasdale
Song (Excerpt)	57	(1)
Amy Lowell
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer	57	(1)
Walt Whitman
Milk-White Moon, Put the Cows to Sleep	58	(1)
Carl Sandburg
The Horses of the Sea	58	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Scents of the Ocean	59	(1)
Christina Baker
I Walked to the Beach	59	(1)
Samantha Seney
Haiku	60	(2)
Spring grass is peaceful	60	(1)
Caitlin Peterson
Fall is bright yellow red	60	(1)
Josh Kleinhans
Two geese flying fast	60	(1)
Angela Pomykaj
This is not the moon	60	(1)
Ariwara No Narihira
A wild sea	61	(1)
Basho
The cicada sings	61	(1)
Anonymous
Bears eating bacon	61	(1)
Erica Bilodeau
Heavy humid air	61	(1)
Nathaniel Peterson
Joyful, bright blue sky	61	(1)
Paige Allen
A violet bloomed	61	(1)
Rachel Moger-Reischer
Poems About People, Places, and Things	62	(29)
I'm Nobody! Who Are You?	62	(1)
Emily Dickinson
A Thought	62	(1)
Rachel Moger-Reischer
My Quilt	63	(1)
Lauren Strainge
Soup	64	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Evening in Margaret's Kitchen	64	(1)
Susan Moger
You... and Your Dad	65	(1)
Katie Ferman
To My Dear and Loving Husband	66	(1)
Anne Bradstreet
Upon Julia's Clothes	66	(1)
Robert Herrick
Jump	67	(1)
Caitlin Peterson
Song for the Last Unicorn	68	(1)
Carol Peck
Waiting for You	68	(1)
Susan Moger
Feelings Alive	69	(1)
Carol Peck
Brother in Hospital	70	(1)
Vanessa Cooke
Aunts & Uncles	70	(1)
Susan Moger
Pine Bedding	71	(1)
Whitney Fairchild
My Valentine	72	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
The First Time Anyone Called You My Boyfriend	72	(1)
Susan Moger
I Am Cherry Alive	73	(1)
Delmore Schwartz
Sea Shell	74	(1)
Amy Lowell
September	74	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Morning Memory	74	(1)
Ubec Aymat
How Many Ways to Say Rhode Island	75	(1)
Michaela Palmer
Song for a Little House	76	(1)
Christopher Morley
Schools	76	(1)
Susan Moger
Broadway	77	(1)
Sara Teasdale
City	77	(1)
Langston Hughes
Home Thoughts, from Abroad	78	(1)
Robert Browning
Roadways (Excerpt)	79	(1)
John Masefield
Rhyme of the Rail (Excerpt)	79	(1)
John Godfrey Saxe
The Railway Train	80	(1)
Emily Dickinson
If I Were a Pony	80	(1)
Grandma Mountain	81	(1)
Abby Brooking
A Satisfactory Way to Rule the World	81	(1)
Rachel Moger-Reischer
The Great Figure	82	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Sea Slant	82	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Good Night	83	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Our Clever Hands	83	(1)
Carol Peck
Piano Lessons (Excerpt)	84	(1)
Billy Collins
Music	84	(1)
Caitlin Mahar
Shirt	85	(1)
Carl Sandburg
With an Encyclopedia You Can	85	(1)
Susan Moger
The Road Not Taken	86	(1)
Robert Frost
Reading an Old Cookbook	87	(1)
Susan Moger
On Laughter	87	(1)
Rachel Moger-Reischer
How Many Ways to Say Cooking	88	(1)
Kiki Camerota
Fried Dough	88	(1)
Taylor Sheldon
Contrast	89	(1)
Rachel Moger-Reischer
Problems, Problems!	89	(1)
Shirley Johannesen Levine
In a Breath	90	(1)
Rachel Moger-Reischer
Poems About Poetry and Words	91	(5)
Spelling Bee	91	(1)
David McCord
Spelling Challenge	91	(1)
Susan Moger
The Poet Speaks	92	(1)
John Henrik Clarke
Without a Net	92	(1)
Susan Moger
AEIOU	92	(1)
Susan Moger
Long Ago	93	(1)
Susan Moger
Primer Lesson	93	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Playful Words	93	(1)
Shirley Johannesen Levine
Just-Right Vocabulary Pie	94	(1)
Susan Moger
Hyperbole	94	(1)
Roy Moger-Reischer
Synonyms	95	(1)
Susan Moger
Onomatopoeia	95	(1)
Roy Moger-Reischer
Poems of Beauty and Magic	96	(16)
Silver	96	(1)
Walter de la Mare
Velvet Shoes	97	(1)
Elinor Wylie
The Children's Hour	98	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sea Fever (Excerpt)	99	(1)
John Masefield
Fairy Land IV	99	(1)
William Shakespeare
Charlotte	100	(1)
Susan Moger
A Birthday Poem	100	(1)
Ted Kooser
Chamber Music V	101	(1)
James Joyce
Crows	101	(1)
Patricia Moger Varshavtchik
Friday Night at Miss Farida's Piano Lesson	102	(1)
Tae Kathleen Keller
The Song of Wandering Aengus	103	(1)
William Butler Yeats
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	104	(1)
William Wordsworth
The Bells	105	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe
Blackberry Eating	108	(1)
Galway Kinnell
The Bells of Shandon (Excerpt)	109	(1)
Francis Mahony
The Moon	109	(1)
Robert Bly
We Are All Riders to the Sea	110	(1)
Susan Moger
Winter Blue	110	(1)
Nate Dingman
Lime Green	110	(1)
Sarah Heitzman
Yellow	111	(1)
Dylan Sorenson
The Color Yellow	111	(1)
Brendan Nixon
Poems for Fun	112	(16)
Bed in Summer	112	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
At the Sea-side	112	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
My Shadow	113	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rain	113	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Silly Supper Farm	114	(1)
Susan Moger
When Fishes Set Umbrellas Up	114	(1)
Christina Rossetti
A Nautical Ballad (Excerpt)	115	(1)
Charles Edward Carryl
The Squirrel	116	(1)
Anonymous
Mary's Lamb (Excerpt)	116	(1)
Sara Josepha Hale
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	117	(1)
Edward Lear
Jabberwocky	118	(1)
Lewis Carroll
The Lobster-Quadrille	119	(1)
Lewis Carroll
Billy Button	120	(1)
Anonymous
Fuzzy Wuzzy	120	(1)
Anonymous
British Warm	120	(1)
Roy Moger-Reischer
Casey at the Bat	121	(2)
Ernest L. Thayer
How Many Seconds?	123	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Road Trip	123	(1)
Susan Moger
Invitation	123	(1)
Susan Moger
Beautiful Soup	124	(1)
Lewis Carroll
A Fly and a Flea in a Flue	124	(1)
Anonymous
Three Plum Buns	125	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Look and See	125	(1)
Susan Moger
Drake	125	(1)
Roy Moger-Reischer
Up the Hill	126	(1)
Susan Moger
Mix a Pancake	126	(1)
Christina Rossetti
The Fairies (Excerpt)	127	(1)
William Allingham
The Jumblies (Excerpt)	127	(1)
Edward Lear
The Night Wind	128
Eugene Field