Perfect Poems With Strategies for Building Fluency: Grades 5–6 Easy-to-Read Poems With Effective Strategies to Help Students Build Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension

by Scholastic Inc.; Scholastic Inc.

• ISBN13: 9780439560214
• ISBN10: 0439560217
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory and Practice)

Summary

Use poetry to help students become confident, fluent readers. This book includes more than 50 engaging poems specially selected for building different aspects of oral reading fluency, including intonation, phrasing, and recognition of phonics patterns and sight words. Also includes poems that are perfect for repeated readings and for partner and small group reading. Plus, research-based background on fluency and oral reading strategies to help students succeed. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

What Is Reading Fluency?	p. 4
How to Develop Fluency	p. 7
Using Poetry to Build Fluency	p. 12
Poems for Partners and Small Groups
Boom, Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy?	p. 14
Cloud Brothers	p. 15
Limericks	p. 17
How Many Legs?	p. 18
Mom's Allergic	p. 19
Languages My Neighbors Speak	p. 20
If You Should Meet a Crocodile	p. 21
Do You Carrot All for Me?	p. 22
Animals, Animals	p. 23
The Key of the Kingdom	p. 24
Seven Days of Supper	p. 25
Earth, What Will You Give Me?	p. 26
Poems to Build Intonation and Phrasing
To Be Answered in Our Next Issue	p. 27
Wondering	p. 28
Zoons	p. 30
Foul Shot	p. 31
Leap Year Lament	p. 32
The Joke You Just Told	p. 33
Whether the Weather	p. 34
The Goops	p. 35
Time for Bed	p. 36
See How They Run	p. 37
Spelling Test	p. 38
The Red Ball	p. 39
City I Love	p. 40
Some Poems	p. 41
Poems to Build Recognition of Phonics Patterns and Sight Words
A Thunderstorm	p. 42
Michael Finnegan	p. 43
Have You Ever Seen?	p. 44
Funny Foods	p. 45
Words	p. 46
A Magic Chant	p. 47
Animal Groups	p. 48
A Secret in My Pocket	p. 49
Color Song	p. 50
Mary Had a Little Lamb	p. 51
Old Hogan's Goat	p. 52
Paul Bunyan	p. 53
Night-Lights	p. 54
Poems for Repeated Readings
He Had a Dream	p. 55
American Heritage	p. 57
Revolutionary Tea	p. 58
I Don't Want To	p. 59
Granny and the Broomstick	p. 60
Mr. Nobody	p. 62
My Brother Bert	p. 63
The Song of the Camel	p. 65
From The Cares of a Caretaker	p. 67
From Adventures of Isabel	p. 69
Sick	p. 71
Fudge	p. 72
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