Description
Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations Teacher / Librarian Edition
by Sylvia Vardell Janet Wong
ISBN 978-1-937057-41-1
Item #488
Celebrate all year long with THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR CELEBRATIONS—156 original poems in English and Spanish from 115 poets. Ideal for sharing aloud in 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.” Both books have the same poems in the same sequence.
The TEACHER/LIBRARIAN EDITION includes “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.
