The Poetry Friday Anthology (TEKS Version; K-5 Teacher Edition)

Book excerpt: This is the Texas TEKS version of The Poetry Friday Anthology, offering a set of 36 poems for each grade level, K-5 (a poem-a-week for the 9 months of the typical school year). Drawing on decades of experience in classrooms all over the world as well as volumes of academic research and writing, this book presents activities that are poem-specific, skill-based, developmentally appropriate for each weekly poem and that connect to the Texas Poetry TEKS. The Poetry Friday Anthology makes it easy for you to take five minutes every Friday to share a poem, connecting it with children's lives and capitalizing on a teachable moment. NOTE: There is also a K-5 Common Core version, as well as TEKS and Common Core versions of a Middle School Teacher Edition for grades 6-8. Other books in the series include The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science and The Poetry of Science, which support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (bilingual Spanish). For more info on this and other books in The Poetry Friday Anthology series and Poetry Friday Power Book series, please visit PomeloBooks.com.