Full Description
An easy-to-use resource for teaching essential reading skills to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. This book accompanies i-read 4 CD-ROM. It can be used alongside the CD-ROM for group and independent reading away from the interactive whiteboard. Series Editor Pie Corbett has specially selected poems for i-read written by a host of well-loved poets, to ensure that this unique collection provides children with a vibrant read. The collection includes a selection of poems with a common theme, poems from different times and cultures, haiku and cinquains.
Contents
Poems with a common themeMichael Lowe; Poem for a New Teacher, Nick Toczek; The Inspector Calls, Gervase Phinn; I Hear . . ., Berlie Doherty; Teacher, Paul Cookson; Mr Cartwright's Counting Rhyme, John Mole; Poems from a different culture / time: The Mere, translated by Michael Rosen; Glorious It Is, traditional Inuit; What is Snow?, Moira Andrew; The Magnificent Bull, traditional Dinka tribe (Sudan); The Locust, traditional Madagascar; A Smuggler's Song, Rudyard Kipling; Poems in different forms: Haiku Triptych, James Carter; Goodnight, Pamela Gillian; Triad, Adelaide Crapsey; The Warning, Adelaide Crapsey; Magic, Judith Nicholls; The Ballad of Killer Kincaid, Rose Impey; Ghost Train, Brian Moses; Hello Sir, traditional adapted by Michaela Morgan; A Visit to Yalding, John Coldwell; Waiting, Sue Cowling; A Chance in France, Pie Corbett.
