My Interactive Alphabet in Verse with Shape Poems Activities and Answers
My Interactive Alphabet in Verse with Shape Poems Activities and Answers uses poetry, an art form as old as time itself, to awaken and motivate young minds to the joy of reading. It is written for young children ages 3 to 5 years old.
What better way to introduce young children to the letters of the alphabet, the backbone of the English language, than through poetry.
Young children are fascinated with verse and learn them effortlessly. In one section of the workbook, the author also introduces shape poems to children.
The alphabet poems and shape poems are followed by questions. This combination of poems and questions provides a meaningful experience for young children as they are also learning about sound, building vocabulary, learning to be more creative, developing critical thinking skills and enhancing fluency.
The activities in this workbook allow children to practice and reinforce basic skills. This workbook is also an effective tool for older children for whom English is a second language.
This workbook can become your child’s companion at the park, laundromat, and home, on the bus, train, and car or even on vacation.
“My Interactive Alphabet in Verse” – Book 1
Parents are you searching for a book that will:
- Foster a love for reading
- Teach basic reading skills
- Produce critical thinkers
- Engage your child through interactive activities
- Promote a healthy attitude towards learning
- Awaken creativity in your child
- Effective tool for older children for whom English is a second language
This workbook “My Interactive Alphabet in Verse” uses poetry, to introduce the alphabet through verse. Poetry, a tried and tested art form in all cultures, is a powerful teaching tool for parents and teachers alike. Young children enjoy listening to verse and learn them, effortlessly. Rhymes and jingles, capture and hold their attention in a way prose cannot.
“My Interactive Alphabet in Verse” is filled with poems, using each letter of the alphabet, as well as shape poems. The shape poems entice children to explore and question words, to think critically as they try to make sense of the lines that make up the poem.
This workbook is also a valuable tool for children for whom English is a second language. It provides the basic foundation of the English language through auditory and visual stimulation, found in the activities throughout the workbook.
Let us expose our children, at an early age, to the beauty of the English language through verse. In this way, we are helping to produce life-long readers.
My Interactive Book of Poems: Book 2 – Elementary and Middle School
This book, My Interactive Book of Poems, is unique, practical, useful and universal in its presentation and content. The book is divided into 9 sections with over 50 original poems of varying lengths and level of difficulty all written by the author. It introduces children to six types of poems: Shape, Haiku, Acrostic, Rhyming, Free Verse and Narrative. Children are encouraged to read the poem aloud at least three times, as they listen to the words the poem comes alive.
It is important to note that children do not have to like all the poems. They may begin in any section, with any poem and work backwards or forward. There are no restrictions. The activities which follow will further test children’s understanding of the poem. The 8th section contains additional activities. Answers to all questions are in the 9th section.
This book is compact, will hold in your child’s bag, and easy to read. Your child needs nothing more than a pencil or pen, crayons and a willingness to embark on a very pleasant journey with a friend, parent/adult, teacher, older sibling or alone. My Interactive Book of Poems will soon become your child’s companion on a plane, a train, a road trip, the car or bus and at home. The possibilities are endless. Parents then can rest at ease knowing that My Interactive Book of Poems will be a positive, rewarding learning experience.
Parents are you searching for a book that will:
- Keep your child/children engaged
- Expose them to a missing learning experience
- Awaken their interest in the world around them
- Develop a love for reading
- Increase creativity
- Improve critical thinking skills
- Help children for whom English is a second language
This book “My Interactive Book of Poems” is the answer. It will satisfy all the above and it is affordable. It may be used in schools or at home.
- Very often children may spend only a few minutes at an activity and lose interest. This can be frustrating to parents. They’ll voice the age-old complaint, “I’m bored”. With this book, children will look forward to resuming or tackling a new project, usually without prompting, coaxing or bribing.
- After teaching children of all ages and abilities for many years, I have become a proponent of teaching poetry at every level in schools. For me, poetry became a teaching tool, a way of adding fun, excitement and even sobriety to a lesson in any subject. Teachers can use poetry to inject interest, cooperation and sometimes a little light-heartedness to even the most difficult group, whether the subject is music, language arts, science and even math.
- Children can be awakened to view the world around them from their vision and see and feel the beauty of even a raindrop or a snowflake. We and our children have the poetic license to see, feel and touch the deeper things of life, to enjoy our Earth with our neighbors.
- As we expose our children to poetry, they become more aware of themselves and others and realize that words are important to help them communicate. They may not realize it then but they are being propelled to do more for themselves, be better readers and strengthen their ability to communicate. I have heard parents say “I don’t have a creative bone in me and I don’t think my child has either”. What a burden to place on them?- limitation- that will remain with him/her for life. That is far from the truth. We are all creative, but we have placed limitations on our creativity. Poetry breaks that spell and sets us free to be who we truly are.