A Poem A Day by Helen H. Moore

This book is a compilation of poems covering a range of topics from adjectives to friendships. Not only does this book have a poem that can connect to any lesson, school, life or otherwise, it also has lesson plans listed along with the poems in the book for teachers to use or modify and use for ideas to create their own lesson plans.


Teachers: Here are some resources to help you use this book...
Helen H. Moore JacketFlap Profile This website has information on the author and other works by her if you like this book.
A Poem a Day On this website you can find not only a book description, ratings and reviews but also links to other blogs that posted about this book.


Vocabulary: The vocabulary in this book is fairly simple, however, the Seasons and Special Days section of poems may bring up topics that will include vocabulary that may need a little bit of explanation. For example the poems cover, Kwanzaa, MLK Jr., Mr. Lincoln, and other topics that may include vocabulary that may need to be explained. An example of one word may be Civil Rights.


Teaching Suggestions:
1. Before Reading The students should examine the title of the poem and predict what they think the poem and its message will be before reading it.
2. During Reading While reading the poems it is important that the teacher model appropriate reading of a poem. It can not be assumed that the students will know the right way to read a poem and it maybe useful pass out copies of the poem and have the students mark with single or double slashes depending on how long it is appropriate to pause and then have students read the poems aloud together as a class.
3. After Reading/Writing Book Preview Follow this link to amazon.com and you can take a look inside the book. If you go to the first pages you can see a sample of what is in the book. It has the poem followed by an activity or booklink.


Moore, Helen H.. A Poem a Day (Grades K-3). New York: Scholastic, 1999.