Best Poems For Middle School Students - April 2024

Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems

Award-winning poet Kristine O’Connell George, author of several successful picture books, now turns her attention to the middle school experience. The first year brings an array of challenges: making new friends, moving from class to class, tests and homework, changing for PE, gossip, school dances, and, of course, budding romance. Short, accessible poems in a variety of forms, but all in a single voice—that of a new middle schooler—evoke the memorable moments of the school year, exploring situations and emotions that will resonate with preteens. Lively illustrations complement this perc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618152504
• UPC: 046442152501
• ASIN: 0618152504
• ISBN: 0618152504
• Brand: Clarion Books
• Manufacturer: Clarion Books

Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

It’s the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . .takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes; nuances in word meanings; textual analysis, authorship, structure, and other skills for reading fiction and nonfiction; and writing arguments, informative texts, and narratives. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK™ series is built on a simple and irresistible co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0761160914
• ASIN: 0761160914
• ISBN: 0761160914
• Brand: Workman Publishing Company
• Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition)

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory―and pain―of being Latino American.Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250016789
• ASIN: 1250016789
• ISBN: 1250016789
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing

Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to use each one as a powerful tool for sparking successful writing. Each mentor text includes "Try this" suggestions for inviting students to get started. You'll also find "Interludes" woven throughout: examples of quickwrites that students crafted into... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0325098123
• ASIN: 0325098123
• ISBN: 0325098123
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

Dramatizing Classic Poetry: For Middle and High School Students (Young Actors Series)

Dramatizing Classic Poetry is an ideal way to involve students in classic literature and to integrate dramatization with the study of poems as literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, tihs unique book contains: More than 50 classic poems scripted to dramatize in the classroom and onstage. Authors included are Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Christina Rossetti, e. e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Walt Whitman, and others. Costume pieces and rhythm instrument suggestions to involve student... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1575251558
• ASIN: 1575251558
• ISBN: 1575251558
• Brand: Brand: Smith Kraus
• Manufacturer: Smith & Kraus

The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About their Bodies in Pictures and Words

An award-winning photographer asked several children "What is the best part of you?", and presents their answers in this sometimes funny, sometimes moving, deeply personal book that includes striking black-and-white photographs taken by the author. Ideal for parents and teacher to use to discuss body image, self-esteem, and diversity with children.

• ASIN: 0316703060
• ASIN: 0316703060
• ISBN: 9780316703062
• Brand: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Read All About It!: Great Read-Aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens

A treasury of fifty sensational read-aloud pieces for young adults.From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to Maniac Magee, sci-fi to op-ed, “Casey at the Bat” to a moving true story about the reunion of two Holocaust survivors, this wonderfully diverse collection of excerpts from newspapers, magazines, and books has been created by Jim Trelease especially to turn young people on to the many pleasures of reading. Here are thought-provoking columns from Mike Royko and Pete Hamill; excerpts from classics like To Kill a Mockingbird and “Rikki-tikki-tavi”; autobiographical sketche... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140146555
• ASIN: 0140146555
• ISBN: 9780140146554
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Odyssey

• ASIN: 0140268863
• ASIN: 0140268863
• ISBN: 9780140268867
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Kids' Poems (Grades 1)

Regie Routman shares her delightful selection of free verse poems written by first graders that will inspire your second graders to think, I can write poems like this too! Regie provides strategies for using kids' poems as models to guide children to write poems about things they know and care about: learning to skate, disliking asparagus, playing with a best friend, and more. She describes the way she invites children to study the model poem, beginning by asking kids, What do you notice? She shows how she demonstrates the poetry-writing process to children: thinking aloud and drafting poems a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0590227343
• UPC: 078073227341
• ASIN: 0590227343
• ISBN: 0590227343
• Brand: Scholastic
• Manufacturer: Teaching Strategies

Poetry Lessons to Meet the Common Core State Standards: Exemplar Poems With Engaging Lessons and Response Activities That Help Students Read, Understand, and Appreciate Poetry

Favorite poet and author Georgia Heard shares step-by-step poetry lessons that guide students to identify figurative language, hear rhyme, rhythm, and other poetic conventions, and explore imagery and theme—and then determine how these elements deepen their understanding of the poem. Students gain a thorough knowledge of poetic elements, which helps them meet Common Core State Standards in literature and language. Includes model poems, response activities, and performance tasks! For use with Grades K-5.

• ASIN: 0545374901
• ASIN: 0545374901
• ISBN: 0545374901
• Brand: Scholastic
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Notebook for Everyone: Workbook wide ruled blank lined for kids school college university students teens teachers adults for writing notes compositionss (1)

Perfect composition notebook to write notes.Can be used as a journal diary logbook for school college university and work.Wide ruled sheets on both sides.Suited perfectly for writing, taking notes, making lists, journalising, orgainzing, brainstorming ideas.Perfect gift for kids , teens and adults for most gift giving occasions,Softbound, flexible , strong, matte cover.Dimensions 8-5" x11 " between A4 and A5 paper, perfect size for backpack. bedside table , women's purse totebag, handbag, desk , school , college, home or workLined book 116 pages

• ASIN: 1082714550
• ASIN: 1082714550
• ISBN: 1082714550
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Wild About Books

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD!Winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud AwardIt started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo. In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal—tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for crickets. “She even found waterproof books for the otter, who never went swimming without Harry Potter.” In no time at all, Molly has them “forsaking their niches, their nests, and their nooks,” going “wi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 037582538X
• ASIN: 037582538X
• ISBN: 9780375825385
• Brand: Alfred A Knopf
• Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

The Important Book

"Rekindles the sense of wonder we were born with. True poetry about perceiving the world around us."*Margaret Wise Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of the perennial classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny, asks children to think deeply about the importance of everyday objects, from apples to spoons. With lyrical words and vivid illustrations by Caldecott winner Leonard Weisgard, The Important Book shows children just how important everyday objects can be.What is the most important thing about a spoon? The fact that you can eat with it? What about an apple? Or a shoe? This book he... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0064432270
• UPC: 201564432270
• ASIN: 0064432270
• ISBN: 0064432270
• Brand: HarperTrophy
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Seuss-isms! A Guide to Life for Those Just Starting Out...and Those Already on Their Way

A New York Times bestseller, this collection of quotes from Dr. Seuss makes a perfect gift for graduation! The one and only Dr. Seuss dispenses invaluable advice about life in this collection of his most memorable quotes. With over sixty pages of cherished Seuss art and quotes from such classics as The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches the Egg, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and many more, this humorous and inspiring collection is, indeed, perfect for those just starting out . . . or those who are already on their way!

• ASIN: 0553508415
• ASIN: 0553508415
• ISBN: 0553508415
• Brand: Random House Kids
• Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing

Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony Snicket, C. M. Mayo, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Moira Egan, Gary Soto, Lucille Clifton... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590308123
• ASIN: 1590308123
• ISBN: 1590308123
• Brand: Trumpeter
• Manufacturer: Roost Books

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Animal Design

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Animal

• UPC: 234815670

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique Design

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique

• UPC: 463369582

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Designs for G

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Designs for

• UPC: 680766323

Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & Universi

Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade &

• UPC: 706774337

Composition Notebook College Ruled: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique Designs Kids Elephant

Composition Notebook College Ruled: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique Designs Kids

• UPC: 328469073

The Best Cat Mom Ever: College Ruled Line Paper Blank Journal to Write in - Lined Writing Notebook for Middle School and College Students

The Best Cat Mom Ever: College Ruled Line Paper Blank Journal to Write in - Lined Writing Notebook for Middle School and College

• UPC: 942879945

Unicorn Teacher: Middle School Teacher Besties Teacher's Day Best Friend Composition Notebook College Students Wide Ruled Lined Paper M Paperback

Unicorn Teacher: Middle School Teacher Besties Teacher's Day Best Friend Composition Notebook College Students Wide Ruled Lined Paper M Height : 0.23 In Length : 9.00 In Width : 6.00 In Weight : 0.35

• UPC: 735447341

Unicorn Teacher: Middle School Teacher Besties Teacher's Day Best Friend Composition Notebook College Students Wide Ruled Lined Paper M

Unicorn Teacher: Middle School Teacher Besties Teacher's Day Best Friend Composition Notebook College Students Wide Ruled Lined Paper

• UPC: 902106057