Poetry is valuable for stimulating young children's brain growth. Combine poetry with fun movements, and you've got an effective way to actively involve them in exploring science, math and language arts concepts. These finger rhymes cover themes such as: technology, outer space, colors, fruit, animals' life cycles, plants, sharing, birthdays, other cultures and numbers. What fun your children will have as they pretend to drive a car through a tunnel, fly on an airplane, float to the moon and personify numbers. They'll enjoy pretending to be growing animals, bouncing balls, rolling apples and newborn chicks. Plug these rhymes into your daily routine for fun enrichment during gym, science, math or language arts lessons. They'll transform your classroom lessons into live action!

The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence -- important building blocks for future readers. The 700 selections will help children ages 3 to 6 build a strong foundation in skills such as listening, imagination, coordination, and spatial and body awareness. In this giant book of rhythm and rhyme, you are sure to find your own childhood favorites! Book jacket.

A collection of finger rhymes about birds, earthworms, fireworks, and caterpillars.

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners. Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

Activity fun including: What are manners? ; courtesy creatures ; polite plants ; sharing with numbers and more...

For use in schools and libraries only. A collection of nursery rhymes with diagrams for accompanying finger plays.