For every student who's ever worried about spending a lifetime in the third grade and for every teacher who's faced a class where nobody remembered to bring milk money, these 38 poems capture the excitement, challenge, heartbreak, and wonder of life in elementary school. Through her fresh, lively word pictures, Dakos manages to find surprises in every corner of the school.
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Kalli Dakos is an elementary school reading specialist who has written many books,including Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll, illustrated by JoAnn Adinolfi, and two illustrated by G. Brian Karas: Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! More Poems About School and the Children's Choice Award-winning book If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School. Kalli visits schools all over the United States and Canada to talk to students. She also gives teacher workshops. She lives in Ottowa, Canada ,and Sterling, Virginia. You can learn more about Kalli at www.kallidakos.com.
G. Brian Karas has illustrated many children's books, including Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming, Incredible Me by Kathi Appelt, and the High-Rise Private Eyes series by Cynthia Rylant.
G. Brian Karas has illustrated many children's books, including Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming, Incredible Me by Kathi Appelt, and the High-Rise Private Eyes series by Cynthia Rylant.
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If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand,
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This review is from: If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School (Aladdin Poetry) (Paperback)
This book, so acurately subtitled "Poems About School," is a hit with students and teachers alike. Ms Dakos takes everyday elementary school situations and problems, and -- through her poetry-- manages to pinpoint the goings on in every classroom in America using humor and sensitivity. The student with the messiest desk, the boy who cries at the drop of a hat, the new kid who hates math, the child who comes to class with more alibis than homework assignments, the children who just can't follow the rules, are all members of the class in Ms Dakos' first book, "If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand-- Poems About School." This is truly a "class" anthology!
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This wonderful book of elementary school life poems was a recommended summer reading for my 5th grader. I thank the one who recommended it. She loves it. I recommend it for all ages...I love it too and I'm a few decades past the 5th grade. Get this one for your child and he/she will thank you with their pleasure of the book and their reading to you.
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Still my favorite books of poems!,
This review is from: If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School (Aladdin Poetry) (Paperback)
I remember finding this gem in my Elementary School Library back in the 2nd grade. These are still my favorite poems of all time! I read every single one of them so many times that I still have most of them memorized, and I'm in college now! These are poems that young kids can relate to and have a lot of fun with. One of my favorite ones to act out was the Mighty Eye!! My friends and I would have giggle fits in the library giving each other... the Mighty Eye!!! Definitely one of the most fun books for kids, and it got me hooked on poetry for life! I even find reading Shakespeare to be fun, all because of my fond memories of this little book of poems. So if you want your son or daughter to never fear poetry again, start with this book and have tons of fun!
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- Pass the Poetry, Please! by Lee Bennett Hopkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pass the Poetry, Please! by Lee Bennett Hopkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 4 - 6 (J-B Ed: Ready-to-Use Activities) by Ruth Weltmann Begun on page 60
- Let's Write (Grades K-2) by Nancy Areglado in Back Matter
- Valerie & Walter's Best Books for Children 2nd Ed: A Lively, Opinionated Guide (Valerie & Walter's Best Books for Children: A Lively,) by Walter M. Mayes in Index
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