An easy-to-use resource for teaching essential reading skills to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. This book accompanies i-read 4 CD-ROM. It can be used alongside the CD-ROM for group and independent reading away from the interactive whiteboard. Series Editor Pie Corbett has specially selected poems for i-read written by a host of well-loved poets, to ensure that this unique collection provides children with a vibrant read. The collection includes a selection of poems with a common theme, poems from different times and cultures, haiku and cinquains.

 

This book features in the following series: I Read, I-Read .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Cambridge University Press .

Pie Corbett is a freelance writer and poet. He was worked as an English Inspector in Gloucestershire, as an OFSTED Inspector, and has run training nationally for the NLS.

This book has the following chapters: Poems with a common theme: The Bully Asleep, John Walsh; Never Can Tell, Michael Lowe; Poem for a New Teacher, Nick Toczek; The Inspector Calls, Gervase Phinn; I Hear . , Berlie Doherty; Teacher, Paul Cookson; Mr Cartwright's Counting Rhyme, John Mole; Poems from a different culture / time: The Mere, translated by Michael Rosen; Glorious It Is, traditional Inuit; What is Snow?, Moira Andrew; The Magnificent Bull, traditional Dinka tribe (Sudan); The Locust, traditional Madagascar; A Smuggler's Song, Rudyard Kipling; Poems in different forms: Haiku Triptych, James Carter; Goodnight, Pamela Gillian; Triad, Adelaide Crapsey; The Warning, Adelaide Crapsey; Magic, Judith Nicholls; The Ballad of Killer Kincaid, Rose Impey; Ghost Train, Brian Moses; Hello Sir, traditional adapted by Michaela Morgan; A Visit to Yalding, John Coldwell; Waiting, Sue Cowling; A Chance in France, Pie Corbett.