An easy-to-use resource for teaching essential reading skills to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. This book accompanies the i-read Year 5 CD-ROM. It can be used alongside the CD-ROM for group or 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 and teachers with a vibrant read. The poetry collection includes the work of significant poets, longer classic and narrative poetry, and performance poetry.

 

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. This reading scheme has multiple levels.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 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: Significant poets: Dragonbirth, Judith Nicholls; Dragon Night, Judith Nicholls; Green Man, Blue Man, Charles Causley; My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear, Charles Causley; Pheasant, Gina Douthwaite; Island Dinosaur, Gina Douthwaite; Tiger Shadows, Brian Patten; Didgeridoo, Roger McGough; The Magical Mouse, Kenneth Patchen; Longer classic and narrative poetry: The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes; Performance poetry: We Are Not Alone, Paul Cookson; Who's There, Jan Dean; Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll; Howl, Jan Dean; In the Time of the Wolf, Gillian Clarke; Dazzledance, John Rice; Benediction, James Berry.