101 Sight Word Poems for Emergent Readers and ESL Students Grades K-2. 101 Sight Word Poems for Emergent Readers and ESL Students by Betsy Franco. The poems in this personal poetry collection have been carefully crafted to meet the specific needs of emergent readers and ESL students who are learning sight words. - Title 1 ApprovedThe first 100 sight words are introduced and interwoven throughout the collection. Patterned, repetitive poetry is used throughout to encourage and give confidence to the emergent reader. The advantage of poetry is that students can see the pattern right before their eyes. They don't have to flip the page of a book, which can interrupt the visual pattern for the reader who is first learning. The student poem pages make it easy for students to create their own personal poetry collections. To save you time for group and center work we've provided strips that fit into the Desktop Pocket Chart, and also included instructions for enlarging the poems for use as poetry mini-posters. Excellent learning materials for Emergent Readers and ESL Students. A Teaching Resource Center original publication by author Betsy Franco.