If you're teaching poetry to kids in grades 3-6, you need good exemplar poems. . .and lots of them! But there's no need to spend hours and hours scouring the internet looking for poems. Poems for Kids is a HUGE collection of over 600 child-friendly exemplar poems, organized by poetry terms & poetic devices. This makes it easy to quickly SHOW your students poems containing: similes metaphors alliteration personification onomatopoeia hyperbole allusion creative license imagery refrain mood & tone rhyme schemes limericks haiku parody eye rhymes assonance consonance internal rhyme anaphora point of view and so much more! Can elementary students read classic "adult" poems? Yes! Students in the middle and upper elementary grades can and should be exposed to some of the classic "adult" poems written by Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and others. Many classic poems, written by a variety of poet voices, are featured in Poems for Kids. Students will continue to develop a deeper and more mature understanding of some poems over time. What if I've never taught poetry before? No problem! This is a very non-stuffy poetry collection which teaches by example (Over 600 of them!). Read and reread the poems. Experience the poems. Talk about the poems. Students can't help but learn about various aspects of poetry simply by reading and discussing poems within each category. Your students might even be inspired to write their own poems! This children's poetry anthology of short and "shortish" poems was developed not only to be child-friendly, but very teacher-friendly too. The poems are targeted for teaching, but the goal is to encourage an interest in (and perhaps even a love for) poetry. Learning about poetry should be fun and completely painless. Does this poetry collection support the Common Core? Yes! There are quite a few Common Core State Standards (CCSS) related to poetry in grades 3-6 and the appropriate Standards are conveniently listed within the anthology. What else should I know about Poems for Kids? Poems can be used to enrich many other curriculum areas, so to make locating poems convenient, this collection also includes a: Title Index Author Index First Lines Index With such a HUGE collection of over 600 poems, you'll want to be able to find poems . . . FAST! Be sure to check out the LOOK INSIDE feature of Poems for Kids.