Pass The Poems, Please
By Jane Baskwill
Pass the poems pleas
Pile them on my plate
Put them right in front of
me
For I can hardly wait
To take each tangy word
To try each tasty rhyme
And when I've tried them once
or twice
I'll try them one more time:
So pass the poems please
They just won't leave my head
I have to have more poems
Before I go to bed.
Read
By Ann Turner
Do you remember
learning to read?
That book full of squiggles
like ants, escaped.
the teacher's big thumb
on the page,
your heart beating inside
afraid that all you'd ever
see
was ants---
Then a word popped out.
"See," and another, "cat,"
and my finger on teacher's
we read "I see cat."
I ran around the room
so happy I saw words
instead of ants.
Now That I Can Read
Author Unknown
I used to need somebody
To sit and read to me.
I'd look at every page they
read
And listen carefully.
But now that I am in first
grade,
I'm filling up a shelf
With stories, poems, and other
books
That I can read myself.
Read to me riddles and read
to me rhymes
Read to me stories of magical
times
Read to me tales about castles
and kings
Read to me stories of fabulous
things
Read to me pirates and read
to me knights
Read to me dragons and dragon-book
fights
Read to me spaceships and cowboys
and then
When you are finished- please
read them again.
Now That I Can Read
I used to need somebody
To sit and read to me.
I'd look at every page they
read
And listen carefully.
But now that I am in first
grade,
I'm filling up a shelf
With stories, poems, and other
books
That I can read myself.
Books
I like books
I really do -
Books with stories
And pictures, too.
Books of birds
And things that grow
Books of people
We should know.
Books of animals
And places, too,
I like books
Funny Words
English has some funny words
They give my mind the jitters
They sound the same to you
and me,
But are spelled with different
letters.
There's see and sea
And be and bee
It's terrible confusing!
There's new and knew
And through and threw.
It's really not amusing!
There's deer and dear
And here and hear.
It's horribly disturbing!
There's there and their
And bare and bear.
It's really most perturbing!
Read to me
Jane Yolen
Read to me riddles and read
to me rhymes
Read to me stories of magical
times
Read to me tales about castles
and kings
Read to me stories of fabulous
things
Read to me pirates and read
to me knights
Read to me dragons and dragon-book
fights
Read to me spaceships and cowboys
and then
When you are finished- please
read them again.
A Book Speaks
When
you drop me on the floor
I
get stepped on - my sides are sore;
Torn-out
pages make me groan;
I
feel dizzy if I'm thrown;
Every
mark and every stain
On
my covers gives me pain;
Please
don't bend me, if you do
I
don't want to talk to you;
But
we will both be friends together,
If
you protect me from the weather
And
keep me clean so that I look
A
tidy, neat and happy book.
Look in a Book
Look
in
a book
and
you will see
words
and
magic
and
mystery.
Look
in
a book
and
you will find
sense
and
nonsense
of
every kind.
Look
in
a book
and
you will know
all
the
things
that
can help you grow.
Ivy
O. Eastwick
Books
I like
books
I
really do -
Books
with stories
And
pictures, too.
Books
of birds
And
things that grow
Books
of people
We
should know.
Books
of animals
And
places, too,
I
like books
I
really do!
In a Story Book
At
night when sunshine goes away,
And
it's too dark for me to play,
I
like to come inside, and look
For
new friends in a story book.
Now That I Can Read
I used
to need somebody
To
sit and read to me.
I'd
look at every page they read
And
listen carefully.
But
now that I am in first grade,
I'm
filling up a shelf
With
stories, poems, and other books
That
I can read myself.
Reading
A story
is a special thing
The
ones that I have read
They
do not stay inside the books
They
stay inside my head.
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