Some concepts taught and skills readily reinforced through poems daily:
•love of poetry and language •increase memory skills •develop concepts •rhyme scheme •rhyming words •word families •endings •contractions •antonyms/synonyms/homonyms •little words within big words • vowel sounds • figurative language (metaphors & similes) •parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.) •identifying facts (especially in Meish Goldish's poems!) •type of poem (couplet, etc.) •handwriting lessons •alliteration •quotation marks •vocabulary •sequence •counting skills •dictionary & thesaurus use •poet studies

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Pirate Wind by Mary Jane Carr
Pirate Wind The autumn wind's a pirate,   Blustering in from sea; With a rollicking song, he sweeps along,   Swaggering boist'rously. His skin is weather-beaten;   He wears a yellow sash, With a handkerchief red about his head.   And a bristling black mustache. He laughs as he storms the country,   A loud laugh and a bold; And the trees all quake and shiver and shake,   As he robs them of their gold. The autumn wind's a pirate,   Pillaging just for fun; He'll snatch your hat as quick as that,   And laugh to see you run! Mary Jane Carr

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