Come along with educator and writer Judy Brim as she shows you a world full of frantic animal antics, passels of pigs, and home-hopping gnomes!
While each poem is bright and engaging, they are all part of a larger purpose. Every poem in this unique collection will help intermediate readers and English language learners understand a new phonetic sound and apply it to their own communication. By encountering several words with different spellings of the same sound, like the short /a/ sound in "frantic animal antics," readers will gain the confidence to pick them out in other books and practice them aloud.
Brim's thirty poems include everything from the common vowel sounds to tricky silent letters (bouquet, thumb) that can trip up any reader. While parents are encouraged to help their children through the book, a sample lesson plan at the beginning of the collection demonstrates its applications in a classroom setting.
In addition to common English sounds, Brim also includes poems about idioms, homophones, and important new vocabulary words. By reading these wonderful works and playing the games Brim includes at the end of her collection, readers can have fun while practicing important reading and spelling skills.
About the Author: Judy Brim has spent over thirty years as an educator, teaching at the K-12 level and in special education, where she focused on struggling readers and English language learners. Brim's work has taken her to many places in the United States and abroad, including Arizona, New Jersey, California, and Germany. While teaching special education in Germany, she was officially named as an Outstanding Teacher with the Department of Defense Overseas School System.
Brim received her bachelor's degree in early childhood education from the University of Arizona and her master's degree in special education from Arizona State University. She currently lives in Sacramento, California, where she received an "Above and Beyond" award in 2010. Brim has recently retired but continues educating and entertaining children through her writing. In her free time, Brim enjoys cycling and kayaking.
