Poetry opens up the imaginations and hearts of young readers.  It helps them to look at their world in a new way.  Poetry is also the perfect way to teach children about the workings of language.  Poetry as it is read aloud, helps to build phonemic awareness and understanding of complicated literary elements, such as metaphor and analogy.

Good readers have  images of what they read in their heads.  It runs like a movie.  Good readers can "see" what is happening as they read.  This class will...