The Poetry Friday Anthology offers a set of 36 poems for each grade level, K-5 (a poem-a-week for the 9 months of the typical school year). Drawing on decades of experience in classrooms all over the world as well as volumes of academic research and writing, this book presents activities that are poem-specific, skill-based, developmentally appropriate for each weekly poem and that connect to the Common Core standards for poetry instruction. The Poetry Friday Anthology makes it easy for you to take five minutes every Friday to share a poem, connecting it with children's lives and capitalizing on a teachable moment. NOTE: This is the K-5 Common Core edition; there is also a K-5 TEKS version (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) as well as middle school versions for grades 6-8. Other books in the series include The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science and The Poetry of Science, which support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (bilingual Spanish). For more info on this and other books in The Poetry Friday Anthology series and Poetry Friday Power Book series, please visit PomeloBooks.com.