Silverstein, S. (2004). Where The Sidewalk Ends: 30th Anniversary Special Edition. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
Brief Annotation: Shel Silverstein delights readers with his eclectic collection of rhyming poems that are brimming with humor and substance. Children can relate to poems about trying to sell annoying siblings, pretending to be sick to avoid school, or trading in four nickels for five pennies. In addition to this, Readers will enjoy being whisked away to whimsical lands of flying shoes, hippopotamus sandwiches, giants, and unicorns. Silverstein also includes poems that humorously caution readers against watching too much T.V., neglecting to take out the trash, or talking with a mouth full of food.
Genre: Poetry
Grade Level: 2-6
Readers who will like this: Readers who have a sense of humor, enjoy poetry, and who like to use their imagination. Readers who can benefit by relating to or learning from individual poems.
Response/Rating (1-4): 4. This collection of poetry is creative, funny, inspiring, and insightful.
One question you would ask before a read aloud:How does this poem make you feel? Have you ever felt like the character in the poem? What message is the author trying to send to the reader?
Brief Annotation: Shel Silverstein delights readers with his eclectic collection of rhyming poems that are brimming with humor and substance. Children can relate to poems about trying to sell annoying siblings, pretending to be sick to avoid school, or trading in four nickels for five pennies. In addition to this, Readers will enjoy being whisked away to whimsical lands of flying shoes, hippopotamus sandwiches, giants, and unicorns. Silverstein also includes poems that humorously caution readers against watching too much T.V., neglecting to take out the trash, or talking with a mouth full of food.
Genre: Poetry
Grade Level: 2-6
Readers who will like this: Readers who have a sense of humor, enjoy poetry, and who like to use their imagination. Readers who can benefit by relating to or learning from individual poems.
Response/Rating (1-4): 4. This collection of poetry is creative, funny, inspiring, and insightful.
One question you would ask before a read aloud:How does this poem make you feel? Have you ever felt like the character in the poem? What message is the author trying to send to the reader?
Reading Strategies Connection: Shared Reading (Tompkins, 2009). In this strategy, the teacher will introduce the story or poem, read it to students, modeling fluency, talk about the story with the students, then have them read the story or poem independently. This gives the students a chance to work on fluent reading and comprehension. The poems in this book give teachers a wide variety of poems to choose from that vary in content and length depending on what the students are ready for. During the conversations, the teacher can explore both the words and the ideas presented in the poem. Because the poems are entertaining, humorous and short, it will retain student interest.
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