Contains sixty original poems and hands-on activities for students in grades four through eight designed to improve students' reading comprehension, word study, and speaking and writing skills while learning social studies content. Features reader's theater scripts, word ladders, word sorts, rhyming riddles, and Greek and Latin roots among other literacy strategies.

"Levels 4-8"--Back cover. PO# FY23-0242. Includes an access code for supplemental material available online.

Strategies for building fluency -- Strategies for building vocabulary -- Strategies for word play -- Content-based strategies -- Poems about the 50 United States -- Poems about American history -- Poems about ancient civilizations.