There’s A Gnome in my Home: Phonetically-based Poems to Engage Struggling Readers and English Language Learners

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.