Plum Gum and Other Chunk Poems: Teacher Tested Kid Approved Poems for Building Fluency Through Phonics

By Adele Tolley Wilson and Jean Heideman Jones

Plum Gum and Other Chunk Poems
is an entertaining book of poetry written by a teacher for the purpose of
building fluency in young readers.

•Kids love to read the poems because they are funny and written for
a child’s sense of humor.

•Teachers love the poems because each one is written to emphasize a
specific phonics chunk.

•Parents love the poems because their children become better
readers.

Plum Gum and Other Chunk Poems
is a must have book for every school library, every reading teacher, every
parent who wants to help their child gain reading success, and every child who
is discovering the joys of reading.  The
clever illustrations add to the enjoyment and make it the perfect book for
young readers.

“Adele Tolley
Wilson has captured the sounds and images of language in a playful and
entertaining new poetry collection--I have witnessed requests from whole classes
of young children to read Plum Gum
poems again and again . . .”

D. Ray Reutzel,
Emma Eccles Jones Professor of Early Childhood Education

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 10, 2004
• ISBN: 9781414054421

Adele Tolley Wilson

Adele Tolley Wilson discovered the joys of writing as a freshman in college when she was asked to write a song to introduce the girls in her dorm. When the audience loved it, she realized the power of words and has been hooked on writing ever since. Adele graduated from BYU in Elementary Education and taught for 25 years. Teaching provided her with numerous opportunities to write programs, scripts, tributes, stories, songs and poems. She wrote Plum Gum for a colleague who couldn't find kid friendly poems with enough phonics chunks in them. The poems became an instant success with both teachers and students and are being used in classrooms throughout the state. Adele was born in Whitefish, Montana and was raised in Provo, Utah and Grand Junction, Colorado. Her hobbies include storytelling, music, reading and thinking puzzles. Her greatest source of joy is her family. She is the mother of four...Audrey, Brett, Laura, and Russell Giles. She is married to Craig Wilson, and they currently reside in Washington, Utah. About the Illustrator Jean Heideman Jones has been drawing from the time she was a small child. Art has always fascinated her, and she quickly discovered she had the ability to capture ideas on paper. She was raised in Toquerville, Utah and graduated from BYU in Elementary Education. She has taught art lessons through the gifted and talented program in local schools and now teaches private art lessons in her home. Jean enjoys sewing, cooking and reading. She spends most of her time being a full time Mom, and has a steady diet of PTA. Her four children...April, Amber, Ryan and Amanda think she is wonderful. She is married to Donald Jones and they currently reside in St. George, Utah.

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Plum Gum

and Other Chunk Poems

Teacher tested, kid approved poems

for building fluency through phonics

Written by Adele Tolley Wilson

Illustrated by Jean Heideman Jones

© 2004 by Adele Tolley Wilson. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced. Copying of the poems

and pictures in this book is prohibited. They may not be reproduced

in any form by photographic, electronic mechanical or any other method,

including information storage and retrieval without written permission.

Limited permission is granted to the purchaser to make charts of the

poems for use in his/her own personal classroom for educational purposes.

Please write the author’s name on each chart. These poems are not to be

shared without written permission from the author.

ISBN: 978-1-4759-1892-2 (ebk)

ISBN: 1-4140-5441-6 (Paperback)

ISBN: 1-4140-5443-2 (Dust Jacket)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2004090494

CONTENTS

Foreword

Dr. Crab

The Race

Snack Attack

Jack

Parade

Hunting

Sail Boat

Brain Strain

Air

Haircut

Birthday Cake

Jake the Snake

At the Mall

Yams

I Am

The Same Name

Salesman

Dance to France

The Tank

Nature’s Rap

Purple Ape

Stranger

Skateboard

Brat

Scratch

Drawing

Play Day

Squeak, Squeak

Near and Dear

Peas

I Can Feel the Beat

Red

Butterfly and Bumblebee

Spelling Bee

Weed

Don’t Count Sheep

Feet

Show and Tell

Bargain

The Test

Perfect Pet

Danny

Dinner

Ick, That’s Sick

Ocean Tide

Christmas Eve

Night Light

Dill Pickle

Ducklings on a Hill

Uncle Jim Swims

Green Slime

Skin

Porcupine Spine

Ninety-Nine

I Can Think

Polly Plip Plop

Drip-Zip-Skip

Squirrel

Fish

Winners are not Bullies

Itchy Stitches

Moving to the Jive

Snow

Poor Old Joan

Slob

Brock’s Pocket

Polliwog

Jokes

Gold is Cold

Morris Mole

I Know a Song

Library Books

The Zoo

Embarrassed

Green Apples

Flower Pot

Rock Hound

Scouts

How Do You Know

Night Prowl

Lovely Lucy

Family Vacation

Unlucky Duck

Laura’s Purse

Hug-Don’t Slug

Pug

Plum Gum

Tree Stump

Trunk of Treasures

Funny Money

Hiccup

Fur and Purr

In the