Purposeful Poetry with Dictation was born from my love for classical children's literature. This curriculum was created to fill a simple need: I wanted a program that allowed magnificent poetry and classical literature to be made available to be studied, understood, and loved by children.

There are two sections in this curriculum; Purposeful Dictation and Purposeful Poetry. The dictation section includes passages from some of the most loved classical stories. The poetry section includes 36 of my favorite poems, vocabulary words, questions to think about, and more. I was delighted when I found the quirky illustrations by Iveta Vaicule, and I think that they compliment the program beautifully. I hope that they evoke as much discussion and enjoyment in your kids as they did in mine! 
 
 
 
Poem List:
1. The Spider and the Fly - Mary Howitt
2. The Fairies - William Allingham
3. Old Father William – Lewis Carroll 
4. The Walrus and the Carpenter – Lewis Carroll 
5. Jim Who Ran Away from His Nurse and was Eaten by a Lion – H. Belloc 
6. Jabberwocky – Lewis Carroll 
7. Daffodils – William Wordsworth 
8. The Owl and the Pussycat – Edward Lear 
9. Who Has Seen the Wind – Christina Rossetti 
10. Theme in Yellow – Carl Sandberg 
11. How Doth the Little Crocodile? Lewis Carroll 
12. Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably – H. Belloc 
13. Daddy Fell into the Pond – Alfred Noyes 
14. The Land of Nod – Robert Louis Stevenson 
15. Sick – Shel Silverstein 
16. Snowball – Shel Silverstein 
17. Waiting at the Window – AA Milne 
18. Being Brave at Night – Edgar Guest 
19. The Rainbow – Christina Rosetti 
20. The Moon – Robert Lewis Stevenson 
21. Story Telling – Edgar Guest 
22. Friends – Abbie Farwell Brown 
23. The Elf and the Dormouse – Louis Untermeyer 
24. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me – Maya Angelou 
25. The Swing – Robert Lewis Stevenson 
26. I’d Love to be A Fairy’s Child – Robert Graves 
27. My Shadow – Robert Louis Stevenson 
28. The Good Little Boy – Edgar Guest 
29. Lester – Shel Silverstein 
30. Underface – Shel Silverstein 
31. Rathers – Mary Hunter Austin 
32. The Fisherman – Abbie Farwell Brown 
33. Caterpillar – Christian Rossetti 
34. The Eagle – Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
35. Lilly-Bell and Thistledown Song – Louisa May Alcott 
36. The Road Goes Ever On – JRR Tolkien
 
Dictation selections from: 
1. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 
2. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 
3. Little Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder 
4. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 
5. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell 
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 
7. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 
8. Peter Pan – JM Barrie 
9. Charlotte’s Web – EB White 
10. The Snow Queen – Hans Christian Anderson 
11. Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll 
12. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 
13. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 
14. Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi 
15. Mary Poppins – PL Travers 
16. Heidi – Johanna Spyri 
17. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 
18. Stewart Little – EB White 
19. Little Men – Louisa May Alcott 
20. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett 
21. The Selfish Giant – Oscar Wilde 
22. Aesop’s Fables 
23. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly 
24. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 
25. Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder 
26. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis 
27. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 
28. Old Yeller – Fred Gipson 
29. Pollyanna – Eleanor H Porter
30. Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter 
31. A Bear Called Paddington – Michale Bond 
32. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 
33. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving 
34. The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Anderson 
35. Thumbelina – Hans Christian Anderson 
36. The Ugly Duckling – Hans Christian Anderson 
37. The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson