Book excerpt: This series, The Poet and the Professor: Poems for Building Reading Skills, brings poetry into a whole new light for students in grades 1-8. Each book includes playful, original content that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages address key literacy skills. Each book includes an Audio CD of the poems that can be used to support fluency and comprehension. Also included is an interactive whiteboard-compatible Resource CD that can be used to further support literacy skills.