About Adele

Adele Tolley Wilson is a retired elementary teacher who later worked for Dixie State University and Utah Tech University as a Clinical Supervisor for student teachers seeking degrees in Elementary Education.  Teaching provided her with numerous opportunities to write programs, scripts, tributes, stories, songs and poems.  She recognized the need for fun ways to teach children concepts, and began writing books to help kids learn.

Plum Gum and Other Chunk Poems was written for a First Grade teacher who had difficulty finding kid friendly poems based on the phonics chunks. It contains entertaining poems to help young readers build fluency.  The book is indexed alphabetically according to word families to aid teachers in finding the perfect poem for their lessons.

Mrs. Vet’s Alphabet is a another volume of Chunk Poems and word family poems.   The poems are fun and kids enjoy them so much they forget they are building reading skills.

Poems for Idioms was written for teachers to aid in teaching their students to understand idioms. An idiom is an expression that we commonly use that has a meaning not deducible from the individual words.  (Example- It’s raining cats and dogs)  Each poem explains the meaning in just four lines.

What’s Matter and Other Content Poems was written to help students pass the end of level science tests.  Each poem reinforces science concepts and key vocabulary to help students retain information.

Adele‘s hobbies include writing, storytelling, music, reading, and thinking puzzles.  Her greatest source of joy is her family.  She is a mother and grandmother and lives with her husband, in Washington, Utah.