The purpose of Brain Verse: Poems and Activities That Build Literacy and Neural Connectivity is to offer teachers and parents a language-rich, sensory-driven set of experiences through which they can teach basic academic skills. A collection of 12 rhyming story-poems has been designed to be read aloud to young children and is followed with activities and lessons designed to build neural connections, especially those tied to the five components of literacy: phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.