tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post6790583508094120477..comments2024-03-19T05:26:04.770-04:00Comments on A Year of Reading: Poetry Friday -- 15 Words or Less PoemsMary Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078793537148794310noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-76095272798995082812008-04-12T00:36:00.000-04:002008-04-12T00:36:00.000-04:00Thank you for this wonderful idea! I used it with ...Thank you for this wonderful idea! I used it with my seventh graders today and was completely blown away with what they came up with! I actually got chills and tears in my eyes more than once. Now I just need to get permission to post them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07485120700037085384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-61714134810435141012008-04-05T13:17:00.000-04:002008-04-05T13:17:00.000-04:00Mary Lee,Have a blast writing poetry in your class...Mary Lee,<BR/><BR/>Have a blast writing poetry in your classroom. I think it's great that you're writing poems along with your kids.Elaine Magliarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829330276633865868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-48134791372615612162008-04-05T08:49:00.000-04:002008-04-05T08:49:00.000-04:00You sound like the coolest of cool teachers. I'd l...You sound like the coolest of cool teachers. I'd love to have been in your class! A great assignment with great results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-41449278411135921472008-04-05T08:29:00.000-04:002008-04-05T08:29:00.000-04:00Katie -- First graders could ABSOLUTELY do this!Mm...Katie -- First graders could ABSOLUTELY do this!<BR/><BR/>Mme T -- IF NOT FOR THE CAT will be one of our haiku mentor texts next week!<BR/><BR/>Sara -- The kids loved coming in each morning and looking at the tv screen to see what the picture of the day would be!<BR/><BR/>The thing that was most surprising about this first foray into poetry was how many of the students wanted to use rhyme! They absolutely know (from their reading and from my example 15 Word Poem) that poems don't have to rhyme. Maybe rhyme is the gatekeeper of poetry -- you have to rhyme, struggle with rhyme, fail to rhyme before you can walk through into free verse.<BR/><BR/>We'll see how they do with haiku!Mary Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078793537148794310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-29783326169959929832008-04-05T08:04:00.000-04:002008-04-05T08:04:00.000-04:00Cool! I'm so glad y'all had fun! We wrote group po...Cool! I'm so glad y'all had fun! We wrote group poems in response to images at my school visit last week, and the kids had a blast, too. Thanks for sharing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-53197097404022597812008-04-04T17:28:00.000-04:002008-04-04T17:28:00.000-04:00Can't wait for the testing to be over and non-fict...Can't wait for the testing to be over and non-fiction unit so I can get down to POETRY. Have you read your students any "If not for the cat?" by Prelutsky. 17 haiku poems about the nature of animals and FABULOUS illustrations!MmeThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01943569473245835452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-11662881054908067242008-04-04T17:19:00.000-04:002008-04-04T17:19:00.000-04:00What fun...I love this and am thinking about first...What fun...I love this and am thinking about first graders would love to see these images and create poetry. Loved hearing your creative kiddos.Katie Dicesarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04267193046510544304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-31626388857795327322008-04-04T13:12:00.000-04:002008-04-04T13:12:00.000-04:00Great project, with good photo prompts. Looking fo...Great project, with good photo prompts. Looking forward to seeing more poems :)!jamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859083373087448194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-68534977178680442812008-04-04T12:30:00.000-04:002008-04-04T12:30:00.000-04:00I love, love, the first and second one. What a gre...I love, love, the first and second one. What a great idea. I may do poetry with the whole school this month.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-8855017183721807842008-04-04T12:07:00.000-04:002008-04-04T12:07:00.000-04:00How lucky your students are! I totally believe in ...How lucky your students are! I totally believe in visual prompts. It's so unfair to expect kids to just write. Writing is, in so many ways, a response to noticing the world, and I'm so glad your kids are seeing "ys" and "rockets" and even "beans"!Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-10571793266477462082008-04-04T09:16:00.000-04:002008-04-04T09:16:00.000-04:00These are wonderful! What a great project.FYI I ha...These are wonderful! What a great project.<BR/><BR/>FYI I had a lot of trouble getting here from your comment at Becky's Book Reviews. I had to open my bloglines and then this post from there because I kept getting a "blog not found" error. Don't know why...Andromeda Jazmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355192738014962965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429083.post-40948795164543224432008-04-04T08:58:00.000-04:002008-04-04T08:58:00.000-04:00Ooh, the moon IS very close, and gorgeous! I enlar...Ooh, the moon IS very close, and gorgeous! I enlarged the picture, and sure enough: an upside down y!tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.com