by Mary Lee Hahn, copyright 2010
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Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
Two PUBLIC SCHOOL teachers who read. A lot.
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Franki and Mary Lee are both teachers, and have been for more than 20 years.
Franki is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Beyond Leveled Books (Stenhouse), Still Learning to Read (Stenhouse), and Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop (Scholastic).
Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
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Blog Archive: Years and years of reading
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2010
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April
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- Poem #30--Looking Inside (and Poetry Friday)
- Poem #29--Newspaper Blackout Poem
- Poem #28--Book Spine Poem
- Poem #27--A Limerick for the Poem-A-Day Writers
- 2 new Poetry Books
- Poem #26--A Fib For Gregory K.
- Poem #25--A One-Word Poem
- Garage Band--Some Possibilities
- Poem #24--Coffee House Sonnet
- Poem #23--Where I'm From Poem (and Poetry Friday)
- Poem #22--Did Someone Say Only 30 More Days?
- FARM by Elisha Cooper
- Poem #21--Haiku Response to Literature
- Google Search Stories by Favorite Book Characters!
- The BEAUTIFUL STORIES OF LIFE by Cynthia Rylant
- Poem #20 Lightning Thief Metaphor Poems (and a tes...
- TRACKERS by Patrick Carman
- Poem #19--"If-You-Were" Metaphor Poems
- Apple Crisp is on the Menu Today at the Alphabet S...
- Moving Toward My Vision for the SMARTBoard in the ...
- Poem #18 Sunday Night Teacher Haiku
- State Test Simile Poem
- Poem #16--Google Search Story Poem
- Which of the Top Hundred Have YOU Read?
- 2 Books I Could Read a Million Times
- Poem #14--After the Concert
- The Children's Baking Book
- Poem #13--Definito
- Mirror Mirror by Marilyn Singer
- Poem #12--On the Way Home From School
- COUNTDOWN (The Sixties Trilogy)
- Poem #11 -- Sunday Night Inertia
- Poetry and the SMART Board--Part 2
- Poem #10 -- Life Lesson
- Poetry and the SMART Board
- Poem #9 -- More About Those Xs
- Poem #8 -- When Recess Duty Becomes a Blessing in ...
- Poem #7 Read Aloud Revelation--A Metaphor Poem
- Poem #6 -- REVERSO!
- Poem #5 -- Visitor
- KITCHENAID
- Poem #4 -- The Last Day of Spring Break
- Poem #3 -- Abecedarian Cupcake Lessons
- Poem #2 -- Learning
- Poem #1 -- Teaching
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April
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Hah! A Kick in the Head. Perfect final line :). These are such fun.
ReplyDeleteLove this. May have to try today,
ReplyDeleteGreat poem and great idea. I bet my 4th grade daughter would like to try this one. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is a clever idea!!! I bet your students would get a kick out of writing book spine poems.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome! So very creative. :)
ReplyDeleteHow fun, what a great idea!
ReplyDeleteOh you are so so clever! I'm totally going to try this when I'm in a classroom again.
ReplyDeleteSo creative! Love it... have to try it!
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Thanks for the inspiration, Mary Lee! I "wrote" my own book spine poem for Wild Rose Reader. It was fun.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea, I'm copying you!
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Danielle Buffardi
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I love this idea and have been turning it over in my head since I read it and saw your poem. Here's what I've tried so far:
ReplyDeletehttp://skyclassjoan.blogspot.com/2010/05/book-spine-poems.html