Poetry Friday - A Kick in the Head

Today, Poetry Friday is hosted by Jone MacCullough (MsMac) on her blog, Check It Out!  Thanks, Jone for rounding up all the posts today! 

Title: A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms 
Author: Paul B. Janeczko 
Illustrator: Chris Raschka 
Publisher: Candlewick 
Publication Date: March, 2005
Genre/Format: Non-Fiction/Poetry/Picture Book 
GoodReads Summary: From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.
What I Think: I listed this as non-fiction because this book shares examples of several different poetic forms. There are a range of poems in the book, but I think most of them are fictional. If you are looking for explanations or examples of different kinds of poems, this is a great resource for introducing different forms. After students get some experience with the poetry types, they can write their own, and put them together into a collection of the different poem forms.  
Read Together: Grades 2 - 12
Read Alone: Grades 2 - 12
Read With:  I am the Book by Lee Bennett Hopkins, BookSpeak! by Lauda Purdie Salas, I Haiku You by Betsy Snyder
Snatch of Text:  

"Paper Dreams" 

by Bobbi Katz

Neatly stacked in separate piles,

we wait

for the shape of a stencil - 

the press of a pencil

the

snip               snip

snip

of silver scissors.

We wait 

to become

lacy snowflakes

fat santas

pointy Christmas trees...

White, red, green -

now we are just paper.

We wait quietly on a dark shelf,

dreaming

quietly

dreaming

of becoming...

Reading Strategies to Practice: Analyzing for Features of Poetry, Activating Background Knowledge, Making Connections,  
Writing Strategies to Practice: Descriptive, Rhyme, Rhythm, Alliteration, Personification, Anaphora 
Writing Prompts: Choose one of the forms of poetry and write your own poem that fits to the poem.  
Topics Covered: Animals, Writing, Poetry 

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