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[psvid] “Sack Lunch” (Charles Waters)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Hey, don’t forget this Thursday is Poem in Your Pocket Day! Here are four short poems from The Poetry Friday Anthology your students can use, and here are loads more ideas for the day. Today’s poem comes from?The Poetry Friday Anthology (Common […]

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[psvid] “The Do Kind” (Janet Wong)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Hey, don’t forget this Thursday is Poem in Your Pocket Day! Here are four short poems from The Poetry Friday Anthology your students can use, and here are loads more ideas for the day. Today’s poem comes from?The Poetry Friday Anthology (Common […]

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[psvid] “School Supplies” (Kenn Nesbitt)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from?Revenge of the Lunch Ladies: The Hilarious Book of School Poetry?(Meadowbrook, 2007), by funny-poem guy Kenn?Nesbitt. As a mom who has taken the kids back-to-school shopping for many years, I could totally sympathize with the mom in this poem! […]

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[psvid] A Winter Haiku (Bob Raczka)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from GUYKU: A Year of Haiku for Boys?(Houghton Mifflin,?2010), by Bob Raczka. This fantastic book of haiku combines boys and nature to fantastic effect. I love that it’s a boy-friendly collection, but there’s definitely nothing here to exclude girls, […]

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[psvid] “Sing a Song of Cities” (Lee Bennett Hopkins)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from?City I Love (Abrams, 2009), by the person who has done more than anyone else to spread a love for and knowledge of children’s poetry. Not only is Lee Bennett Hopkins a huge poetry advocate and an enormously prolific […]

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[psvid] “Kisses” (Robert Weinstock)

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For all you 15 Words or Less folks, your mission is to?watch the Poem Starter Video and take on its challenge in 15 Words or Less (but you only have to include your sound effect at least two times).? Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes […]

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[psvid] “Signing on a Crew” (David L. Harrison)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from Pirates?(Wordsong, 2012), by David L. Harrison. This collection is probably one of my top five picture book poetry collections of all times. It is full of drama and conflict and action–and beautiful poetry, to boot. These are not […]

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[psvid] “Oak” (Douglas Florian)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from Poetrees?(Beach Lane Books, 2010), by poet and artist?Douglas Florian. One of the best rejection letters I ever got (I know–writers are weird) was from an editor who said my animal poems full of wordplay felt too much like […]

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[psvid] “The Chambered Nautilus” (David Elliott)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from In the Sea?(Candlewick, 2012), by David Elliott. I love his?trilogy of animal poetry collections,all illustrated by Holly Meade. They are just gorgeous in both word and art.?I have a strong pull to the ocean, maybe because I grew […]

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[psvid] “Coward Crocodile” (Renee LaTulippe)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party. Today’s poem comes from??Lizard Lou: A Collection of Rhymes Old and New (All About Reading Level Pre-1, Volume 2)?(All About Learning, 2011), by the talented and theatrical Renee LaTulippe of No Water River.?Renee is the person who first invited me to make […]

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