Reminder: PoetryTagTime is the first ever electronic-only poetry anthology of new poems by top poets for children. You can purchase the book for 99 cents at Amazon and read it on your Kindle or through the downloadable Kindle platform for your computer, cell phone, etc.
Previously: Betsy Franco
Next up: DOUGLAS FLORIAN
Setting the Stage: Remind the children of the previous discussion about crows and their habits and behaviors. Create a chart listing attributes of crows on the left side and add a second column to list the attributes of doves on the right. (Look these up together, if needed.) Discuss the similarities and differences.
Poetry Performance: Divide the big group into two parallel groups, one each to read one line of Douglas Florian’s poem, “Dove.” Then reverse the groups to read again.
Just for Fun: Florian’s poem is a “definition” poem-- in only two lines. Lead the kids in looking for other defining “______ is” poems. Or work together to reverse things and write a poem as a group about defining the crow. "A crow is… "
Poem Links: Here are key words that connect this poem with other poems in the PoetryTagTime collection:
Birds
Snow
Crow
Humor
Color
Buy the book now, so you can share each poem along with the ideas and activities that follow here.
Next up for PoetryTagTime: Helen Frost
Posting (not poem) by Sylvia M. Vardell © 2011. All rights reserved.
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