{"id":4787,"date":"2013-04-04T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2021-08-14T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T01:42:35","slug":"poetry-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Reading poetry, writing poetry, poems across the curriculum, and poems in the movies\u2026yes, movies\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e98c8f0d3ba\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/#WRITING_AND_READING_POETRY_FICTION\" >WRITING AND READING POETRY: FICTION<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/2\/#WRITING_AND_READING_POETRY_HOW-TOS\" >WRITING AND READING POETRY: HOW-TOS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/3\/#POEMS_ACROSS_THE_CURRICULUM\" >POEMS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/3\/#POETRY_AND_LITERATURE\" >POETRY AND LITERATURE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/3\/#POETRY_AND_HISTORY\" >POETRY AND HISTORY<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/4\/#POETRY_AND_GEOGRAPHY\" >POETRY AND GEOGRAPHY<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/4\/#_POETRY_AND_SCIENCE\" >&nbsp;POETRY AND SCIENCE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/5\/#POETRY_AND_MATH\" >POETRY AND MATH<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/poetry-ii\/5\/#GAMES_PROJECTS_AND_POETRY_AT_THE_MOVIES\" >GAMES, PROJECTS, AND POETRY AT THE MOVIES<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"WRITING_AND_READING_POETRY_FICTION\"><\/span><b>WRITING AND READING POETRY: FICTION<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-cocuk-kitaplari-leo-lionni-90a5-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-cocuk-kitaplari-leo-lionni-90a5-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-cocuk-kitaplari-leo-lionni-90a5-830x1024.jpg 830w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-cocuk-kitaplari-leo-lionni-90a5-768x948.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-cocuk-kitaplari-leo-lionni-90a5.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Leo Lionni\u2019s <i>Frederick<\/i> (Dragonfly Books, 1972), the title character \u2013 an enchanting little field mouse \u2013 doesn\u2019t help the other mice lay in food for the winter; instead dreamy Frederick collects colors and words \u201cbecause winter is gray.\u201d In the bleak dead of winter, Frederick comes into his own, warming and cheering the other mice with his poetic descriptions of spring and summer. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/other-way-to-listen-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/other-way-to-listen-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/other-way-to-listen.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Byrd Baylor\u2019s <i>The Other Way to Listen<\/i> (Aladdin, 1997) is a poem about learning how to listen to the natural world. \u201cTeach me,\u201d a little girl says to a wise old man, and gently he explains that it\u2019s a matter of taking time, being quiet, and asking yourself hard questions. A good beginning for all poets. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fancy-nancy-poet-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fancy-nancy-poet-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fancy-nancy-poet.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Jane O\u2019Connor\u2019s <i>Fancy Nancy: Poet Extraordinaire<\/i> (HarperCollins, 2010), Nancy\u2019s class is studying poetry and Nancy \u2013 complete with toga costume and poetry-palace clubhouse \u2013 prepares to become a prize poet. It\u2019s a great book for poetry project ideas, among them conducting a poetry survey (Nancy\u2019s little sister likes \u201cDiddle, Diddle, Dumpling;\u201d her father likes \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind;\u201d her mother\u2019s pick is \u201cAnnabel Lee\u201d), making a paper \u201cpoet-tree,\u201d and creating a personal poetry anthology. For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bat-poet-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bat-poet-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bat-poet-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bat-poet-768x1116.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bat-poet.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Randall Jarrell\u2019s <i>The Bat-Poet<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1994) is the story of a little brown bat (\u201cthe color of coffee with cream in it\u201d) who loves the world of daytime and invents poems about all he sees and learns there \u2013 though ultimately, as winter comes, and he and his admiring friend, the chipmunk, prepare to hibernate, his final poem celebrates his familiar world of bats. A wonderful book about the true nature of poetry for ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/love-that-dog-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/love-that-dog-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/love-that-dog-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/love-that-dog-768x1180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/love-that-dog.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Sharon Creech\u2019s <i>Love That Dog<\/i> (Perfection Learning, 2003), Jack \u2013 a student of the incomparable Ms. Stretchberry in Room 105 \u2013 is, in spite of himself, learning to love poetry.&nbsp; The book \u2013 entirely written in free verse \u2013 begins with Jack\u2019s objections to all things poetic (\u201cI don\u2019t want to\/because boys\/don\u2019t write poetry.\/Girls do.\u201d), continues through his strictures on famous poets (\u201cI think Mr. Robert Frost\/has a little\/too\/much\/time\/on his\/hands\u201d), to his discovery of a poem by Walter Dean Myers (\u201cLove That Boy\u201d) that strikes a chord \u2013 and helps him deal with the heartbreaking loss of his yellow dog, Sky. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hate-that-cat-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hate-that-cat-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hate-that-cat-705x1024.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hate-that-cat-768x1116.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hate-that-cat.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In the sequel, <i>Hate That Cat<\/i> (HarperCollins, 2010), poetry helps Jack come to terms with his deaf mother and a particularly awful neighborhood cat. In both books, the poems used in Ms. Stretchberry\u2019s class appear in an appendix at the back.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seven-day-magic-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seven-day-magic-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seven-day-magic-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seven-day-magic-768x1143.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seven-day-magic-1033x1536.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seven-day-magic-1377x2048.jpg 1377w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seven-day-magic.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Edward Eager\u2019s <i>Seven-Day Magic<\/i> (Harcourt, 1999), John, Susan, Barnaby, Abbie, and Frederika check a mysterious red book out of the library, which plunges them into seven days of (often nearly disastrous) magical adventures. One of these nearly costs their father his job, though he\u2019s saved by Abbie, a poet (though she never shows her poems to anybody), with the help of a famous poet she encounters in the park. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pearl-verses-the-world-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pearl-verses-the-world-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pearl-verses-the-world.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Sally Murphy\u2019s <i>Pearl Verses the World<\/i> (Candlewick, 2011) \u2013 written in Pearl\u2019s voice in free verse &#8211; Pearl doesn\u2019t fit in at school: she is a group of one. Her teacher, Mrs. Bruff, wants the class to write poems that rhyme, but Pearl\u2019s don\u2019t (\u201cRhyme is okay sometimes\/but my poems don\u2019t rhyme\/and neither do I\u201d). At home, her beloved grandmother sometimes doesn\u2019t remember who Pearl and her mother are. When her grandmother dies, Pearl comes to terms with her death through a poem (\u201c\u2026She wasn\u2019t here\/For long enough\/But I am glad\/That she\/Was here\/At all\u201d) \u2013 and comes to learn that she can maintain her individuality while also becoming part of a group. And Mrs. Bruff admits that poems don\u2019t have to rhyme. A gentle book about difficult issues for ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/one-crazy-summer-book-cover-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/one-crazy-summer-book-cover-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/one-crazy-summer-book-cover-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/one-crazy-summer-book-cover-768x1143.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/one-crazy-summer-book-cover-1033x1536.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/one-crazy-summer-book-cover-1377x2048.jpg 1377w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/one-crazy-summer-book-cover.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Rita Williams-Garcia\u2019s <i>One Crazy Summer<\/i> (Amistad, 2011), set in the summer of 1968, eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonetta and Fern have been shipped to California to spend time with Cecile, the mother who abandoned them shortly after Fern\u2019s birth. Cecile is a poet who wants nothing to do with motherhood; in fact, she turns the girls out of the house for most of the day, sending them to a community camp run by the Black Panthers. It\u2019s a wonderful story about political activism, racial tension, family and freedom, understanding, and growing up \u2013 all culminating when the three girls recite one of Cecile\u2019s poems at a Black Panther rally in the park. A great read for ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/poet-x-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/poet-x-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/poet-x.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>This list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weareteachers.com\/best-novels-in-verse\/\">12 Terrific Novels in Verse<\/a> for middle-grade readers includes Elizabeth Acevedo\u2019s <em>The Poet X<\/em>, Thanhha Lai\u2019s <em>Inside Out and Back Again<\/em>, Jacqueline Woodson\u2019s <em>Brown Girl Dreaming<\/em>, and Kwame Alexander\u2019s <em>Booked<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/realm-of-possibility-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/realm-of-possibility-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/realm-of-possibility.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/7-ya-novels-in-verse-teens-wont-want-to-put-down\/\">YA Novels in Verse<\/a> includes such picks as David Levithan\u2019s <em>The Realm of Possibility<\/em>, Walter Dean Myers\u2019s <em>Street Love<\/em>, and Ron Koertge\u2019s <em>Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anthologist-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anthologist-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anthologist.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Poet Paul Chowder, the protagonist of Nicholson Baker\u2019s <i>The Anthologist<\/i> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2010) is struggling to write an introduction to an anthology of rhyming poems in the teeth of a string of troubles, among them the loss of his girlfriend. The book is stuffed with observations on the nature of poetry and stories about famous poets (and accounts of Chowder\u2019s fruitless attempts to clean his office and deal with the mouse who lives behind his stove). For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><!--nextpage--><\/h4>\n<h4><b>WRITING AND READING POETRY: HOW-TOS<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R-is-for-rhyme-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R-is-for-rhyme-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/R-is-for-rhyme.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Judy Young\u2019s <i>R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet<\/i> (Sleeping Bear Press, 2010), each letter of the alphabet stands for a different poetic form or feature, with an example and explanation. A, ACROSTIC, for example, features an acrostic poem (\u201cDrawing\u201d), and explains how the title determines the first letters of each line of the poem. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/surfeit-of-similes-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/surfeit-of-similes-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/surfeit-of-similes.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Norton Juster\u2019s <i>A Surfeit of Similes<\/i> (William Morrow, 1989) is a delightful rhyming celebration of (many) similes: \u201cAs pure as an angel\/As clever as zippers\/As awkward as crutches\/As friendly as slippers.\u201d Readers will never forget what a simile is. Or a surfeit. For all ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishes-lies-dream-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishes-lies-dream-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishes-lies-dream.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Kenneth Koch\u2019s <i>Wishes, Lies, and Dreams<\/i> (HarperPerennial, 1999) \u2013 subtitled \u201cTeaching Children to Write Poetry\u201d \u2013 is a wonderful and inspirational collection based on Koch\u2019s experiences with elementary-level students, crammed with teaching suggestions and examples of kids\u2019 work. Kids write poems based on wishes, dreams, and colors; write poems while listening to music; create poems on the themes of \u201cI used to\/But now\u2026\u201d and \u201cI seem to be\/But I really am\u2026\u201d And much more. For ages 6-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rose-where-did-you-get.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"280\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Kenneth Koch\u2019s Rose, <i>Where Did You Get That Red?<\/i> (Vintage Books, 1990) \u2013 subtitled \u201cTeaching Great Poetry to Children\u201d \u2013 is one of my all-time favorites. The premise: kids read poems by famous poets and write related poems of their own. There are ten featured poem projects, for each of which is included a famous poem &#8211;&nbsp; among them William Blake\u2019s \u201cThe Tyger\u201d and Wallace Stevens\u2019s \u201cThirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird\u201d \u2013 with background information, teaching suggestions, and examples of student work. The second half of the book consists of a large anthology of additional poems, with accompanying writing suggestions. Very highly recommended. For ages 7 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/list-poem-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/list-poem-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/list-poem-1.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Larry Fagin\u2019s <i>The List Poem<\/i> (Teachers &amp; Writers Collaborative, 2000) is a wonderful guide to writing list or catalog poems, with many examples by both well-known poets and kids. Try a recipe poem or a how-to poem; invent a list poem of the beautiful, the happy, the sad, the magical, the infuriating. Adaptable for all ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-down-the-page-160x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-down-the-page-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-down-the-page-548x1024.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/falling-down-the-page.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Edited by Georgia Heard, <i>Falling Down the Page<\/i> (Roaring Brook Press, 2009) is a collection of list poems, among them Jane Yolen\u2019s \u201cIn My Desk,\u201d Elaine Magliaro\u2019s \u201cThings to Do If You Are a Pencil,\u201d Bobbi Katz\u2019s \u201cThings to Do If Your Are the Sun,\u201d and Patricia Hubbell\u2019s \u201cWinter\u2019s Presents.\u201d Try versions of your own. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pizza-pigs-poetry-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pizza-pigs-poetry-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pizza-pigs-poetry.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jack Prelutsky\u2019s engaging <i>Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem<\/i> (Greenwillow Books, 2008) shows how he himself uses personal experiences to write poems, with examples from his own work. Included are suggestions for aspiring poets and a list of \u201cpoemstarts\u201d to get things moving. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/picture-yourself-writing-poetry-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/picture-yourself-writing-poetry-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/picture-yourself-writing-poetry-908x1024.jpg 908w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/picture-yourself-writing-poetry-768x866.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/picture-yourself-writing-poetry.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Laura Purdie Salas, <i>Picture Yourself Writing Poetry<\/i> (Capstone Press, 2011) is a 32-page collection of photographs to be used as poem-starters, paired with helpful hints for beginning poetry writers. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kick-in-head-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kick-in-head-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kick-in-head-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kick-in-head-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kick-in-head-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kick-in-head-1536x1533.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kick-in-head-2048x2044.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Paul Janeczko\u2019s <i>A Kick in the Head<\/i> (Candlewick, 2009), subtitled \u201cAn Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms,\u201d tackles the question: Do poems have rules? Yes, they sometimes do \u2013 which, Janeczko argues, makes writing a poem both challenging and fun. The book introduces 29 poetic forms, from the couplet and haiku to the aubade, elegy, villanelle, and pantoum. Clever illustrations accompany each example. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-from-a-to-z-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-from-a-to-z-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-from-a-to-z.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Janeczko\u2019s <i>Poetry from A to Z<\/i> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2012) is an alphabetized guide to poetry forms and concepts, with illustrative examples by well-known poets and \u201cTry this\u201d projects for kids. For example, C stands for clerihews and curse poems; H for how-to poems and haiku; L for letter and list poems; and S for shape poems. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/reading-poetry-in-middle-grades-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/reading-poetry-in-middle-grades-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/reading-poetry-in-middle-grades.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Also by Janeczko, <i>Reading Poetry in the Middle Grades<\/i> (Heinemann, 2011) is a collection of 20 poems, each with associated teaching suggestions, including pre- and post-reading activities, discussion topics, writing projects and templates, and a list of related poems. Among the poems are \u201cAbandoned Farmhouse\u201d by Ted Kooser, \u201cA Poison Tree\u201d by William Blake, \u201cSummertime Sharing\u201d by Nikki Grimes, \u201cOde to Family Photographs\u201d by Gary Soto, and \u201cNothing Gold Can Stay\u201d by Robert Frost.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knock-at-a-star-original-imaezuewbmhfbhjf-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knock-at-a-star-original-imaezuewbmhfbhjf-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knock-at-a-star-original-imaezuewbmhfbhjf.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By X.J. Kennedy and Dorothy M. Kennedy, <i>Knock at a Star<\/i> (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1999) is a wonderful anthology that encourages readers to consider what poems do and how they do it. Section one, \u201cWhat Do Poems Do?,\u201d groups poems by purpose: they variously Make You Smile, Tell Stories, Send Messages, Share Feelings, Help You Understand People, and Start You Wondering. Section two, \u201cWhat\u2019s Inside a Poem?,\u201d groups selections by Images, Word Music, Beats That Repeat, Likenesses, and Word Play. \u201cSpecial Kinds of Poetry\u201d includes Limericks, Takeoffs, Songs, Show-and-Spell Poems, Finders-Keepers Poems, and Haiku; and a final section has helps for writing your own poems. Terrific. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-inside-out-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-inside-out-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-inside-out.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><i>Poetry Inside Out<\/i> (Two Lines Press, 2012), edited by Laura E. Davis and colleagues, is a poetry-and-translation-based curriculum in which kids study poems by twelve famous poets (Basho, Dante, Federico Garcia Lorca, and more) in their native languages, then translate them into English and use their translations as inspiration for poems of their own. Fascinating. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seeing-the-blue-between-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seeing-the-blue-between-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seeing-the-blue-between.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Compiled by Janeczko, <i>Seeing the Blue Between<\/i> (Candlewick, 2006) is a collection of 32 \u201cletters of advice\u201d to young poets from such established writers as Lee Bennett Hopkins, Jane Yolen, Lillian Morrison, and Jack Prelutsky. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-on-the-wing-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-on-the-wing-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-on-the-wing-589x1024.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-on-the-wing-768x1336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-on-the-wing-883x1536.jpg 883w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-on-the-wing-1178x2048.jpg 1178w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sleeping-on-the-wing.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell, <i>Sleeping on the Wing<\/i> (Vintage, 1982) is a collection of poems with associated essays on reading poetry and suggestions for writing poems of your own. Featured poets include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Allan Ginsberg, Frank O\u2019Hara, Leroi Jones, and more. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mary-Oliver-poetry-handbk-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mary-Oliver-poetry-handbk-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mary-Oliver-poetry-handbk-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mary-Oliver-poetry-handbk-768x1169.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mary-Oliver-poetry-handbk-1009x1536.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mary-Oliver-poetry-handbk-1346x2048.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mary-Oliver-poetry-handbk.jpg 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Mary Oliver\u2019s <i>A Poetry Handbook<\/i> (Mariner Books, 1994) is a concise introduction to the art of poetry writing, with examples from the works of Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. Some things, Oliver explains, can\u2019t be taught, but \u201ccan only be given;\u201d other things, on the other hand, can. Topics covered include meter and rhyme, line and form, imagery, and free verse, with some final notes on revision (Oliver herself does many) and writing groups. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Kenn Nesbit\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetry4kids.com\/\">Poetry4Kids<\/a> website features a long list of poetry projects and exercises, including experiments with a range of poetic forms (acrostic poems, concrete poems, found poems, haikus, limericks) and styles (apology, epitaph, and list poems, fractured nursery rhymes, riddle rhymes), and helpful hints on reciting poetry. Included is an extensive online poetry dictionary.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-logo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-logo.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/learn\">Learn<\/a>, from the Poetry Foundation, has resources, information, and poems, categorized for children, teens, adults, and educators, along with poetry guides, a glossary of poetic terms, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sorted-book-poem-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sorted-book-poem-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sorted-book-poem.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Nina Katchadourian\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninakatchadourian.com\/languagetranslation\/sortedbooks.php\">Sorted Books Project<\/a> began in 1993 and is still (all over the place) ongoing. The premise: choose a collection of particular book titles and group or stack the books such that the titles can be read in sequence from top to bottom. What a great way to write a poem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newspaper-blackout-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newspaper-blackout-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newspaper-blackout-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newspaper-blackout-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newspaper-blackout.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Austin Kleon\u2019s <i>Newspaper Blackout<\/i> (HarperPerennial, 2010), Kleon creates poems using newspaper articles and a black Sharpie, blacking out all the words he doesn\u2019t want. What\u2019s left is a poem. See some examples at the accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/newspaperblackout.com\/\">Newspaper Blackout<\/a> website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poem-generator.org.uk\/\">Poem Generator<\/a> has inspirational word hints and structural guidelines for helping writers produce many different kinds of poems &#8211; among them sonnet, free verse, cinquain, haiku, and concrete.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/american-academy-poets-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/american-academy-poets-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/american-academy-poets-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/american-academy-poets.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>From the Academy of American Poets, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/lesson-plans\">Lesson Plans<\/a> page has a wide range of creative projects and activities, variously for elementary, middle, and high-school-aged kids.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>POEMS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-teachers-bk-of-lists-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-teachers-bk-of-lists-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poetry-teachers-bk-of-lists.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Sylvia M. Vardell\u2019s 300+-page <i>The Poetry Teacher\u2019s Book of Lists<\/i> (CreateSpace, 2012) is a terrific resource, crammed with annotated lists of prize-winning poetry books, Common-Core-related poetry books, thematic poetry books (about everything from animals, baseball, and birds to war, weather, and world history), poetry for holidays, and approaches to teaching poetry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/using-poetry-across-curric-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/using-poetry-across-curric-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/using-poetry-across-curric-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/using-poetry-across-curric-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/using-poetry-across-curric.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Barbara Chatton\u2019s <i>Using Poetry Across the Curriculum<\/i> (Libraries Unlimited, 2010) covers writing poetry, learning about poets, creating poetry anthologies, reading and retelling classic poems, poetic forms and conventions, and poetry across the curriculum in science, math, history, geography, fine arts, and physical education. Many book and resource lists. For elementary- and middle-school-level kids.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poems-for-teaching-in-content-areas-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poems-for-teaching-in-content-areas-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poems-for-teaching-in-content-areas.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By J. Patrick Lewis and Laura Robb, <i>Poems for Teaching in the Content Areas<\/i> (Scholastic, 2007) is a collection of 75 poems plus teaching ideas to mesh with history, geography, science, and math lessons. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>POETRY AND LITERATURE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/good-books-good-times-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/good-books-good-times-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/good-books-good-times-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/good-books-good-times-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/good-books-good-times.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, <i>Good Books, Good Times<\/i> (HarperCollins, 2000) is a delightful illustrated collection of poems about books and reading by such poets as Myra Cohn Livingston, Jack Prelutsky, and X.J. Kennedy. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bookspeak-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bookspeak-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bookspeak-1024x977.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bookspeak-768x732.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bookspeak-1536x1465.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bookspeak.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Laura Purdie Salas, <i>BookSpeak! Poems about Books<\/i> (Clarion Books, 2011) is a collection of creatively illustrated poems about reading and books, among them \u201cIf a Tree Falls\u201d (\u201cIf a book remains unopened\u2026\u201d), \u201cA Character Pleads for His Life,\u201d and \u201cOn the Shelf and Under the Bed.\u201d For ages 4-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/poetry\/index.html\">Poetry Through the Ages<\/a> is a terrific exploration of the history of poetry from ancient times to the present. Also included are definitions and examples of many poetic forms (with helpful instructions for writing poems of your own) and an overview on reading and speaking poetry. Click on \u201cAbout\u201d for a detailed teacher\u2019s guide to accompany the site, with a challenging list of lesson plans and projects. For middle-school-level students and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/american-academy-poets-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/american-academy-poets-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/american-academy-poets-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/american-academy-poets.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From the Academy of American Poets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poems?field_form_tid=399\">Ars Poetica: Poems about Poetry<\/a> has a long list of just that, among them Archibald MacLeish\u2019s famous \u201cArs Poetica\u201d (\u201cA poem should not mean, but be\u201d). Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnellen.com\/cybereng\/poetry\/\">Poems on Poems<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/372979\/12-beautiful-poems-for-book-lovers\">12 Beautiful Poems for Booklovers<\/a> is an excellent selection, each poem illustrated with a picture of the author. #1: Emily Dickinson\u2019s \u201cThere Is No Frigate Like a Book.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>POETRY AND HISTORY<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-Too-am-america-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-Too-am-america-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-Too-am-america-845x1024.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-Too-am-america-768x931.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-Too-am-america.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Langston Hughes, <i>I, Too, Am America<\/i> (Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012) is a picture-book version of the poem \u201cI, Too:\u201d \u201cI am the darker brother\/They send me to eat in the kitchen\/When company comes\/But I laugh\/And eat well\/And grow strong.\u201d For ages 4-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Read Langston Hughes\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/177020\">I, Too<\/a> online at the Poetry Foundation website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Presidents-stuck-by-Katz-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Presidents-stuck-by-Katz-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Presidents-stuck-by-Katz.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Susan Katz\u2019s <i>The President\u2019s Stuck in the Bathtub<\/i> (Clarion Books, 2012) has a poem for every president from George Washington (\u201cWhere Didn\u2019t George Washington Sleep?\u201d) to Barack Obama (\u201cYo Mama\u201d), each with an appealing cartoon-style illustration. The poems are crammed with the sort of human interest that sticks in readers\u2019 memories: John Quincy Adams was fond of skinny-dipping; 350-pound William Howard Taft got stuck in the bathtub; Rutherford B. Hayes had the first White House telephone; Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit. For ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><b><b><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/president-taft-by-Barnett-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/president-taft-by-Barnett-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/president-taft-by-Barnett-881x1024.jpg 881w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/president-taft-by-Barnett-768x893.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/president-taft-by-Barnett-1321x1536.jpg 1321w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/president-taft-by-Barnett-1761x2048.jpg 1761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Also see Mac Barnett&#8217;s <em>President Taft is Stuck in the Bath<\/em> (Candlewick, 2016). &#8220;Blast,&#8221; said Taft. &#8220;This could be bad.&#8221; For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hand-in-hand-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hand-in-hand-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hand-in-hand-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hand-in-hand-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hand-in-hand-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hand-in-hand-2048x1638.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, <i>Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry<\/i> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 1994) is an impressive 144-page illustrated collection, covering American history from the arrival of the first settlers through modern times. The poems, grouped into eight different historical categories, are by such poets as Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, and Walt Whitman. A great resource for ages 7 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lives-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lives-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lives-768x950.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lives.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><i>Lives: Poems About Famous Americans<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1999), selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, is a collection of poems about sixteen famous persons \u2013 among them Paul Revere, Sagacawea, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Edison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Rosa Parks, and Neil Armstrong \u2013 by many different poets. Each poem is paired with full-page folk-art-style portrait by Leslie Straub. For ages 8-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/heroes-and-sheroes-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/heroes-and-sheroes-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/heroes-and-sheroes-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/heroes-and-sheroes-768x1199.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/heroes-and-sheroes-984x1536.jpg 984w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/heroes-and-sheroes-1312x2048.jpg 1312w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/heroes-and-sheroes.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>J. Patrick Lewis\u2019s <i>Heroes and She-roes<\/i> (Dial, 2005) is a collection of illustrated poems celebrating \u201ceveryday\u201d heroes, among them Helen Keller, an elementary schoolteacher, firefighters, Rosa Parks, Rosie the Riveter, Gandhi, and Cesar Chavez. For ages 8-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/america-at-war-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/america-at-war-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/america-at-war.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, <i>America at War<\/i> (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008) is an illustrated collection of 50 poems, variously categorized under American Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and Iraq War. A prologue, \u201cWish for Peace\u201d by Joan Bransfield Graham, begins \u201cWould\/that war\/could only\/rage upon the\/battlefield of page.\u201d For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/book-of-americans-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/book-of-americans-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/book-of-americans.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>All right \u2013 how <i>could<\/i> Rosemary and Stephen Benet\u2019s <i>A Book of Americans<\/i> go out of print? Luckily it\u2019s still available, inexpensively, from used-book suppliers, and it\u2019s more than worth the minimal price. Poems, each featuring a prominent American, cover American history from Christopher Columbus to Woodrow Wilson. (In between: Virginia Dare, Pocahontas, Peter Stuyvesant, Captain Kidd, George Washington, Abigail Adams\u2026) And, unlike most writers in the 1930s, the Benets appreciated the plight of the native Americans (\u201cBut just remember this about\/Our ancestors so dear\/They didn\u2019t find an empty land\/The Indians were <i>here<\/i>.\u201d). For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/john-browns-body-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/john-browns-body-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/john-browns-body-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/john-browns-body-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/john-browns-body.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Stephen Vincent Benet\u2019s <i>John Brown\u2019s Body<\/i> (Ivan R. Dee, 1990) is an epic, wonderful, poetic, and heartbreaking story of the Civil War from the viewpoints of disparate characters. Read it, guys. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From the <i>New Yorker<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2013\/01\/a-brief-history-of-inaugural-poems.html\">Poetry for Presidents<\/a> is a history of inaugural poems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipling.org.uk\/rg_historical.htm\">Historical Poems<\/a> is a list of poems by Rudyard Kipling that trace the course of English history from prehistory to the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Each poem (click on the red arrow) is accompanied by a page of interesting historical background information.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>From the Academy of American Poets, <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/anthology\/19th-20th-century-war-poems\">19<sup>th<\/sup>&#8211; and 20<sup>th<\/sup>-century war poems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From the Library of Congress, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/teachers\/2012\/03\/making-connections-through-poetry-finding-the-heart-in-history\/\">Finding the Heart in History: Making Connections Through Poetry<\/a> is introduced with a quote from Plato: \u201cPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.\u201d The site describes a project to make an American-history-based \u201cfound poetry\u201d chapter book using primary source documents and images. Documents and images are available at the site from the Library of Congress collection, categorized by historical period. Adaptable for a range of ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>POETRY AND GEOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-of-wonders-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-of-wonders-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-of-wonders.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>J. Patrick Lewis\u2019s <i>A World of Wonders<\/i> (Dial, 2002) is a catchy and informative collection of poems about geography, illustrated with colorful crackle-patterned pictures reminiscent of old maps. Included are poems about explorers Columbus and Magellan, \u201cIs the Yellow Sea Yellow?\u201d (yes), \u201cHow Will a Cave Behave?\u201d (includes a useful mnemonic about stalactites and stalagmites), and \u201cOne Square Foot Per Person, Please,\u201d an unforgettable take on the world\u2019s population. For ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-america-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-america-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-america-870x1024.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-america-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/my-america.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, <i>My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States<\/i> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2000) is a collection of 50 poems by 40 different poets, grouped by geographical region. Included with each geographical section is a colorful map and a page of state facts. For ages 7 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Got-geography-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Got-geography-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Got-geography.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Also selected by Hopkins, <i>Got Geography<\/i> (Greenwillow Books, 2006) is an illustrated collection of 16 poems pertaining to world geography. Titles include \u201cMapping the World,\u201d \u201cIf I Were the Equator,\u201d \u201cAwesome Forces,\u201d \u201cEarly Explorers,\u201d and \u201cCompass.\u201d For ages 7-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td>At the PoemHunter website, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/the-map\/\">The Map<\/a>, a poem by Elizabeth Bishop.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryatlas.com\/\">The Poetry Atlas<\/a> is in the process of \u201cMapping the World in Poetry.\u201d Click on a site on the world map for a poem about that place.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>&nbsp;<\/b><b>POETRY AND SCIENCE<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/outside-your-window-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/outside-your-window-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/outside-your-window-923x1024.jpg 923w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/outside-your-window-768x852.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/outside-your-window-1384x1536.jpg 1384w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/outside-your-window-1846x2048.jpg 1846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Nicola Davies\u2019s <i>Outside Your Window<\/i> (Candlewick, 2012), illustrated with gorgeous paper collages by Mark Hearld, is a collection of 50 poems about nature, categorized by season, for ages 3-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/all-the-water-in-the-world-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/all-the-water-in-the-world-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/all-the-water-in-the-world-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/all-the-water-in-the-world.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>George Ella Lyon\u2019s <i>All the Water in the World<\/i> (Atheneum\/Richard Jackson Books, 2011) is a poetic introduction to the water cycle with collage-style illustrations by Katherine Tillotson. For ages 4-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/butterfly-eyes-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/butterfly-eyes-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/butterfly-eyes.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Joyce Sidman\u2019s <i>Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) is a collection of riddling poems about the denizens of fields and meadows, illustrated with beautiful colored scratchboard scenes. Facing pages give the answer to each poetic riddle and provide scientific background information. For ages 5-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/song-of-water-boatman-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/song-of-water-boatman-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/song-of-water-boatman.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Also see Sidman\u2019s other poetry collections celebrating ecosystems, among them <i>Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) and <i>Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin, 2010).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Comets-Stars-Florian-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Comets-Stars-Florian-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Comets-Stars-Florian-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Comets-Stars-Florian.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Douglas Florian\u2019s thematic collections of poems include many on science topics, among them <i>In the Swim<\/i> (Sandpiper, 2001), <i>Insectopedia<\/i> (Sandpiper, 2002), <i>On the Wing<\/i> (Sandpiper, 2000), <i>Mammalabilia<\/i> (Sandpiper, 2004), <i>Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs<\/i> (Sandpiper, 2005), <i>Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars<\/i> (Harcourt Children\u2019s Books, 2007), and <i>Poetrees<\/i> (Beach Lane Books, 2010).&nbsp; Illustrated with terrific paintings. For ages 5-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/science-verse-original-imaeaebwjhugzg8u-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/science-verse-original-imaeaebwjhugzg8u-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/science-verse-original-imaeaebwjhugzg8u-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/science-verse-original-imaeaebwjhugzg8u-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/science-verse-original-imaeaebwjhugzg8u-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/science-verse-original-imaeaebwjhugzg8u-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/science-verse-original-imaeaebwjhugzg8u.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith\u2019s <i>Science Verse<\/i> (Viking Juvenile, 2004), the protagonist is zapped with the curse of SCIENCE VERSE when his science teacher offhandedly announces \u201cYou know, if you listen closely enough, you can hear the poetry of science in everything.\u201d Now all science concepts appear in the form of hysterical parodies on classic poems \u2013 twisted scientific takes on Joyce Kilmer\u2019s \u201cTrees,\u201d Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u201cThe Raven,\u201d \u201cJabberwocky,\u201d \u201cCasey at the Bat\u201d (here, it\u2019s about the scientific method, not baseball), and \u2013 well, guess this one: \u201cAstronaut Stopping By a Planet on a Snowy Evening.\u201d For ages 7-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From the Poetry Foundation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/article\/178599\">Ten Poems to Get You Through Science Class<\/a> has selections by William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, Richard Brautigan, Christina Rossetti, and more, all with discussion questions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/microscope-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/microscope-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/microscope-859x1024.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/microscope-768x915.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/microscope-1289x1536.jpg 1289w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/microscope-1719x2048.jpg 1719w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/microscope.jpg 1755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Read Maxine Kumin&#8217;s (funny) poem <a href=\"http:\/\/holyjoe.org\/poetry\/kumin.htm\">The Microscope<\/a> online.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>POETRY AND MATH<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/arithmetic-sandburg-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/arithmetic-sandburg-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/arithmetic-sandburg.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Every frustrated math student\u2019s favorite poem is Carl Sandburg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/Arithmetic\">Arithmetic<\/a>, which begins \u201cArithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and our of your head.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/when-a-line-bends-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/when-a-line-bends-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/when-a-line-bends-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/when-a-line-bends.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Rhonda Gowler Greene\u2019s picture book <i>When a Line Bends\u2026A Shape Begins<\/i> (Sandpiper, 2001) is an upbeat rhyming introduction to shapes \u2013 circle, square, triangle, diamond, rectangle, octagon, oval, star, heart, and crescent \u2013 for ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mathematickles-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mathematickles-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mathematickles.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Betsy Franco\u2019s <i>Mathematickles <\/i>(Margaret K. McElderry, 2006) follows a little girl and her cat through the seasons, demonstrating how words and math equations combine to make poetic puzzles. Summer, for example, features \u201cfeet \u2013 shoes + grass = barefoot\u201d and \u201crock x waves = sand.\u201d (I love these.) For ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/arithmeticle-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/arithmeticle-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/arithmeticle-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/arithmeticle-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/arithmeticle.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By J. Patrick Lewis, <i>Arithme-Tickle<\/i> (Sandpiper, 2007) is a collection of fun rhyming-riddle mathematical puzzles with titles like \u201cHow to Weigh Your Poodle\u201d and \u201cSailing a Bathtub.\u201d \u201cA Regular Riddle,\u201d for example, begins: \u201cWhat\u2019s the number of points on a regular star\/Less the number of wheels on a regular car\/Plus the number of teeth in a regular mouth\/Less the number of states that begin with South\u2026\u201d For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grapes-of-math-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grapes-of-math-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grapes-of-math-768x852.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/grapes-of-math.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Greg Tang\u2019s catchy <i>The Grapes of Math<\/i> (Scholastic, 2004) is an illustrated collection of rhyming math riddles that encourage kids to use pattern-recognition and grouping skills to solve problems. (There are faster ways of counting the number of grapes on a vine than one by one.) For ages 7-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mathterpieces-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mathterpieces-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mathterpieces.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>There are several more by Tang in the same (rhyming) format, among them <i>Math for all Seasons<\/i> (Scholastic, 2005), <i>Math Potatoes<\/i> (Scholastic, 2005), <i>Math Fables<\/i> (Scholastic, 2004), <i>Math Appeal<\/i> (Scholastic, 2003), and <i>Math-terpieces<\/i> (Scholastic, 2003).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/marvelous-math-hopkins-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/marvelous-math-hopkins-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/marvelous-math-hopkins.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins, <i>Marvelous Math<\/i> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2001) is a collection of math-promoting poems by a variety of poets. Mary O\u2019Neill\u2019s \u201cTake a Number,\u201d for example, points out that \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be awful\u201d to live in a world without mathematics; Lillian Fisher\u2019s \u201cTo Build a House\u201d asks if \u201cWithout numbers and measure\/Would our house ever rise\/Against the hill\/Beneath blue skies?\u201d Poems with an agenda for ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-allan-poes-pie-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-allan-poes-pie-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-allan-poes-pie.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>J. Patrick Lewis\u2019s <i>Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s Pie<\/i> (Harcourt Children\u2019s Books, 2012) is a collection of math puzzles presented through parodies of classic poems by such poets as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, A.A. Milne, Langston Hughes, and Ogden Nash. \u201cElephant with Hot Dog,\u201d for example, was inspired by Edward Lear\u2019s \u201cThere Was an Old Man with a Beard:\u201d \u201cWhen an elephant sat down to order\/A half of a third of a quarter\/Of an eighty-foot bun\/And a frankfurter, son\/Was it longer than three feet, or shorter?\u201d For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/math-poetry-Franco-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/math-poetry-Franco-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/math-poetry-Franco.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Betsy Franco\u2019s <i>Math Poetry<\/i> (Good Year Books, 2006) is a clever instruction manual on writing many different kinds of math poetry with kids, variously covering number sense, estimation, measurement, basic arithmetic operations, geometry, algebra, and graphing. Each chapter includes sample student poems, poetry templates, and teaching suggestions. The entire second half of the book is devoted to the teaching of \u201cmathematickles\u201d \u2013 an innovative and irresistible mix of word play and mathematical equation that functions like a poem crossed with a parlor game. An interesting resource for ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/math-talk-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/math-talk-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/math-talk.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Theoni Pappas\u2019s <i>Math Talk<\/i> (World Wide Publishing\/Tetra, 1993) is a collection of math-themed poems for two voices on such topics as circles, fractals, Fibonacci numbers, Mobius strips, triangles, prime numbers, tessellations, and infinity. It\u2019s a nice mix of mathematical food for thought and expanded possibilities for poetry. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>GAMES, PROJECTS, AND POETRY AT THE MOVIES<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magnetic-poetry-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magnetic-poetry-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magnetic-poetry-1024x924.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magnetic-poetry-768x693.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magnetic-poetry-1536x1386.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magnetic-poetry.jpg 1577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/magneticpoetry.com\/\">Magnetic Poetry<\/a> sells themed poetry kits, each consisting of a collection of words to be assembled into poems and stuck onto the nearest refrigerator, filing cabinet, locker door, or any other convenient metal surface.&nbsp; There are many different themed kits including kids\u2019 kits for beginners; collections for book lovers, bike lovers, music lovers, and cowboys; foreign-language collections; Math, Pirate, and Shakespeare kits; and much more. Also available: poetry collections in the form of self-adhesive chipboard words or travel stickers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Create your own online poems with <a href=\"https:\/\/magneticpoetry.com\/pages\/play-online\">virtual magnetic poetry<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MagneticPoetry_Flickr-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MagneticPoetry_Flickr-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MagneticPoetry_Flickr.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/DIY-Magnetic-Refrigerator-Words\/\">Instructables<\/a> has illustrated instructions for making your own magnetic poetry tiles.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Or try making your own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Magnetic-Pixel-Poetry\/\">Magnetic Pixel Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spoonpoetryclose-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spoonpoetryclose-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spoonpoetryclose.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ephemeralalchemy.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/spoon-poetry-tutorial.html\">Spoon Poetry Tutorial<\/a> has video instructions for writing tiny poems on colorful spoons.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/poetrypebbles-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/poetrypebbles-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/poetrypebbles.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinderart.com\/across\/poetry.shtml\">Poetry Pebbles<\/a>. You\u2019ll need a lot of pebbles, paint, and magic markers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learninggamesforkids.com\/preschool_games\/wizards-and-pigs.html\">Wizards and Pigs<\/a> is an interactive online game of rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration, featuring not only cartoon wizards and pigs, but elves, goblins, and dragons.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>From the Academy of American Poets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/national-poetry-month\/text\/watch-poetry-movie\">Watch a Poetry Movie<\/a> has annotated lists of films about poets and\/or films featuring poetry.&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>From the Internet Movie Database, an annotated list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/JqC3VhlH4bI\/\">Seven Most Compelling Movies About Poets and Poetry<\/a> includes <i>Shakespeare in Love<\/i> and <i>The History Boys<\/i>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/amz_DeadPoetsSociety_kaTT_r1_c-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/amz_DeadPoetsSociety_kaTT_r1_c-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/amz_DeadPoetsSociety_kaTT_r1_c.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Surprisingly not on the list is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097165\/\">Dead Poets Society<\/a> (1989), in which Robin Williams plays an English professor at a boys&#8217; school who both promotes a love of poetry and defiance of the status quo. It&#8217;s rated PG, but has intense and tragic aspects. 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