Poetry Month Gallery: Student Book Spine Poems

Wednesday marks the first day of April, a month noted for its showers (to bring May flowers) and fools (well, at least for one day). It’s also known as National Poetry Month and at 100 Scope Notes, we’re celebrating in an appropriately bookish way. If you try book spine poetry with your students, send me the results (scopenotes@gmail.com) and I will post them here for all to see and enjoy.

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   Elsa L says:

   March 31, 2010 at 7:20 pm

   What a wonderful idea! I’m looking for some ideas for National Library-Poetry Month, and this could be a lot of fun! Thanks!

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   Diane says:

   April 1, 2010 at 10:13 am

   Thanks for this great idea. We’re going to photocopy the book spines and put them on a bulletin board for students to “write” like magnetic poetry.

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   Stacy Post says:

   April 1, 2010 at 2:54 pm

   I love this creative wordplay activity! I’m not a teacher, but I took a whirl at it. It’s posted on my blog. What fun!

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   Margaret Kirk says:

   April 1, 2010 at 6:24 pm

   What a fun idea! I love it. So Creative and quite inspiring. At the small, rural library where I work we just did a poetry dislplay using many of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems (from a book released in the early 1900′s, complete with lovely images) printed and taped to a display rack inviting kids to PICK A POEM…take one or leave one in preparation for April 29th, which is CARRY A POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY…and maybe even read it for someone. A fun month.

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   Andy Plemmons says:

   April 2, 2010 at 2:42 pm

   This post has come through my Google Reader 4 times, and I love it! My fourth graders have already done some wonderful poems that are in your gallery. I have 5th grade and Kindergarten lined up next. Thanks so much for this idea.

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   Alex says:

   April 5, 2010 at 4:54 pm

   This is great! We’re totally going to do this at my library, and I will send you what we come up with!

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   Lynda Shoup says:

   April 7, 2010 at 9:29 pm

   This is really fun. I gave it a try, have talked about it with colleagues and have posted about it on my blog. Now I just need to think of a way to make it manageable for my young students….

   Thanks for sharing this idea and the many poems people have constructed.

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   Jennifer says:

   April 20, 2010 at 10:59 pm

   I shared this idea with an elementary school librarian who adapted it to her time limits. While she didn’t have the time for the kids to pull multiple books to create poems, she asked them to search the shelves for a title that best described themselves and share their reasoning. One girl chose Ghost Girl and explained that as the new student at school no one yet knew her.

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