(A work in progress)

1.  Read "I Am the Song" by Charles Causley (from "Around the World in Eighty Poems" Selected by James Berry) and have students identify the reversal pattern ("I am the songs that sings the bird / I am the clay that shapes the hand..." etc.) and try their own poems with that pattern.  Very fun!  Also good for discussing verbs and nouns.

2. Read "The Pan and the Potatoes (from "Around the World in Eighty Poems" Selected by James Berry) and have students write poems from the perspective of an object (personification).

3. PoetryTeachers.com - a list of activities.

4. Sensory Poetry. Bring in fruit. Describe it. Cut it up. Describe it as you eat it. Take notes. Write poems. You could also have kids takenotes at lunch. Or take advantage of a kid showing up with a class set of cupcakes. Any food will do! Click here for some 2nd grade sensory poems.

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