Welcome to the Poetry Friday party!
Today is the perfect day to go public with our plans for our next installment in The Poetry Friday Anthology series! Drum roll…
The Poetry Friday Anthology for CELEBRATIONS!
We’ll be gathering poems related to more than 100 holidays (like Halloween and July 4th), occasions (like graduation and the first day of school), and odd and interesting events (like Left Handers Day or National Yo-Yo Day). Our audience will be young children and the librarians, teachers, and families who care for them. Once again, we’ll provide “Take 5” activities for every poem.
Plus, this time we’ll be experimenting with multiple formats, each containing separate poems that, together, will form the whole book:
*some poems in paperback
*some poems presented digitally
*some poems on Pocket Poems™ cards
Ready, set, write!
If you’re interested in contributing a poem, we’ll be sharing our guidelines in September; you can email us after Sept. 1 at info@pomelobooks if you'd like to know more then.
SAMPLE POEMMeanwhile, here’s just a sample of what we’re planning—a sample poem and Take 5!activities to accompany the poem. What’s the celebration? It’s National Dog Day! Coming up on August 26, we’ll be celebrating the 10thanniversary of this canine commemoration, first initiated in 2004 by the National Dog Day Foundation.
Hooray for Dogs!
by Janet Wong
Hooray for
search-and-rescue dogs
who help us
when we’re lost
Hooray for
dogs we boss around
who don’t mind
being bossed
Hooray for
dogs who sit and stay
and play fetch
with a ball
Pugs and poodles,
mutts and labs—
we love you,
drool and all!
SAMPLE Take 5! ACTIVITIES
1. Before reading this poem aloud, display some picture books about dogs or a stuffed animal dog as a backdrop or prop. Read the poem aloud slowly and pause briefly between each stanza.
2. Share the poem again and invite children to chime in on the word, “Hooray” with zest and enthusiasm while you read the rest of the poem aloud.
3. Talk about the story behind this celebration also known as International Dog Day and National Dog Appreciation Day and how dogs are helpers: working with police, assisting those with visual or other impairments, in drug detection, searching for lost people, and pulling victims from wreckage, for example. (FYI: NationalDogDay.com)
4. Pair this poem with this picture book:
When You Wander: A Search-and-Rescue Dog Storyby Margarita Engle and illustrated by Mary Morgan (Holt, 2013). Read the book aloud and talk about the recommended steps for what to do when lost.
5. Follow up by reading aloud more poems about dogs, such as selections from:
*Ashman, Linda. 2008. Stella, Unleashed. New York: Sterling.
*Florian, Douglas. 2003. Bow Wow Meow Meow. San Diego: Harcourt.
*Franco, Betsy. 2011. A Dazzling Display of Dogs. Berkeley, CA: Tricycle.
*Rosen, Michael J. 2011. The Hound Dog’s Haiku and Other Poems for Dog Lovers. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.
*Singer, Marilyn, 2012. Every Day's a Dog's Day: A Year in Poems. New York: Dial.
And don’t forget to check out our previous installments (each featuring previously unpublished poems and related Take 5! activities for every poem):
Now let us know what you’re up to on this Poetry Friday in the COMMENTS section below. We’ll be rounding up throughout the day.
Here's what our Poetry Friday party-goers are up to this week:
First up is Buffy Silverman who has posted an original poem that appears in this month's Ladybug Magazine. Congratulations, Buffy! Check it out here.
Laura has a poem from J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyons' forthcoming collection, VOICES FROM THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON over at TeachingAuthors.
Linda is featuring a poem from INNER CHIMES over at WriteTime.
Monica has reviewed a rhyming picture book, BY WATER'S EDGE by Kay Barone, here.
Irene is sharing some of wonderful Walter Dean Myers's poems here.
First up is Buffy Silverman who has posted an original poem that appears in this month's Ladybug Magazine. Congratulations, Buffy! Check it out here. Laura has a poem from J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyons' forthcoming collection, VOICES FROM THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON over at TeachingAuthors.
Linda is featuring a poem from INNER CHIMES over at WriteTime.
Monica has reviewed a rhyming picture book, BY WATER'S EDGE by Kay Barone, here.
Irene is sharing some of wonderful Walter Dean Myers's poems here.
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