Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry How to Write a Poem

 

 

 

This book is a poetry book, but it is also a how to write poetry book. It is also a contemporary realistic fiction. The author also tells you about his family throughout the book. He tells stories from his childhood. I think that this is a good change of pace in this book. It offers the young reader a lot. The reader can learn and be entertained at the same time. There are no pictures or illustrations in this book.

 

Some motivational activities would be to have the class pick a chapter where he teaches you how to write a certain type of poem and then the students can try to writ their own poem.

 

Another activity would be to have the class pick a poem out of the book and evaluate it.

 

Reader Response Questions:

 

1. Did the book help you understand how to write poetry? If so, How?

 

2. What parts of the book  did you find most entertaining?

 

 

References

 





Galda, L., Cullinan, B. E., & Sipe, L. R. (2010). Literature and the child (7th ed.). Belmont, CA:
                           Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.

Prelutsky, J. (2008). Pizza, pigs, and poetry: how to write a poem. New York: Greenwillow Books.