[LM_NET] Elem: Poetry Month lesson

[Josephine Dervan <rderva@INFIONLINE.NET>]

Hello All-

I am celebrating  an early Poetry Month with a lesson on Edward Lear poetry 
for my First and Second graders. We discuss what poetry is and then I read 
the poem, "A was once an apple pie" from the Complete Nonsense Book by Lear. 
My version has few illustrations so I don't share them with the class.

Then I read the beautifully illustrated version of A Was Once An Apple Pie 
adapted and illustrated by Suze Macdonald. We compare the two and discuss 
lines like: "A was once an apple pie, / Pidy / Widy / Tidy / Pidy / Nice 
insidy / Apple pie."

The classes have been enjoying it. Some children have agreed that Lear's 
work is funny even without the vivid illustrations that Macdonald uses.

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Josephine G. Dervan. Library Media Specialist
Strathmore Elementary School
Aberdeen, NJ 07747
rderva@infionline.net

He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero 

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