Table of CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE Poetry 4 CHAPTER TWO It Rhymes 6 CHAPTER THREE Taking Shape 10 CHAPTER FOUR Making Sense of It 14 CHAPTER FIVE Poem on the Side 16 CHAPTER SIX Poems that Count 20 Glossary 22 For More INformation 23 Index 24 About the authors 24
CHAPTER ONE Poetry Writing poetry is a way of sharing what we’re thinking or how we feel Poems can be short or long Some poems rhyme Others do not Like music poems have a rhythm or beat Rhythm is a pattern of beats and sounds Put your hand on your heart Can you feel the da-dum da-dum of your heart beating That is your heart’s rhythm 4
Would you like to be a poet Here’s what you’ll need to complete the activities in this book Notebook Pen The first poem you ever heard might have been a nursery rhyme Nursery rhymes are short poems They often tell a story Here are some lines from Itsy Bitsy Spider The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout Down came the rain and washed the spider out Out came the sun and dried up all the rain And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again Which words rhyme in this poem 5
