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Friday, April 26, 2013

Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word

Today a group of fifth grade students created poems inspired by those in the book, Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word by Bob Raczka and illustrated by Nancy Doniger.

This is such a fun book to share with students.  I love their "aha" moment when they see how he created them.  

I created a few:


Folktales
A
Feast
of 
Tall 
Talk

Astronomy
Any
Moon
As 
My 
Room


Here are some of the words we thought would be fun to work with:

Planets
Intelligent
Construction
Direction
Animals
Information
Awesomeness
Garden


I like how this student brainstormed words on the side first.

nails 
slams 
in

nation 
in 
formation 
for 
information

hop 
goes 
bunny 
her 
gopher



Ron 
goes 
in 

snail 
is 
man?

I
 so 
got 
this

direct 
one 
on 
one 
in 
one 
direction

Flying
fur
sir
furry
squirrel

an
icon
a
falcon
flies
follies
are 
gone

llama
in 
a
mall

tell 
gentle
gent
in 
tent

some
one
saw
some
one
so
awesome

To
burn
torch
or 
to 
burn
 out

strut 
instinct 
construct



old 
olive 
rivers

no 
mom 
on 
moon

pound 
under 
ground

If you are your students create squeezed poems, please share them with us!


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