Have You Read This Yet? Perfect Mentor Text for Poetry and a "How To" Unit of Study #PDLove #kidlit #mentortext #bookslove

This book is a MUST HAVE for all K-2 teachers. Our students need to know that poetry is a structural option in every unit of study. This book invites students to think about all the topic option for how-to or procedural writing and provides a structure that differs from the typical step 1, step 2, step 3 text.

The topics are so engaging! Anything from How to Build a Poem to How to Pay Attention to How to Tell Goblins from Elves. Readers will want to return to these poems to read them again and act them out with a partner. Every writer will also find a mentor text to study in this anthology of poems. Just look at the strong verbs in this poem:

This will support procedural writing on any topic as verbs are essential to this type of writing. I have added this book to my procedural and nonfiction poetry text set. It is one that should be in every bookroom so teachers and students have access to this powerful mentor text.