Using Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks to Inspire Reading Plans #poetry #BuildYourStack #SOL20

Last week I shared these poems I found by Gwendolyn Brooks with book clubs in grades 3-5. I invited them to notice, wonder, and react. I loved listening to their discussions of these poems. I posed some questions …

-What books would fall under these descriptions for you?

-Which descriptions interest you?

-What if you used these poems to build book stacks for reading over winter break?

They were off and running. They used their virtual classroom library to curate stacks of texts they recommended for the descriptions that interested them.

Here is an example of a collection one group started:

What books would you add? What do Gwendolyn Brooks’ poems inspire you to read? I would love to see your #BuildYourStack.

Here are the books that inspired it all:

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