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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.

A 
nails 
slams 
in

nation 
in 
formation 
for 
information

hop 
goes 
bunny 
her 
gopher



Ron 
goes 
in 

A 
snail 
is 
a 
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

I 
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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