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Trust, Truth, and Ridiculous Goofs: Reading and Writing Friendship Poems
Friends make everything better even poetry! This book celebrates friendships of all kinds. And, like a good friend, it shares the tools you'll need to write your own poems. So open up, and discover the poet in you!
- GenresNonfictionWritingPoetry
32 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 2014
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May 13, 2022
Fun poems for kids and each one is a different type of poetry. Would be fun to use in an English class or book group
November 30, 2015
Kalz, Jill. Trust, Truth, and Ridiculous Goofs: Reading and Writing Friendship Poems. Picture Window Books, 2014.
This book is filled with wonderful poems about friendship from all different points of view. It is compiled with poems of all sorts embodying the centralized meaning of friendship. Each poem has a different spin on the meaning and different stories of tales between friends. The beautifully written poems are attention grabbing and keep readers’ attention through the different forms of poetry and lively illustrations depicting the meaning and storyline of each poem. This book also points out what type of poem each addition is and allows for the reader to become aware of the poetic pieces involved. While the book is comprised of different poems on friendship, it is also designed in a way to encourage readers to embark on poetry journeys of their own. Readers are able to learn how to write and different ways to write poems making this piece of literature very valuable to children interested in poetry or a class learning about different types of poetry.
Classroom Connections: This book would be wonderful to use in a classroom of fourth or fifth graders who are learning about poetry. While the book shows how poems having meanings and themes despite the shorter construction, it also points out what each poem is considered. I love that this book tells readers what form of poetry it is and how one could compose their own using each specific form. I would use this book and have students choose one of their favorite poems and then create their own poem in that form. Personally, I like concrete poems and think that children would also find this to be a fun way to create their own pieces. It allows for literacy development and creativity through both the creation of the poem and the construction. By writing the poem in the shape of what the poem is about it, in my opinion, makes it more fun and creative along the way. Students are likely to have a positive response to this project and would be more inclined to put forth effort in something that they enjoy doing.
This book is filled with wonderful poems about friendship from all different points of view. It is compiled with poems of all sorts embodying the centralized meaning of friendship. Each poem has a different spin on the meaning and different stories of tales between friends. The beautifully written poems are attention grabbing and keep readers’ attention through the different forms of poetry and lively illustrations depicting the meaning and storyline of each poem. This book also points out what type of poem each addition is and allows for the reader to become aware of the poetic pieces involved. While the book is comprised of different poems on friendship, it is also designed in a way to encourage readers to embark on poetry journeys of their own. Readers are able to learn how to write and different ways to write poems making this piece of literature very valuable to children interested in poetry or a class learning about different types of poetry.
Classroom Connections: This book would be wonderful to use in a classroom of fourth or fifth graders who are learning about poetry. While the book shows how poems having meanings and themes despite the shorter construction, it also points out what each poem is considered. I love that this book tells readers what form of poetry it is and how one could compose their own using each specific form. I would use this book and have students choose one of their favorite poems and then create their own poem in that form. Personally, I like concrete poems and think that children would also find this to be a fun way to create their own pieces. It allows for literacy development and creativity through both the creation of the poem and the construction. By writing the poem in the shape of what the poem is about it, in my opinion, makes it more fun and creative along the way. Students are likely to have a positive response to this project and would be more inclined to put forth effort in something that they enjoy doing.
March 8, 2014
Filled with many examples of different types of poems as well as directions for how to write poems, this book encouraged readers to express their feelings to their friends through poetry. Readers will find examples of an acrostic, cinquain, haiku, narrative poetry and snippets detailing the tools poets use, including rhythm, repetition, and alliteration.
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