National Poetry Month

Poems can be...

• Long

• Short

• Both

Alliteration is when the author...

• uses the same beginning sound.

• uses the same ending sound.

• makes a picture for his poem.

Rhyme is when the author...

• uses the same beginning sound.

• uses the same ending sound.

• reads his poem out loud.

Rhythm is when the author...

• plays the drums.

• tries to rhyme but can't find a word.

• uses a pattern of syllables.

Poems can be about...

• love.

• roses.

• anything!

How do you feel about writing poetry?

• I love it!

• It's fine sometimes.

• I only write poetry when Mrs. Kelly makes me!

Which detail would be MOST important to include in a summary of the article?

• Bob Raczka is a poet who writes funny poems for children.

• A haiku is a Japanese poem with three lines containing different numbers of syllables.

• Books are more challenging to read than poetry is.

• Poem in Your Pocket Day is a part of National Poetry Month.

Which detail BEST supports the article's central idea?

• Raczka (RASS-kuh), 53, has since warmed to poetry, in part because he realized that poetry could be much more than serious and stuffy.

• It's written in the Japanese style of haiku — three lines that typically contain five, seven and five syllables each:

• He began writing about 15 years ago, with a series of books on famous works of art. When he's not writing book or poems, he works in advertising.

• Raczka might pick a poem by Mary Oliver, who writes a lot about nature. But there's no reason you couldn't pick a poem you have written just for the occasion, Raczka says.

Which of the following sentences develops the idea that poems make you stop and think?

• Most of the poems he studied at school were written hundreds of years ago by British men who used words such as "thine" and "thou."

• Some of his poetry is as much about images as it is about words: His 2016 book "Wet Cement" is written in a style known as concrete poetry.

• This requires the reader to move from line to line the same way a hopscotch player jumps between chalk squares on the playground.

• Raczka is trying to figure out what poem he'll carry around for Poem in Your Pocket Day on Thursday.

When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called

• scheme

• rhyme

• alliteration

• repetition