Spark your thinking!

1. Set up your language arts mini spark recording page: #6: Book Spine Poem

2. Have you heard of “a book spine poem?” It’s a kind of poetry that you don’t really write from scratch – instead, you “find” it by arranging book titles to make a poem. This type of poem can be serious or funny, just like in regular poetry.

3. Watch this video to see the proces.

4. Okay, ready to make your own book spine poetry? All you need is a stack of book with interesting titles from around the house, your classroom, or your school library. Place a few books on top of each other. Play around with the titles to create a short poem, words that create an image, feeling or scenes. Write down the titles when you find a combination you like.

5. As you write down titles, you might notice some that seem to go together to tell a funny or interesting story.  Try to include 4 or more book titles in your poem.

6. When you have 3 finished spine poems, you can document them by taking a picture and adding it to your recording sheet or typing the titles.

7. Share your language arts mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.

Lesson adapted from :http://www.brainpickings.org/tag/book-spine-poetry/ and http://www.pbs.org/parents/adventures-in-learning/2015/04/book-spine-poetry/