If you've ever struggled with poetry - reading it, writing it, teaching it - I give you Hate That Cat. Miss Stretchberry has moved up a grade with her students, who are reading/writing through another poetry unit (Love That Dog is another Creech MUST read! And is the first book written from Jack's point of view). Jack's poems focus on his hatred of cats, more specifically, the mean neighborhood cat.
Jack is a clever student who has an incredibly supportive teacher, encouraging him to write poems however he would like.... They don't have to rhyme! Woo hoo! That's been my biggest struggle with teaching poetry - getting kids to see/understand that poetry doesn't have to rhyme.
At all.
At all.
At all.
ps- students in my class can expect to read a lot of the poems that Miss Stretchberry used - they're perfect choices!
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