Resources

Children's Literature & Mentor Texts

• All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth

• Daniel Finds a Poem by Micha Archer

• Kids’ Poems: Teaching Third & Fourth Graders to Love Writing Poetry by Regie Routman

• If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky

• Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems by Paul B. Janeczko

• Mathematickles! By Betsy Franco

• A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems by Paul B. Janeczko

• Forest has a Song: Poems by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater

• Six Words Fresh off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Assimilation, and Identity by Famous and Obscure

• Love that Dog by Sharon Creech

• The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko

• All the Wild Wonders: Poems of our Earth by Wendy Cooling

• The Llama Who Had No Pajama by Mary Ann Hoberman

• Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems by Bob Raczka

• Baseball, Snakes, and Summer Squash: Poems About Growing Up by Donald Graves

• Once I Ate a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest

• 100 Things That Make Me Happy by Amy Schwartz

• In My Momma’s Kitchen by Jerdine Nolen

• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

• The Day the War Came by Nicola Davies

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

• Shortcut by Donald Crews

• I’m In Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor

• Punctuation Celebration by Elsa Bruno