UNIT 4
Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages

Bend I ♦ Seeing with Poets' Eyes

Session 1 – Seeing with Poets' Eyes
Poetry: Recommended Resources
Paper Choice: Poem Page
Poems by Zoë Ryder White and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Student Poems

Session 5 – Editing Poetry
Opinion Writing Checklist, Grade 2
FIG. 5–1 Evette
FIG. 5–2 Josie
FIG. 5–3 Sophia
FIG. 5–4 Bergin
FIG. 5–5 Maanav

BEND II ♦ Delving Deeper: Experimenting with Language and Sound to Create Meaning

Session 10 – Stretching Out a Comparison
FIG. 10–1 Klara begins to explore an image
FIG. 10–2 Klara threads an image across her poem
FIG. 10–3 Elizabeth focuses on the lion comparison

BEND III ♦ Trying Structures on for Size

Session 11 – Studying Structure
Poems by Zoë Ryder White and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Session 16 – Editing Poems: Reading Aloud to Find Trouble Spots
Opinion Writing Checklist, Grade 2

Session 17 – Presenting Poems to the World: An Author's Celebration
FIG. 17–3 Francesca's poem
FIG. 17–4 Daniel's poem
FIG. 17–5 Reed's poem