Friday, April 4, 2014

Sounds Like Poetry

Today's poetry challenge is to write a poem in the style of Shel Silverstein, interspersing onomatopoeia between the words of a sentence. Here's the original:

The Fourth
by Shel Silverstein

Oh
CRASH!
my
BASH!
it's
BANG!
the
ZANG!
Fourth
WHOOSH!
of
BAROOOM!
July
WHEW!

The kids in my class really liked this one, and they wrote some terrific stuff. Here's my version:

My
clickety
students
clack
are so
clickety
busy
clack
writing
clickety
poetry,
clack
it's like
clickety
they've
clack
forgotten
clickety
how
clack
to
clickety
talk!
clack

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