My Favorite Pencil - A Poetry Break

INTRODUCTION
Everyone has their favorite pencil or pen that they like to use when writing homework or doodling. This poem provides three different students and their description of their favorite pencil. Prepare the poetry break by writing your own poem about her favorite pencil (or pen) and sharing it with the class or group of kids. Be sure to show your favorite pencil so they can also see it!

POEM

My Favorite Pencil
by Kalli Dakos

JENNIFER:
My
favorite
pencil
is
long
and
thin
and
has
an
eraser
where
it
beings.

SYLVIA:
My favorite pencil
Is short and fat
And has an eraser
For a hat.

SANTOS:
My favorite pencil broke in two,
and I tried to fix it up with glue.

EXTENSION
Invite the children to write their own poem about there favorite pencil. Let them describe it in anyway that they view their writing instrument. It will be fun to see what characteristics and personification that they see in their pencils! Also, share other poems about school supplies, like Lee Bennett Hopkin's School Supplies: A Book of Poems.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dakos, Kalli. 1995. Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll and Other School Poems. Illus. by Joann Adinolfi. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. IBSN: 0027255832.