Try This Tomorrow: Book Spine Poetry
If you’re looking for a fun way to get students making poetry, and at the same time get new titles into their hands, try using book spine poetry. This is an easy activity that makes us all poets. Just scan your bookshelf for interesting titles. Each title will make up a line of your poem. Arrange the titles so that they run together as a poem. Stack them in a pile and take a picture!
Here is a link to some 2018 book spine poetry winning poems (with the youngest category being 5-8 year olds!).
And here are some of ours:
Here is a link to our post from last year that includes a link to real world mentor texts of book spine poetry from 2015 when the Toronto Library and the Kansas City library used spine book poetry to trash talk when their baseball teams were both vying for a spot in the World Series
Posting these on class twitter and Instagram accounts is a great way to share the book spine poetry created in your classroom.