Poetry is something that you often have to convince students to read. But once you hook them in with humorous poetry like that of Shel Silverstein and Bruce Lanky, you have converts. Here is another form of poetry that is engaging to reluctant poetry readers: concrete poetry. If you are not familiar with that term, it is a poem that is written about an object and the words of the poem are written in a way that creates a shape of that object. I like that the author explains what concrete poems are and also gives addition resources for books and websites. I found that the poems were cute. Some were more difficult to read than others due to fonts, but I'm sure this will draw students in to reading a different type of poetry. If you are working with 3rd graders or older, you may want to have them try to create their own concrete poems. It is not an easy thing to do, because you have to be able to draw the shape, be aware of space as you fill it in with words. So this may be a project that you ask students to do as partners.
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