This is the last Wordy Wednesday in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Teaching was my second career. When I did my student teaching with 5th graders, my boss teacher introduced a vocabulary/poetry/writing lesson with a poem, "Quiddling with Words." I love this poem for so many reasons: introduction of some catchy words (perforate, ricochet, quiddle), defining perforate and ricochet in the poem where the reader can visualize the words rather than reading them from a dictionary, the fact that poems don't have to rhyme, the "aha!" alphabetical order moment. So much to learn from a short, fun piece of writing.
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