How-To Poems

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How-To Poems

Some poems explain a procedure, or how to do something.  It might be directions on how to play a game or make a craft or even do something silly like making an ENORMOUS snow cone.  Line-by-line, such poems walk readers through a process and teach them to do something new. 

from April 2010

from January 2011

from November 2010

Here are two more poems which explain how to do something.

Find a Roll of Foil
Two Eggs

You may have noticed that several of these poems have appeared on more than one list this month.  This is because a poem can use many strategies and cross many idea-finding paths at once.  For example, "Two Eggs" is both a how-to and a science poem.

What do you know how to do?  Try writing it out in a poem shape!

This Month's Poetry Revisits and Lessons So Far

April 1 -   Poems about Poems

April 2 -   Imagery

April 3 -   Poems about Animals We Know

April 4 -   Line Breaks and White Space

April 5 -   Poems from Everyday Life

April 6 -   Free Verse

April 7 -   Poems from Wonders & Questions

April 8 -   Classroom Poetry Peek & Circular Poems 

April 9 -   Poems about Science

April 10 - Rhyming Couplets  

April 11 -  Riddle Poems 

April 12 -  List Poems 

April 13 -  Poems for Occasions

April 14 -  Concrete Poems

April 15 -  Poems about Food

April 16 -  Quatrains

April 17 -  Poems about the Seasons

April 18 -  Alliteration

April 19 -  Poems about Sports

April 20 - Compare/Contrast Poems 

April 21 -  Family Story Poems 

April 22 -  Poems about Nature

April 23 -  Repetition

April 24 -  Poems Inspired by Fairy Tales

April 25 -  Concerns Poems

April 26 -  Mask Poems

April 27 -  How-To Poems

For the next few days, I will continue to pull together poems from MyPoWriYe (My Poem Writing Year) 2010-2011.  Then, in May, The Poem Farm will take a brief break as it finds its new direction.  Please feel free to share ideas for this new direction!

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