Independent Reading

Unit: Poetry

Strong readers have a clear sense of reading genres and styles that they

like and enjoy.  However, we always try to grow and expand our preferences

to help learn about new styles and new ideas and new techniques.  One way

readers do this is by using their current preferences to help choose new genres

and styles they might like.

• Topics
• Genre
• Form
• Structure

Poetry:

Rhyming Poems to Sonnet

Sonnet to Blank Verse

Sonnet to Ballad

Limericks to Flarf

Limerick to Haiku

Haiku to Cinquain

Haiku to Renga

Concrete to Free Verse

Free Verse to Blank Verse

Blank Verse to Ode

Ballad to Narrative

Narrative to Cento

Narrative to Prose Poem

Narrative to Ode

Narrative to Epic

Found Poem to Narrative

Found Poem to Cento

Found Poem to Renga