mirror mirror a book of reversible verse

Middle school librarian by day graduate student pursuing an MLS by night. Tech challenge: take pictures of the magnetic strips throughout the week, drop them into a video creation tool, speed up the timing, and watch the poem evolve into its final form. I can just see the students arranging and rearranging the strips throughout the week, can't you? At the end of the week, revisit one of the reverso poems in Mirror Mirror and lead the students in revising and finishing their class poem. When they have their line, invite them to write it on a sentence strip, attach magnetic tape, and affix it to a dry erase board. Challenge them over the next few days to write a single line to contribute to the class poem. Writing in reverso is a great opportunity to write a class poem.Īfter reading Mirror Mirror and looking at the qualities of a poem written in reverso, select two characters from a piece of literature you have read with your students. Pieces have to be arranged and rearranged to get the right fit.

Playing with words and ideas has to occur. Writing poetry in reverso is not an easy task. You will need a stack of sentence strips and a roll of sticky magnetic tape (available at Walmart). Preparation: This activity requires a little preparation. Since writing is a tested subject in Texas in fourth and seventh grades, pairing poems in this collection with the book Eats, Shoots & Leaves would make the foundation of a great writing lesson emphasizing the impact of capitalization and punctuation on meaning. Since most students are familiar with the fairy tale characters (Snow White, the Ugly Duckling, Goldilocks, etc.), they will readily appreciate the opposing views reflected in the poems. Mirror Mirror is my first experience with reverso poems, so I appreciated the clear explanation of the form at the end of the book. The illustrations capture the characters' reflections of each other. The poems, reflected on each side of the page, can be read from the top down or from the bottom up with only variations in punctuation and capitalization resulting in poems that show disparate points of view.

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse is a collection of reverso poems capturing the varied voices of fairy tale characters from Jack and the giant to Sleeping Beauty and the prince.

Mirror mirror a book of reversible verse