Module 2-Florian Poetry
Florian,Douglas. Insectlopedia. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.
ISBN-10: 0152013067
Douglas Florian does an amazing job of introducing the reader to insects that can usually cause one to cringe, scream or run away in fear. The topics of insects is naturally appealing to younger children and this book of poetry would be an excellent resource when doing a thematic study. The tone of each poem is light and playful, making one feel as if they are outside in the garden watching the bugs play and crawl around.
Florian presents each of the insects poems in a fresh and imaginative way. For example, in the poem, The Whirligig Beetles, it is written in a circular pattern to simulate their whirling and twirling in circles.
As an introduction to an author study on Eric Carle, I would began the unit with the following poem,
The Crickets
You don’t need tickets
To listen to crickets.
They chirp and cheep for free.
They fiddle and sing
By rubbing each wing,
And never will charge you a fee.
After reading this poem, I would have the students share what they know about crickets and share what information that they would like to find out about crickets. I would then read The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle. After reading the book, I would have the students work on retelling the story by sequencing the different animals that the cricket encounters throughout the book.
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