Edible Spiders Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening 1.4.3.A You may or may not like real spiders, but chances are you probably have read about them. Stories about spiders both real and pretend can be found everywhere. When you were younger do you remember saying the poem "Little Miss Muffet" or singing about the "Itsy Bitsy Spider"? Maybe you read the Miss Spider children's books or the classic Charlotte's Web by E.B.White. Now it is your chance to make a contribution to all of the pieces written about spiders. Simply follow the steps below and create a spider poem of your very own. Think about spiders. What do they look like? Describe their shape. Where do spiders live? What do spiders do? Use your imagination and think about what spiders would say if they could talk. Write these ideas down on paper. After you have written down your ideas. Go back over your list; pick one or two ideas that you like the best. Put a check mark by your favorite ideas. Using the ideas that you checked, write the ideas into a short poem. Now look carefully at what you have written. Did you tell what spiders are like? Did you divide your poem into lines so that it looks like a poem? Make the changes you would like to your poem. Then copy it on a fresh sheet of paper. Now that your poem is finished, whip up some Edible Spiders, invite some friends over and have a poetry reading. Poetry checklist was adapted from: Writing in Action, by Kim Mason, copyright 1997, published by Loyola Press.
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