Wonderful Words

Hopkins, L. (2004). Wonderful Words: Poems about Reading, Writing,

Speaking, and Listening. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

This beautiful book is a compilation of poems celebrating the wonder of words and how they affect every life. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Eve Merriam, and Nikki Grimes make parts of speech, metaphors, punctuation, and writing exciting and colorful. This book makes learning about words as beautiful as poetry, not boring like a textbook.

This book can be used to teach about numerous parts of speech, writing styles, grammar, and word choice. It can also be incorporated into a poetry unit, or used as a mentor text. There are countless ways to use this book to make a classroom a more fun and vivid place.