I know it’s hard to get our thoughts down in the first place. Then to have to make changes is just insulting. It seems as if getting anything down on paper is torture enough. Over the years, I’ve had plenty of students who were unwilling to revise their writing. She wasn’t convinced, and she didn’t change the poem. Writers often see their work differently after a day or two,” I said. Let’s look at it again tomorrow and see if you still feel that way. “Probably, but today I just feel silly and want to write a silly poem.” “I wonder if there are any other words that rhyme with sweet that have more to do with pickles than feet.” “Nothing, but sweet and feet rhyme,” she said matter-of-factly. “What do smelly feet have to do with sweet pickles?” I wondered Then I asked her about some of the more questionable rhymes.
I told her that her love of pickles was coming through loud and clear. It was mostly about pickles, but her poem was full of forced rhymes and then no rhymes. I knew this girl to be a good student and a strong reader, so I was quite surprised to read what she had written. “I’d love to,” I told her as she handed me her notebook with pride. Last spring, during a poetry writing unit, a 5th grade student asked me to read a poem she had written.
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