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Gr 4-8 Harley has written 18 poems, each one featuring a different animal. All are written as acrostics, with most of them based on the first letter of each line, but several with more unusual patterns, such as a double acrostic ("Eye to Eye"); a quintuple acrostic with a five-word message ("Impalas in Peril"); and a double acrostic concrete poem ("Hornbill's Hot Day"'). Much of Harley's poetry consists of car...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

While acrostics are often used in the primary grades for teaching poetry, poet Harley shows that the form itself is far from juvenile in this collection of eighteen poems illustrated with vibrant color photographs of African animals. She begins with an acrostic that uses the animal's name but quickly moves on to poems that make the decoding of the acrostic part of the fun. A poem about the bright orange streak on a stork's bill has...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this collection of eighteen poems about African animals, Harley makes decoding the acrostics part of the fun. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More