Our Book of Poems

As mentioned last week, our poets have been busily getting their poems revised and edited for publishing. This week, our writers have picked three poems of their choice from their collection, and continued to polish them by doing some more revising and editing work with their writing partners. Our poets were really into partner revise and edit. They were so ready to read their poems to their partners and eager to have them to help revise and edit. There were many positive and constructive feedback suggested. I was hearing things like:

"Wow I really like your poem, especially this part when you used onomatopoeia."
"I like your poem and how you got your inspiration from another poet."
"I am not sure what punctuation to use here. Can you help me?" 
"Your poem has a great beginning, but in the middle it began to sound like a story. How about you try using more action words or repeating pattern?"
"This is great. How about I help to to fix this word and spell it right?"

After many revising and editing sessions, our writers have finally begun publishing their poems today. All our poems will be published and bound in one class book (hopefully by the end of next week). Each child will be getting their own copy to keep so that they can continue to enjoy all poems written by their classmates.