Poetry Mentor Texts: Some Bugs by Andrea DiTerlizzi
By Andrea DiTerlizzi
Illustrated by Brendan Wenzel
Beach Lane, 2014
Some Bugs is one of those books that completely absorbs the reader in it’s fun but spare language. It’s a brilliant 94 words! Like Raindrops Roll, it’s one I typed up because I wanted to study the text. Not only does this text introduce different types of bugs to the youngest reader, it also invites older readers into the illustrations and rich language.
Mentor Text Writing Skills:
* Word Choice
* Vivid Verbs
* Rhythm
* Rhyme
* Spare language
* Specificity
I also featured Some Bugs in a nonfiction poetic picture book post recently.
