Yummy! Eating through a Day Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Illustrated by Renee Flowers

Yummy! Eating through a Day Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Illustrated by Renee Flowers

Yummy! is a great introduction to poetry to very young readers. The poems are simple, accessible, and silly, focusing on favorite foods and meals.

Target ages: Preschool, kindergarten, 1^st grade

Springboards for lessons: This book naturally lends itself to explore rhyming patterns. Students can create a matching game that requires to pair matching rythming together.

Additionally, students can be encouraged to choose their own favorite food and create descriptive poems and illustrations about it. Older students can write these poems themselves and younger students can dictate their ideas to their teachers. These can also draw attention to cultural differences within meals and how food is celebrated differently around the world.