Me I Am by Jack Prelutsky-Poetry Book Reflection

Prelustky, J. (2007). Me I am. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).

This poem is about three different children and their relationships with themselves. This book is unique in that it specifically portrays children gaining self awareness and self confidence about who they are, what they like, and how they feel.  The book is repetitious and having repition in a book allows younger children to develop a relationship with words in a book.  The repetition helps younger students remember the words and pronunciation throughout. The author definitely relates to children in that he prefers to writing childrens books as opposed to adult books because he feels as if he never really grew up himself.  The showing of uniqueness of all the children is really beneficial to show that everyone is different and they are not all the same.  When reading this some vocabulary that could be used is, uniqueness.  This is a single illustrated poem- narrative presented in picture book format.  This is such a great poem book and is would be so helpful in discussing all the differences of people in general.

Writing Activity: Students could write why they are different from their peers and what makes them different then others.  Students could also create a poem about themselves to describe themeselves and who they are.