This poetry book is pretty difficult to read, but a lot of fun! The author, Jon Agee, compiled a collection of several tongue-twisting poems about silly and wacky situations. The lengths of each of the poems vary widely, but they are well-written and easy to get engaged in. The illustrations in this book are relatively simple, but their cartoonish qualities are the perfect accompaniment to the silly tongue twisters.I really enjoyed reading the poems in this book and found that reading them aloud was even more fun that I had originally thought! I can imagine how funny it would be to do this with a classroom, challenging each other to get through the mixed up words. Probably even more humorous is watching a teacher struggle to get through a poem!
This book would be particularly helpful with learning about rhyming, word beginnings, and word endings. I can imagine students working on a choral reading for this, also!
Orangutan Tongs: Poems to Tangle Your Tongue
By: Jon Agee
Published in 2009
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