You can also use jellybeans, bananas, or potato chips instead of pickles and explain the different ways that you eat them. It's up to you. A Pizza the Size of the Sun. Students will write a poem that imitates A Pizza the Size of the Sun. Next, the students use the words to write a tongue twister.
Students then trade papers and try to read each other s tongue twisters.
The teacher passes out copies of Prelutsky s poem A Pizza the Size of the Sun, and the students count off by four s. Then the students write a poem that imitates what has just been read. Finally, students share poems by reading them aloud to the class. Students will read several poems from Prelutsky s book Ride a Purple Pelican and identify their common characteristics. Students will write a poem that includes those common characteristics.