READMadness is a literacy based activity designed to spark creativity and engage students to think critically by visualizing poetry. Classes read, discuss and vote on brackets of poems in the Elementary and Middle Level Conferences.
It was absolutely awesome baby!
Your votes have been counted! All 12,148 of them! The results are in! Your 2024 READMadness Most Valuable Poems have been Crowned.
Elementary Brackets: Yip-Yip Woof. (70%-30%)
Middle Brackets: Life Doesn’t Frighten Me (56%-44%)
AND NOW … Due to overwhelming demand – Here are your 2024 READMadness BONUS BRACKETS
BONUS BRACKET Poems
“The Boy Who Didn’t Like Ice Cream” by Rebecca Syz
“Herbert Hillbert Hubert Snod” by Denise Rogers
“Call the Periods Call the Commas” by Kalli Dakos
“Exclamation!”by Fiona Halliday
“Age Ten” by Benna Crawford
“School” by Benna Crawford
“B – Is For Birthday” by Erika L. Shields
“Spring” by Kaitlyn Guenther
VOTE FOR YOUR ELITE 8 BONUS BRACKET WINNERS
READMadness Activities
BONUS BRACKET Poems
“The Boy Who Didn’t Like Ice Cream” by Rebecca Syz
“Herbert Hillbert Hubert Snod” by Denise Rogers
“Call the Periods Call the Commas” by Kalli Dakos
“Exclamation!”by Fiona Halliday
“Age Ten” by Benna Crawford
“School” by Benna Crawford
“B – Is For Birthday” by Erika L. Shields
“Spring” by Kaitlyn Guenther
VOTE FOR YOUR ELITE 8 BONUS BRACKET WINNERS
Elementary Level Poems
“Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog” by Judith Viorst
“Yip-Yip-Woof” by Kristen Frederick
“Winter Poem” by Nikki Giovanni
“Dewdrops” by Myra Viola Wilds
“My Imaginary Friend” by Santhini Govindan
“With a Friend” by Vivian Gould
“I Opened a Book” by Julia Donaldson
“Adventures with Books” by Velma Blumhagen
MIDDLE LEVEL LEVEL POEMS
“The Look” by Carol Ann Duffy
“Dog in Bed” by Joyce Sidman
“Poems” by Nikki Grimes
“Kidnap Poem” by Nikki Giovanni
“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou
“Hope is the Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickinson
“The Miracle of Morning” by Amanda Gorman
“Reading” by Jacqueline Woodson
