Ma grande marmite à merveille is an excellent book to inspire students into writing poems and learning sentence structures. The pages are cut in 5 sections that makes one sentence. When each section is turned, it makes a new meaningful sentence. Each section can be turned independently to make a new sentence. With 5 sections and 21 pages, it makes 105 sentences that are different but similar in nature.
J’ai vu une fois / J’ai vu deux fois
rue Victor Hugo
deux crapeaux pas beaux
qui cuisinaient / qui effrayaient
cent bigorneaux.
http://www.amazon.ca/Ma-grande-marmite-%C3%A0-merveilles/dp/2746707462/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402761588&sr=8-1&keywords=ma+grande+marmite+a+merveille
Writing poems like that are challenging as it requires knowledge of grammar, synonyms, patterns and it also requires creativity. An interactive poem like this, with 2 pages (instead of 21) can be easily coded using Hopcotch.
https://c.gethopscotch.com/p/eradgbh
The book in interactive because the reader needs to press the text in order to change it. Also, the birds are moving, differently because they use a different ability to move. The code is very easy to write with Hopscotch 2.0.
