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, Middle Level and High School Level Conferences.
READMadness 2025 Tips off March 17
READMadness Info & Key Dates for 2025
Check out our 2024 Results below! This year will be even better. We have added a High School Bracket series and more fun activities.
2024 READMadness Most Valuable Poems
Elementary Brackets: Yip-Yip Woof. (70%-30%)
Middle Brackets: Life Doesn’t Frighten Me (56%-44%)
Bonus Brackets: Call The Periods; Call The Commas (68%-32%)
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
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
