Rules to Live By: A Lesson in ...
I happened to catch a brief segment of The Today Show this morning and couldn’t help thinking about how writing empowers people by...
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Words of Wisdom from Kelly Gal...
I know that many of you read my website and blogposts because you have attended one or more of my seminars. If you have participated...
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I had never heard of “found poetry” until I read about it a few years ago in Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children’s...
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I recently shared a “a fishing expedition for poetry”–a technique to help writers generate ideas for possible poems. ...
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I like to start my poetry units by first immersing students in free verse poetry books and encouraging them to name what they notice...
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During the past week I have been in four classrooms that have just begun or will soon begin a poetry unit of study during writing...
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