Poetry
Fishing Expedition for Poetry
I like to start my poetry units by first immersing students in free verse poetry books and encouraging them to
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Writing Instruction
Reading Instruction
First You Need to Love Me
The author Avi once told a group of teachers, “If you are going to teach me to read and to
Writing Instruction
Rules to Live By: A Lesson in Argument Writing from Two Young Writers
I happened to catch a brief segment of The Today Show this morning and couldn’t help thinking about how
Mentor Texts
Building Suspense
Building tension or suspense in a narrative is an advanced writing skill but one that can be explicitly taught, even
Poetry
Put It on the Page So It Looks Like a Poem
After students have studied free verse poetry, have begun to see poetry hiding everywhere, and have begun to look at
Writer's Notebooks
The Teacher’s Writers Notebook
If you are a writing teacher, I highly encourage you to keep a writer’s notebook. Because I’m not much of
Poetry
Free Verse Poetry
As Georgia Heard says, “We all have poetry inside of us, and poetry is for everyone.” One of the best
Poetry
Spring into Poetry…and Mother’s Day
It’s already mid-April and that means there isn’t much time left to enjoy National Poetry Month. It also means that
