
Fishing Expedition for Poetry
I like to start my poetry units by first immersing students in free verse poetry books and encouraging them to
I like to start my poetry units by first immersing students in free verse poetry books and encouraging them to
The author Avi once told a group of teachers, “If you are going to teach me to read and to
I happened to catch a brief segment of The Today Show this morning and couldn’t help thinking about how
Building tension or suspense in a narrative is an advanced writing skill but one that can be explicitly taught, even
After students have studied free verse poetry, have begun to see poetry hiding everywhere, and have begun to look at
If you are a writing teacher, I highly encourage you to keep a writer’s notebook. Because I’m not much of
As Georgia Heard says, “We all have poetry inside of us, and poetry is for everyone.” One of the best
It’s already mid-April and that means there isn’t much time left to enjoy National Poetry Month. It also means that