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Celebrate poetry month AND Mother’s Day with this {FREE} mini-unit!
This week I opened a dresser drawer that holds mementos from various times of my life. A whole category of
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Amazing Resources to Support Your Poetry Writing Unit
I LOVE teaching poetry writing! I mean, I really love teaching poetry. But I didn’t always feel that way. Free verse poetry used to scare
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Six-Room Poem
In a previous post shared a “a fishing expedition for poetry”–a technique to help writers generate ideas for possible poems.
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Ordinary to Poetic
One of the keys to helping students write great free verse poetry is to heighten their awareness about things they
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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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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
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Free Verse Poetry
As Georgia Heard says, “We all have poetry inside of us, and poetry is for everyone.” One of the best
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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
