Writer's Notebooks 3 Simple Techniques for When Students Can’t Think of a Writing Topic One of the most frequently asked questions I receive when I lead professional development on writing instruction is: “What do Read More »
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 Read More »
Poetry Six-Room Poem In a previous post shared a “a fishing expedition for poetry”–a technique to help writers generate ideas for possible poems. Read More »
Poetry Ordinary to Poetic One of the keys to helping students write great free verse poetry is to heighten their awareness about things they Read More »
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 Read More »
Mentor Texts Building Suspense Building tension or suspense in a narrative is an advanced writing skill but one that can be explicitly taught, even Read More »
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 Read More »
Poetry Free Verse Poetry As Georgia Heard says, “We all have poetry inside of us, and poetry is for everyone.” One of the best Read More »