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Showing posts with label elementary poetry lesson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elementary poetry lesson. Show all posts
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Onomatopoeia Lesson Part 1

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Boom! Crash! Look out, readers. The Manor Woods Third Graders have more ear-splitting onomatopoeia poems to share with you today. Di...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

In Residence: Poetry Stories

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Greetings from Northfield Elementary School, Writerly Friends! Ms. Grim's class began our residency with growing and shrinking poems t...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Portrait Poetry Friday: Starting with What's Real

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One of my favorite workshops for elementary and middle schoolers is on portrait poems. (You can read a "poem walk" though the mode...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

I See the Stars at Night: A Lesson in Opposites

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How do we get our bearings in a poem? Is the action set in the day or night? Is the emotion happy or sad? Are the people or animals in the...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Portrait Poems Part 3

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Last week, we looked at writing portrait poems with elementary schoolers. Part one of the lesson is here , where I introduce the concept of...
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Laura Shovan is poetry editor for Little Patuxent Review. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone, won the Harriss Poetry Prize. Laura is a Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Residence. Her novel-in-verse for children, THE LAST FIFTH GRADE OF EMERSON ELEMENTARY, debuts in spring, 2016 (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House).
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