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Poetry in the schools, at home, and everywhere in between.

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Teaching Stanzas

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Did you know that the word stanza is Italian for room ? I love sharing this fact with children. Imagine, when you are reading a poem, the...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Opposites Poems

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Writing opposites poems is one of the best ways to teach young one stanzas. My third grade students at Northfield Elementary are revising th...
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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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