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Poetry at NSTA
Janet (Wong) and I are in Los Angeles for the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference all set to share POETRY with this gigantic group of science teachers. This is our third or fourth...
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Learning from students: I am
To paraphrase an ancient proverb, I like to think that the students of my students are also my teacher! I learn from them—as well as from my own students. And this April, my graduate students who are...
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Learning from students: Number poems
Here's the second installment in my series on learning through my students and THEIR students. Here, Karis uses YOU JUST WAIT with young Hayden who experiments with writing a "phone number" poem. In...
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Learning from students: Cinquains
Here's the next installment in my series featuring my students sharing poetry with THEIR students. Here, Charlotte focuses on PowerPack 4 of YOU JUST WAIT and shares the mentor poem she used and her...
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Learning from students: Dracula
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. We're looking at how they interacted with You Just Wait: A Poetry...
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Pause for a poetry Twitterchat
If you're on Twitter or want to try Twitter, First Book is holding a Twitter Chat tomorrow, Thursday, April 6 at 6pm (Central) focused on how poetry can help build a sense of community. There will be...
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Learning from students: Concretely
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. We're looking at how they interacted with You Just Wait: A Poetry...
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School Library Month
April is National Poetry Month, of course, but it's also time to celebrate LIBRARIES with both School Library Month and National Library Week, April 9-15, 2017. So what better way to combine all these...
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Learning from students: Acrostic poems
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. We're looking at how they interacted with You Just Wait: A Poetry...
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Learning from students: Sequencing
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. We're looking at how they interacted with You Just Wait: A Poetry...
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Learning from students: Found poetry
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. We're looking at how they interacted with You Just Wait: A Poetry...
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Learning from students: Internal rhyme
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. We're looking at how they interacted with You Just Wait: A Poetry...
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Learning from students: Odes
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. We're looking at how they interacted with You Just Wait: A Poetry...
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Learning from students: Family
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. We're looking at how they interacted with You Just Wait: A Poetry...
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13th annual TLA Poetry Round Up
It's time again for the annual conference of the Texas Library Association-- one of my favorite events of the year! We're gathering in San Antonio, some come join us, if you're in the neighborhood!...
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Learning from students: Repetition
Here comes another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. Now we're switching gears and looking at how my students and their...
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Learning from students: Similes
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. Now we're switching gears and looking at how my students and their...
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Learning from students: Question poems
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. Now we're switching gears and looking at how my students and their...
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Learning from students: Rhyme
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. Here, Veronica and Natasha both got the students involved in PowerPack...
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Learning from students: Cinquains
Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series. Here, Judith got the students involved in PowerPack 5 of Here We Go...
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