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Reading Text - Summarize with Poem The pantoum poem a interesting structured form that works well for a optional assessment to measure student understanding of a an article or literary work they've just studied. They can write about main idea, character, setting, theme, or conflict. Teachers can add minimum components depending…
Taken from "Versing Life Together", Chapter Eight my book Teaching Middle School English Language Arts: Incorporating 21st Century Technologies about writing pantoum poems. One pattern that yields successful poems in middle school is a version of the less-familiar pantoum, a poem consisting of eight non-rhyming lines each are used twice.…
Hispanic Heritage Month What an exciting time to feature the contributions of LatinX Writers, Speakers and Movie Makers! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with culturally relevant texts, video, and speeches that give students opportunity to expand and explore their emerging ELA skills. Read about Historically Significant Events then invite students to share what they've…
“There’s nothing new under the sun!” True, but students can be inspired by the old to do something new for themselves. Sounds weird, but that’s exactly what can occur when we invite students to pattern the writing they read. Students soon learn that close reading, analysis and imitation unleash bursts…
The theme for 2020 is "Valiant Women of the Vote" 2020 HONOREES Here's a link with resources to plan lessons to complement those suggested below. What an opportune time to feature the writing of females and to encourage students who are doing research projects to choose women as their subjects. Consider making…
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Poetry Notebook Looking for a way to engage students to create a POETRY-Notebook that showcases their learning about poetry and other English Language Arts skills and completing a product/performance assignment that reflects your instruction to meet COMMON CORE STANDARDS. Here's a link to student handout to show how they can use Poetry T.I.M.E.…
In the United States, March is Women's History Month. 2015 National Women's History Month Theme and Honorees: Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives 2015 Honorees Here's a link with resources to plan lessons to complement those suggested below. What an opportune time to feature the writing of females and to…
Pantoums and A Farewell to Manzanar Pantoums One pattern that yields successful poems in middle school is a version of the less-familiar pantoum, a poem consisting of eight non-rhyming lines each are used twice. A pantoum is less intimidating for reluctant poets and works well because it is based more…
Shakespeare Out Loud and In Color! Looking for ideas to enhance your teaching Shakespeare plays like Romeo and Juliet in ways that appeal to the multiple intelligences? Looking for ideas that provide be formative and/or summative? Want to keep it fun while assuring yourself that students are getting an in depth…
