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Recommended Professional Books to Support Teaching Poetry

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Recommended Professional Books to Support Teaching Poetry, to introduce poetry lessons into their classrooms. Barton, B., & Booth, D. (2004). Poetry goes to school, . 2003. Poems please! Sharing poetry with Children. (2nd edition). Markham, Ontario, CA: Pembroke Publishers. Burkhardt, R. M. (2006). Using poetry in the classroom: Engaging students in learning. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education. Chatton, B. (2010). Using poetry across the curriculum, , S. (2005). Poetry everywhere: Teaching poetry writing in school and in the community. New York

Holidays: The Perfect Time to Pair Poetry and Picture Books

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Holidays: The Perfect Time to Pair Poetry and Picture Books, to get you started, which can be found in our book, The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations, and Libby Martinez (Knopf, 2014) These are just a few examples from The Poetry Friday Anthology, at Texas Woman’s University. She has published extensively and maintains the Poetry for Children blog, are the creative forces behind The Poetry Friday Anthology series (Pomelo Books)

Build-Your-Own Online Magnetic Poetry Kit With Google Drawings

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Build-Your-Own Online Magnetic Poetry Kit With Google Drawings, , while doing a poetry writing activity with my seventh-grade English class, I discovered that Google Drawings could be fashioned into a creative writing tool. Some of the fun poetry writing activities I use with my middle school students include Book Spine Poetry, Found Poetry, Blackout Poetry and Magnetic Poetry. What they all have in common is the requirement to compose a poem from, that poetry can be inspired by—and built from—any text in any setting. The original version

TILE-SIG Feature: Concrete Poetry as a Way to Enhance Written Language Skills

<img sfref="[images|OpenAccessDataProvider]b9762f8b-5636-4846-b90a-fd29203b9ae4" src="/images/default-source/reading-today/avatarclarisselima.jpg?sfvrsn=0.10576977767050266" alt="Clarisse Olivieri de Lima" title="Clarisse Olivieri de Lima" style="float: left; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;" />Clarisse Olivieri de Lima's deforestation lesson features poetry-writing using technology tools from ReadWriteThink, Poetry4Kids, and more.

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TILE-SIG Feature: Concrete Poetry as a Way to Enhance Written Language Skills, of concrete poetry. By definition, concrete poetry (or shape poetry or visual poetry) is poetry whose, poems don’t have to rhyme! You can learn more from Poetry4kids.com’s How to Write Concrete Poetry. In my school, 6th graders crafted concrete poetry examples like the ones shown below as part, of the words, and the best disposition for the elements in the poetry. Then they animated each section, which, examples of student-created concrete poetry compiled at Poetry Soup, or you might be inspired

TILE-SIG Feature on Emphasizing Choice in Multimodal, Digital Poetry in the ELA Classroom: One Teacher’s Argument

<img sfref="[images]a295d637-a19e-44ea-91d8-48234c366abf" src="/images/default-source/reading-today/avataralexandrapanos.jpg" alt="alexandra panos" title="alexandra panos" style="float: left; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;" />Alexandra Panos explains several ways to integrate technology into classroom poetry lessons and refers these multimodal poetry ideas to CCSS criteria.

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TILE-SIG Feature on Emphasizing Choice in Multimodal, Digital Poetry in the ELA Classroom: One Teacher’s Argument, the importance of multimodal, digital poetry in the ELA classroom. As a middle school teacher, for an immersive poetry experience in my classroom. My school first transitioned to standards based, ). But, because of the ongoing scholarly arguments for poetry instruction and the quality work students produce, my administration has joined me in my endeavor to fully embrace poetry in my classroom, immerse themselves in the reading and writing of poetry and poetic language. In a time of standards-based

TILE-SIG Feature: Digital Poetry Bridging Common Core Standards with Multimodal Instruction

<img sfref="[images]fdfb7225-97c1-48c2-ba38-1dd3b9322851" src="/images/default-source/reading-today/avatarjuliebwise.jpg" alt="Julie B. Wise" title="avatarjuliebwise" style="float: left; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;" />Julie B. Wise shares how CCSS multimodal poetry lessons can increase the mood, imagery, and voice of students' poems.

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TILE-SIG Feature: Digital Poetry Bridging Common Core Standards with Multimodal Instruction, composition. In traditional poetry, composition is mediated on a piece of paper. The author’s goal is to evoke feelings and mental images through the printed text on a page. In digital poetry, to explore poetry within a collaborative, multimedia environment. In addition, digital poetry connected out of school literacies with classroom instruction and added relevance to the study of poetry as a genre. Canadian researchers, Hughes & John (2009) implemented digital poetry with 6th and 7th grade

November 15 is the Deadline for IRA Promising Poet Award

<img sfref="[images]27e42ae4-7855-4681-98e3-2a973e2e06b5" src="/images/default-source/reading-today/avatargregneri.gif" alt="Greg Neri" title="avatargregneri" style="float: left; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;" />Greg Neri was the most recipient of the IRA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for an outstanding new writer of children’s poetry.

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Poet Award is intended for an outstanding new writer of children’s poetry. The award, given every, poetry and to build upon his legacy. The deadline for submission is November 15. The award committee is currently accepting applications for poetry copyrighted between 2010 and 2012. Perspective, within the appropriate time frame, and the author may not have more than two children’s poetry books, must simply accompany their original text with an English translation. All poetry will be judged

Using Poem Cards for a Transmedia Project

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Just as savvy parents can slip zucchini into recipes to make every bite count, savvy teachers can use poetry and transmedia such as poem movies and poem cards to enrich all content areas, Poetry Minute, Poetry Foundation, or poets.org. Here are some examples: http://pomelobooks.com, at Texas Woman’s University. She has published extensively and maintains the Poetry for Children blog, are the creative forces behind The Poetry Friday Anthology series (Pomelo Books)

Using Poem Movies to Hook Kids on Multiple Content Areas

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is our annotated list of some of our favorite poem movies, which we feature in our Poetry Friday, Students: “Old Water” by April Halprin Wayland from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, on science. “Kindergarten Kid” by Stephanie Calmenson from The Poetry Friday Anthology, Will Float” by Eric Ode from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science (Third Grade, Week 1: Scientific, ” by Michael J. Rosen from The Poetry Friday Anthology (Fourth Grade, Week 36: Looking Forward) Poet Michael

View ReadWriteThink Presentations From IRA Annual Convention

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students around the world. STEM Poetry, Part 1: Poetry and Science Emily Manning highlights ways to connect science concepts and poetry in the classroom. STEM Poetry, Part 2: Poetry and Math Jennifer Altieri shares how students can connect math and poetry in the classroom. STEM Poetry, Part 3: Poetry and Engineering Deborah Kozdras and James Welsh focus on the integration