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NCTE Poetry Notables

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Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving last week! I’ll be sharing more about NCTE over the next couple of weeks here, but I finished up the conference with a session where the Poetry Committee shares its picks for best books of the year. You can find the entire list, which was announced earlier this […]

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Poetry Friday Anthology for Science–remix!

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’ve shared Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell’s awesome Poetry Friday Anthology for Science here before, and now there’s a new edition. Teachers requested a non-grade-level-edition for kids, and Janet and Sylvia delivered. Introducing The Poetry of Science: The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids! […]

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Tip #15: Echo Read [Poetry Tips for Teachers]

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Welcome to today’s tip in my month-long Poetry Tips for Teachers series. Tip #15: Echo read. Try echo reading. You read a line, and then the students echo it back to you. This is great for helping students’ fluency, and I’m always amazed at how quickly and how well they pick up on performance nuances. […]

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Go Fly a Kite, by Laura Purdie Salas [Poetry Friday]

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Today’s poem comes from the fabulous Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. This latest offering in their Poetry Friday Anthology series is chock-full of poems exploring everything from physics to scientific methods to nature to machines to scientists. There’s a teacher’s edition, and then grade by grade student editions–with […]

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[poetry friday] “Fire” (by Laura Purdie Salas)

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Check out the cool printable that the Poetry Friday Anthology folks created for my cinquain poem, “Fire!” As we?already know, and as sad national news is proving more than ever this week,?firefighters are truly heroes who risk their lives for our safety.?(This printable was created before that news broke.) . They have a number of […]

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[Poetry Friday] Charm Bracelet and the Poetry Friday Anthology

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You’ll see lots of Poetry Friday regulars in The Poetry Friday Anthology (Common Core K-5 edition): Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core, a new?offering from Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong (of PoetryTag Time fame:>) Here’s one of several terrific poems by performer and poet Charles Waters: Charm Bracelet On my?wrist […]

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Poetry Friday: Petting Zoo and the Poetry Friday Anthology

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I have several poems in The Poetry Friday Anthology (Common Core K-5 edition): Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core, a new?offering from Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong (of PoetryTag Time fame:>) I want to share some other poems, but I like to get permission before sharing someone’s entry from an […]

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