Challenge your 6th graders to tackle free verse? Bring out the acrostics for your 3rd grade class? Take a breath! Our teacher team has compiled a list of some of the best poetry types for teaching kids how to write a poem. 1. Rhyming Poems ...
but now it’sMonster School. I have to wait to see if my publisher acquires the poems, and that’s always an unpredictable process. But I’m happy with the poems, which are strange and funny and a little scary. They’re intended for a slightly ...
Teaching poetry, in person and online, to 4th and 5th graders in English and Spanish is a constant source of joy for me. It stretches me and helps me grow as an educator, as a poet, as a person. Look for Jacob, Amaranta, and Santiago’s poems in this chapbook – their poems were...
Linda left the middle school classroom in June of 2019 after 40 years of teaching Language Arts with eighth graders. She misses their energy and their apathy, their curiosity and their complacency, their confidence and their insecurities. But mostly, she misses their passionate, powerful voices as...
Today was the first day of the English Workshop at Al Bashaer High School in Sakhnin, Israel. There were four classes of 7th, 8th, and 9th graders. The classes only last for 45 minutes and that seems too short The time went by quickly. We ...
Our 4th graders contended in their Wind, Fire, Water and Wood houses. In the end, four high-performing students were elected from each class to represent the Wind, Fire, Water and Wood houses. And four G4 teams were formed to compete for the 2018 “BIBS Chinese Poetry Conference” award...