I’m really not one for murky, obscure poetry, whether I’m writing for young or old. However, when I’m writing for grown-ups I’m more inclined to let the symbolism rip. Also, as a poet I prefer writing free verse, so my poems for adults are all free verse. Then again, my f...
Regie Routman shares her delightful selection of free verse poems written by second graders. She shows how she demonstrates the poetry-writing process to children: thinking aloud and drafting poems about her own life, and then inviting children to write on their own. Includes 20 reproducible poems...
Building on the success of her apple project, Silverman then designed thePumpkin Patch Project. See how she "carved" a niche for second graders on the Internet and made it possible for kids and teachers to get connected! Enter the pumpkin patch! Considering the success of this apple project,...
In 2018, The Cleveland Orchestra’s education department started a violin program for second graders at Mound Elementary School in Slavic Village, and Miho Hashizume was appointed as supervisor. But when the pandemic began, the teaching staff was let go, and the program looked like it might diss...
Lessons learned again Are again to be shown ©2025 Kevin Trent Boswell Empty-headed blood scepter Rails on about rights and privileges But the angel-faced baboon Will have none of it Garrison bone hides Rancid jowls in its ivory jar
The study was carried out in two classrooms in a Finnish Language and Literature course and conducted in spring 2017 for one week. Two teachers collaborated in planning the three separate 45-min lessons, in which the 7th graders wrote poems in Finnish using the Poetry Machine with laptop comput...
To this end, the researcher developed and administered an achievement test after perusal of the seventh and tenth lessons of the tenth grade's school textbook Al-Mutalah w Nusoos (Reading and Texts). The researcher made an analysis of the textbook and identified items of the achievement test....