I have completed my poetry lesson sequence that I was lucky to teach in a wonderful class and I have completed my final assignment and I...

This week I have been teaching poetry to third grade students for an hour each day. The focus of my poetry lessons this week was for...

Poems need to be revised just as narratives, or any other type of writing needs to be revised. Nothing ever really comes out perfect the...

Earlier this semester, I shouted out to Chrissy for using the phrase "Practice What You Teach." Throughout the entire semester Chrissy...

There are so many ways and strategies to help students to write their own poetry. One strategy that I just learned of while reading...

In Awakening the Heart by Georgia Heard, there are many ideas of how to incorporate poetry in the classroom. One way that I intend to...

But actually...I have never considered myself to be a writer of poetry or read a lot of poetry. However, I am aware that all it takes to...

A narrative revision strategy that I used in my writing this week was to ask questions to provide more detail. This strategy is something...

Shout out to classmate, Chrissy Shoaf, for using the phrase "Practice What You Teach" in her blog! This phrase is now something that I...

While reading "Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing through Children's Literature, K-6" (Dorfman & Cappelli, 2017) I thought that I would like...