We've been experiencing a lot of poetry lately under the guise of "play". Many hands-on and digital activities have helped us build our capacity for writing in this often intimidating genre. Magnetic poetry and Haikubes are a big hit with many of the boys as well black out and found poetry, which requires them to rip pages out of old books and hunt for words to build a poem. You can't get much more tactile than that with poetry, can you? And to show off our poetic chops, we've instituted "Open Mic Mondays" using our class karaoke machine. Not a bad way to start the week!
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Blog AuthorMrs. McCloud is a 6th Grade English Language Arts teacher at Hedrick Middle school and the proprietor of the The ELA Cafe. Archives
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