and living life one day- and book- at a time
We started our poetry unit this past week, and by Thursday I was feeling about as “Blah” about poetry as my students. I hadn’t yet broached my favorite poems as I was using one larger poem in each of my grade levels to teach some of the basic poetry terms, so my enthusiasm was really …
One of the projects that I like to do every other year is to have my students create Poetry Lapbooks. I generally will assign the lapbook at the beginning of the unit and will teach my content throughout. By the end of the unit the students will have their list of terms and examples from …