Summer! It’s finally here! If you’re anything like me, the promise of lazy summer days stays on your mind for the weeks leading up to the last day of school, but once summer hits, you find yourself a little bit bored after a few Netflix binges and days spent poolside. After doing nothing for a few weeks you find yourself stalking the Target aisles for back to school goods, cutting and laminating, and dreaming up new bulletin boards. Before long, you’ve gone from all play to all work- just in time to feel totally unrested come teacher report day. Sound familiar? This summer I could TOTALLY fall prey to this…
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5 Reasons to Add Poetry in Your Writing Instruction
Let’s talk about poetry. I feel so bad for poetry. It gets the short end of the stick. It isn’t an area of real concern in common core writing, and we tend to gloss over reading it. We assign it to one month of the year, if we teach it at all. Sometimes we recite poems near the holidays with our kids, or instruct students to write an acrostic for Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day, but honestly, poetry writing and reading has been largely left out of many modern classrooms. That said, poetry is beautiful, expressive, and a fun way to play around with language. Being able to read and…
