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Jaime R. Wood
| Name | Jaime R. Wood |
| Location | Spokane, Washington |
| Role | College Instructor |
"Never can there be too many avenues for teacher interaction/connection. I've found that ReadWriteThink provides reliable, forward-thinking lessons for a wide range of classroom situations. Teachers can build networks for better classroom practice quickly and easily by sharing what they know and taking what they need. It's a beautiful thing."
Jaime is a poet and a teacher whose love for words can be traced to her first exposure to Nikki Giovanni's Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day as a small child. She has taught in a variety of classrooms from an alternative charter school that adopted the Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound philosophy as its basis for teaching students without textbooks or grades to college composition courses at Colorado State University while completing her master's degree. She is currently completing an MFA in poetry at Eastern Washington University, where she teaches composition. In addition to writing lesson plans, Jaime contributed material to the Summer Activities section of the site.
Jaime is a member of NCTE and the Colorado State University Writing Project. She is the author of Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom (NCTE, 2006).
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Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org |
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Building Vocabulary: Making Multigenre Glossaries Based on Student Inquiry
Students choose unfamiliar words from their reading and create a multigenre, multimodal glossary of terms.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora’s Poem “Echoes”
Pat Mora’s poem “Echoes” demonstrates that our senses are powerful tools for literary analysis and comprehension as students use their senses to discover new ways to read and write.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Discovering Memory: Li-Young Lee’s Poem “Mnemonic” and the Brain
Students learn about memory by doing a memory-writing exercise, studying the brain to understand how it affects memory, reading Li-Young Lee’s poem “Mnemonic,” and creating projects to demonstrate their understanding.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nikki Giovanni’s poem “The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.” is paired with Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt: Researching Nutrition to Advertise for Health
After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products.
Grades 6 – 8 | Professional Library | Book
Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom
Jaime Wood offers middle school English language arts teachers material for teaching poetry by Nikki Giovanni, Li-Young Lee, and Pat Mora; the text includes graphic organizers and other resources.
Grades 9 – 12 | Activity & Project
This activity can help teens create picture books that a teen caregiver can then share with children.
Grades 3 – 5 | Activity & Project
Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.
Grades 6 – 8 | Activity & Project
Before seeing a film based on a book, classic or contemporary, children can learn about filmmaking and create their own scenes based on their favorite moments from the book.
Grades 9 – 12 | Activity & Project
Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
Work with a teen to create a wiki with everything people should know about the teen’s top ten favorite songs—and your favorite songs as well! Then invite friends to add their favorite songs too.
Grades 3 – 5 | Activity & Project
Children can enjoy a community-building experience by meeting with friends to choose, read, and discuss books together.
Grades 6 – 8 | Activity & Project
That Sounds Fun! Sound Words and Sports Poetry
In this activity, children and teens use their experiences playing or watching sporting events (or other types of outdoor games) to write poems that are full of the sounds of the games.
Grades 6 – 8 | Activity & Project
What’s in This? Investigating Nutrition Information
Encourage children and teens to make healthful food choices by having them explore the foods they eat and the ways those foods are advertised.
