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Poets in Practice
by Michelann Parr and Terry Campbell
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| Grades | K – 6 |
| Type | Journal |
| Pages | 36 |
| Published | September 2006 |
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This article discusses the need to engage students and teachers in active poetry writing. The authors document a process of learning how to practice poetry—one that is equally effective for teacher professional development, teacher self-study, preservice teacher education, and classroom implementation. By actually writing poetry individually, with, and alongside their students, teachers will “learn by doing” and become more effective in teaching poetry in the classroom.
What teachers and students need to know extends beyond simply knowing about poetry; they need to know how to do it and how to appreciate it as a unique form of expression.
Parr, M., & Campbell, T. (2006). Poets in practice. The Reading Teacher, 60(1), 36–46.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! A Class Book of Picturesque Poems
Students learn haiku
write descriptive poems
and share with the class.
Grades 1 – 3 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Theme Poems: Using the Five Senses
Students write theme poems in a flash using the picture book Flicker Flash by Joan Bransfield Graham and the online, interactive Theme Poems tool.
Grades 5 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool that creates slideshows that blend text and music.
Grades 4 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Talking Poetry with Blabberize
Students will be motivated to share their poetry through an online tool the features recording and animation.
