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Free Verse Poetry Examples and Strategies for kids

Free Verse Poetry Teaching Resources

If you’re looking for some new strategies to give your students a little more freedom with their poetry, here are anchor charts, mentor texts, and teaching tips to help.

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Anchor charts and mentor texts for composing strong narrative leads

Personal Narratives with Strong Leads

A strong lead can give students confidence to continue their narrative writing. This post shares ways to model and encourage strong leads in your students’ writing.

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Finding a Small Moment for Personal Narratives

Personal narratives are one of my favorite writing projects because they allow me to learn great things about my students.  I enjoy hearing about those

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Three Ways to Foster Effective Peer Feedback

Feedback is important to help our young learners continue to grow.  This includes feedback from teachers as well as feedback from peers.  Today, I am

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Second Grade Anchor Charts

This post contains anchor charts that I have been effective in my classroom.  I teach second grade, but many are versatile enough to use for

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Using Mentor Texts for Personal Narratives

For most of my 27 years of teaching, I have taught personal narratives in some way, shape or form.   In doing so, I have encountered

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Preparing for Individual Writing Conferences with Students

I love having writing conferences with my students.  It is one of the best ways to learn about their strengths and goals in writing as

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June Favorites, 2019 – Teaching Tips, Tricks & Resources

I can’t believe we are already at the end of June! We are out of school, but I still have some teaching favorites to share

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Teaching Students to Compose Strong Narrative Leads

We recently finished our writing unit on personal narratives.  As with all of my units, I like to take a little time to reflect on

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The second shift focuses on easy ways to integrate The second shift focuses on easy ways to integrate phonemic awareness into your whole group or small group lessons. Even if you don’t have a structured phonics program, you can integrate strategies such as phoneme segmentation and phoneme deletion.  There are great suggestions and words lists to help. One of my favorite parts of this chapter is a chart that provides a hierarchy of skills that lead to phonemic awareness proficiency. (Swipe to see the chart.). I love this for individuals and small groups of students who may need a little extra work. 

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I am not always the best at expressing gratitude, I am not always the best at expressing gratitude, but today is one of the days that I am very intentional about doing so.  We have our freedoms due to the great sacrifices of others. I am unbelievably grateful to be living in the United States of America.
The kids aren’t the only ones having fun on the The kids aren’t the only ones having fun on the last day of school. 

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Are you looking for some great strategies and acti Are you looking for some great strategies and activities for teaching main idea?  Check out my latest blog post. It includes a download with four free activities. You can find the link in my profile. 

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National Geographic Kids are wonderful for teachin National Geographic Kids are wonderful for teaching just about any nonfiction skills. One of my favorite features is the headings. They are great for predicting the main idea without giving it directly. 

The headings are also great for inspiring students to jazz up their own nonfiction writing headings. Scroll to see how students became inspired with their research headings. 
 
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Any time you can make a connection to ice cream, t Any time you can make a connection to ice cream, the strategy becomes more engaging!  The students and I worked together to discuss main idea and write supporting details (“cool facts”) in our own words. 

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