Today I bring you The Poetry Shed. The Poetry Shed is a page in the larger Literacy Shed. Here, you will find “animated poems as well as poems read by actors and authors along with written poems and teaching ideas.” (from the site)
Poetry Month: day 6
I have been doing a poetry activity with a grade 3/4 class this week inspired by the collection of poems by Mary O’Neill titled Hailstones and Halibut Bones. All the poems in the book are about a colour and are listy-type poems describing what each colour looks, smells, sounds, tastes, and feels like. There is […]
Beyond the Book Club: Info-circles in Ancient Roman Studies by Jane MacMillan & Christy Rollo
Jane MacMillan is a lover of all things literacy and enjoys sharing her passion for literature both with her students at school and at home with her three children. Christy Rollo knew she wanted to be a teacher from the moment she taught her brother how to tie his shoe laces. She is now having […]
Teacher in Play: The Invitation of Performative Inquiry by Lynn Fels
Lynn Fels is Assistant Professor at SFU. Her research interests are performance and technology, performative inquiry, and teacher education. She and co-author George Belliveau recently published Exploring Curriculum: Performative Inquiry, Role Drama, and Learning. The story that follows was told to me by a colleague of a grade twelve English teacher who had taken his […]
Graphic Novels Professional Reference
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