Like most teachers, I keep asking where time is going. I mean..seriously folks...it's OCTOBER!! Fall, pumpkin patches, mums, leaves, smores, campfires....ahhh fall. Listening...to my Bichon snore. It is adorable. Loving...all of the pumpkin-ish things out there. I have now switched from my caramel iced coffee to pumpkin iced coffee. And, my scentsy is now putting off a pumpkin spice aroma. :) As we say here is Tennessee...it's fall y'all! Thinking...that my to-do list will never end. To be honest..if it did end then I wouldn't know what to do. Wanting..a mini-shopping spree. Needing...to finish my parent/teacher conference packets that start Thursday. Trick or treat...treat time! Grab my newest freebie here. I revised my poetry homework menu! ...
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Poetry a la carte!
So poems are on my mind this week which means.....I am blogging about poetry today! Once upon a time...I LOVED poetry. Then, high school AP English happened and, as much as I LOVED me some high school English, it killed my love for poetry. I got so stressed out over deciding what the author really meant and what the multiple meanings for each verse were suppose to represent. It just wasn't fun. So, I crinkled my nose for a few years when the word poetry was mentioned. Then, I was sitting in a methods course during college and a professor relit my poetry fire and inspired me to use it with my future kiddos as much as possible. So, five years later...here I am. I use poetry every week. I use it to strengthen visualization, reinforce weekly strategies, highlight phonics patterns, build stronger fluency skills, and expose students to as many different forms of text as possible. Here is how it works. I give the students a poem on Monday along with a poetry menu. ...
The Textset Library
If you know me then you know that I am an avid trade books lover. If you don't know me then...Hi! My name is Sarah, and I am addicted to trade books. My love for trade books means that I spend a lot of time and energy reading children's literature, grouping books into "sets", and determining what Common Core skills and strategies can be applied to specific texts so that I can use them to supplement a lot of the instruction across my various content curriculums. Using text sets in the classroom provide teachers with the opportunity to reach out to students' interests, expose them to nonfiction texts, and advance their knowledge about the important individuals who have impacted our world. I just love, love, love all of the opportunities that texts can provide my students. So you can imagine my excitement when the creators of the new site asked me to post a text set! I chose to post a mini text set about biographies. Recently, I have come across ...
