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Friday, March 9, 2012

Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!

With new state standards, we have been digging way deeper into poetry than we ever have in 4th grade! We are not only writing poems, but studying many different forms and their parts (stanza, line break, rhythm, patterns, etc). We study the reason a poem is written and classify it by its characteristics. 


My co-teacher came across a great idea to make poetry books. We modified for our needs and were very pleased with the results! Students ended up writing around 25 poems along with a special keepsake from 4th grade! Here are a few snapshots:
Posted by BJ Gates at 12:30 PM
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4 comments:

Lisa Howard

these are gorgeous! It must be difficult to adjust to the new standards, but at least the books are pretty

- Lisa
a teachers bag of tricks

March 9, 2012 at 6:13 PM
Molly Maloy

BJ,

Love these poetry books! They are so great! Poetry is one of my favorite things to teach to my 4th graders! Thanks so much for sharing and I am glad I found your blog!

Molly
Lessons with Laughter

March 10, 2012 at 9:03 PM
Sumreena Hussain

Came across your site and got some great idea! thank you!! :)

April 10, 2013 at 6:08 AM
Metal Fabrication Irvine

Hi, great reading your post

December 5, 2022 at 7:23 AM

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