THE Dynamic Inner workings

This week, we looked at a lot of different kinds of poems and tried our hand at creating our own. The first one that I read about and...

This week I explored poetry through writing a Haiku and a Photoku. A Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that celebrates nature and that...

Below you can find a poem that I wrote by spending some time outside and observing the beauty of the natural world around me. I love...

Here is my experience and personal feelings about poetry as a student and now as a teacher before I have learned about poetry...

This week I am going to be talking about personal narratives and helping students learn how to write them. Personal narratives focus in...

I have been learning a lot about writer’s notebooks and how to help students to create entries in them and to come up with ideas for what...

This week, I read chapter three called, “What are you Really Writing About? Discovering the Inside Story” from Mentor Texts. The chapter...

First let me start by explaining a little bit about what writer's notebooks are. Writer's notebooks are a place for students to write...

This week I read some different pieces about writing and ways to incorporate different kinds of writing into your class. The most...

For class this week, I read the book George by Alex Gino. In response to this book, I have created a blog, please check it out below....

This week, I read the books Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed and Malala and Iqbal: Two Stories of Bravery by Jeanette Winter. These stories...

This week, I read a couple different books, I read the book, The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, Emmanuel's Dream by Laurie Ann...

This week, I read the books Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh and Can I Touch your Hair? by Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Sean...

This week, I read the amazing book called The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson. This book is book about a twelve-year-old girl named...

This week, I read the book Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan. In this book, Bryan creates persona poems for eleven slaves that were to be...

This week, I read the books A Crack in the Sea by H.M. Bouwman and Dreamers by Yuyi Morales. Both of these books were about people who...

This week, I read the books, Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall, Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena and Rescue and Jessica:...

This week I read the books, Wishtree by Katherine Applegate, My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald and Freya Blackwood, and Her Right Foot by...

How do our preconceived notions affect our outlooks on things? How can children's books combat that issue? This week I read the book The...