In April HISD teachers K-6 rolled out Accelerated Literacy Learning’s Poetry Unit of Study. One teachers’ school lets them do a “review” for the last 6 weeks of school so she can teach the new Poetry Unit, others take April being Poetry Month as an opportunity to explore what the Poetry Unit has to offer.
Here’s what’s inspired us lately…
Podcast of OnBeing with Krista Tippett, interviewing Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab-Nye - really interesting and well worth listening to - as Mary describes her writing process using her notebook while walking in the woods…and much more about her fascinating life and award winning work.
https://onbeing.org/pro…/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world/
2nd grade students intent on letting the words flow…
A 1st grader writing a poem about dinosaurs and proudly reading it aloud to his classmates.