Cave Writing

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Today students wrote Tritinas . These are free verse poems, each with a particular format. Tritina comes from the Latin word for three. Th...

Found at http://johnjudyc.blogspot.com/2010/09/fractured-nursery-rhymes.html Bell Ringer:  "Inspired By" Nursery Rhymes  Toda...

1. Bell-ringer:  Make a list of as many children's books (books for preschool and elementary age you have known and perhaps loved) as yo...

1. Bell-Ringer: Create a Halloween poem using five words or phrases you draw from the envelope.  You may add words, and use the words in any...

November 29, 2007 Today we had a mini-lesson on effective word choice -- choosing the best words for anything we write. Students worked on t...

November 16, 2007 Bring children's books today. We'll look at them to get ideas for the books we'll create for the kindergarten...