GIFTS

Words are Gifts


Nature

I am always amazed at what can be produced with the Window Frame Poetry organizer  when used with a photograph. A colleague shared one with us. When I use it in class I usually ask my students to choral read their poems. All students read a line from the same box and continue with each of the other boxes. This makes the choral reading enticing and the repeated ‘theme’ shows emphasis.

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Trees and twigs relying on each other

Sunshine seeping through

Togetherness, reliance a warm feeling

Distant birds chirping, announcing their existence

What else lives here?

Crunchy leaves, twigs, togetherness, a warm feeling.

 

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4 responses to “Nature”

  1. Nathan AM Smith Avatar
    Nathan AM Smith

    What a wonderful idea!!

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  2. Sounds like a good way to help students to stir up thoughts and frame them into a poem. I like that the organizer is like a window frame for the picture.

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  3. This is a perfect prompt for all the calendar pages I’ve saved over the years. I love how you use the choral reading to share. Is there any way you could share a printable link to the window frame organizer?

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  4. I like when structures support writing. It allows to to play with variations and everyone can feel success.

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I am am Elementary school teacher at an International IB School in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. I write with groups of writers, such as Teach Write.

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