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Poetry Friday: Poetry Project Update, Progressive Poem, and a Poetry Celebration
Jone is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She has so much goodness this month, so be sure to check out her posts from all month long! We Are Here Anthology The U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, just released an anthology that connects our National Parks and nature…
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Poetry Friday: Poems for Your Pocket and Poetry Month Project
Our host for the week is Irene at Live Your Poem. If you don’t subscribe to Irene’s newsletter, you MUST. This past week, she sent out a newsletter FULL of links to so many great poetry things for poetry month. Poem in Your Pocket Poem in…
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Poetry Friday: Ups and Downs of the Writing Life
Laura Purdie Salas is our host this week! Hop on over there for the roundup. Growing from the Ups and Downs of the Writing Life This week has been full of ups and downs in my writing life. Ups 3 writing things completed and turned in…
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Poetry Friday March 1, 2024
Linda at Teacher Dance is our host of the week. Hop on over there for the full roundup. Haiku of the Week through the snow and warmth rosy hellebores color bland winter garden Photo Taken: February 21, 2024 in our yard Haiku Written: February…
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Poetry Friday February 9, 2024
Carol at Beyond Literacy Link is the host this week. Hop on over there for the roundup. Haiku of the Week in the winter wind crispy flowers show off their furs Photo Taken: December 16, 2023 at Belle’s Bird Sanctuary Haiku Written: January 23, 2024…
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Poetry Friday: Artist Dates
Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading is our host today. A Trip to the Building Museum I know Julia Cameron recommends doing an artist date alone, but I’ve often broken this rule. I recently went to the National Building Museum with my writing friend, Liza. The…
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Poetry Friday: On a Flake-Flying Day
This week’s Poetry Friday host is Jama at Jama’s Alphabet Soup. https://jamarattigan.com/ On a Flake-Flying Day On a Flake-Flying Day: Watching Nature’s Wonders by Buffy Silverman Millbrook Press, 2023 On a Flake-Flying Day is another book in Buffy Silverman’s season series. You can see…
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Historical Fiction Mentor Texts: ReFoReMo 2021
Every year it’s such a joy to participate in ReFoReMo–Read for Research Month. It’s an opportunity to study mentor texts as a writer. There are hundreds of books featured this month. I’m there today talking about historical fiction picture books. Do you have a favorite historical fiction picture book?…
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NF10for10 2018: Sidebars are Not for Skipping
As a kid, I’m pretty sure I only read sidebars if they looked interesting. But there are a whole bunch of nonfiction picture books with excellent sidebars. As a writer and a librarian I’ve been keenly interested in nonfiction books that have two levels of text—a main text and…
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ReFoReMo is Here!
ReFoReMo stands for Reading for Research Month. It is run by Carrie Charley Brown and her team and focuses on diving into picture books as mentor texts. My post is the first one in the line up today with a focus on reader engagement in picture books. Hop on…
