Information for Teaching Poetry
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Event Information
Title	Teaching Poetry
Presenter(s)	Annenberg Foundation
Contact hours	4.5
Sponsor agency	Southwest Resource Center
Dates and times
Format	Alternative delivery/Self-directed
Description All instructions and materials for this workshop are accessed through this website: http://www.learner.org/workshops/middlewriting/prog3.html In this workshop, we see two master teachers help their students develop as readers and writers of poetry. The workshop begins midway through one teacher's five-week poetry unit as she introduces a lesson on line breaks to her students. The other teacher is using a published poem to teach his fifth-grade students about writing poetry. After the students read and analyze the poem, he gives them a topic and has them practice writing stanzas modeled on the exemplar to combine into a class poem.While the videos take place in middle school classrooms, the skills and strategies taught are readily applicable to ABLE classrooms.
Keywords describing this event reading    writing    poetry
Comments Upon completion of this workshop, please submit a short reaction paper to the Southwest ABLE Resource Center. The Center will send you a Certificate of Completion. Note: This is part of a video series from Annenberg. You can complete one or several. Please register for each workshop you complete so they appear on your PD history.

Sponsor agency contact Information
Contact name/agency	Kathy Knall	Contact email	kathy.knall@sinclair.edu
Contact phone numbers	(800)558-5374 (937)512-5364