Acrostic Poetry Using Visual Prompts
Subject: Language Arts Grade(s): 3-8 In this lesson, students will use a visual prompt to write an acrostic poem. They will practice using adjectives and descriptive phrases to illustrate meaning in their poems. Background Acrostic poetry is an...
Found Poems in the iPad Classroom
Subject: English/Language Arts Grades: 3-12 Words are all around us, but can you find words and put them together to make an interesting piece of poetry? Whether you are teaching limericks, rhyme, haikus or free verse, students can stretch their...
Photo Prompts to Ignite Novel Discussion
Subject: Language Arts Grade(s): 9th-12th grades Overview Students will complete a targeted novel discussion sparked by visual prompts with members of another class. Throughout the unit, students share contributions to the discussion to help guide...
Wonder Wednesday: What is Pi?
National Pi Day was this month (March 14th) and many schools are providing math related activities to get students involved in the celebration! There’s no better time to get students wondering what the magic number “Pi” is all about…and...
Updated Sharing Options For Student Work
Along with author profiles and filtering options, the updated Write About This app version 3.0 offers improvements in sharing student work. These improvements help students, teachers and parents review student work and offer flexibility for publishing...