Well this made my day! Thank you, Andrew, for sharing my words, and I hope that these teachers and their students get to enjoy lots of #poetrypauses together🙂
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Poetry for the Dark Days This offering is only available until November 1, 2025. If this time of the year with its short days, long nights, and troubling news stories feels bleak to you, know that you are not alone. Our stude...

November 1 is the last day to grab this webinar to carry you and your class through the dark days of winter with #poetrypauses that do not appear in the book 🙂

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Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 4 What can a new moon teach us about hope?

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Today: What can an old poem about a new moon teach us about hope?

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Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 3 Hope can be complicated, and today’s poem explores that.

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Today, a short poem that reveals how complicated hope can be, and a two-sentence essay exercise that helps students get to the crux of their thinking succinctly.

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Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 2 A recipe poem serves as a mentor text for students to think about what hope requires.

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Day 2: a recipe poem, easy to integrate as a quick mentor text into any unit of study where thinking about the nature of hope is helpful.

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Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 1 A fresh approach to Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers

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It's a series of tiny lessons, easy to integrate, that get students contemplating and writing about hope.

The first poem? Emily Dickinson, of course, with a twist you may not have tried before.

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Poetry Pauses: Teaching With Poems to Elevate Student Writing in All Genres (Corwin Literacy) Amazon.com: Poetry Pauses: Teaching With Poems to Elevate Student Writing in All Genres (Corwin Literacy): 9781071889022: Vogelsinger, Brett: Books

And a shout out to the generosity of Martin Espada who graciously allowed me to use this very poem in #poetrypauses. #PoemADayJuly

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Also, as far as #poetrypauses go, this one should make an awesome addition to a narrative writing unit, employing senses beyond sight to capture setting.

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Will you join @marcusluther.bsky.social, @heymrsbond.com and I for #PoemADayJuly? I can’t wait for the broder #EduSky community to join us in discussing poems this summer 😎☀️

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Who can share what it looks like to use Poetry Pauses in a 48-minute HS ELA class period when also teaching a short story or seminal document? How did you prep students for the routine? When did you start? First day? 2nd week?

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Poetry Pauses Providing succinct examples of vivid writing, teaching poetry regularly helps students import techniques into any genre. Includes a companion website ...

I almost forgot to pause and acknowledge #WorldPoetryDay which is #ironic if you know me.

Fear not: all of my students read poems today. #PoetryPauses are routine in my world, a ray of sun for sure ☀️

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