Writing Workshop Speaker Book suggestions

In November by Cynthia Rylant
Imagine a Day (Imagine a Night) by Sarah L. Thomson
If... by Getty Trust Publications


These books can be used to make classroom books.

Transition from visualize to inferring

~Use Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky by Georgia Heard.
~Rewrite the words onto chart paper.
~ Fold or roll the paper up so only one line of the poem is exposed at a time.
~ Have the students try to guess what the animal is based on the evidence
~ Unroll the next line and ask them if the new information has changed their thinking?
~ Keep unrolling and discussing.

ClickBeetle

My third grade teacher uses this for a variety of reasons, but mainly to help the students get through a transition.

She says the poem and by the time she is finished they need to be seated.

~ClickBeetle

Click beetle
Clack beetle
Snapjack black beetle
Glint glitter glare beetle
Pin it in your hair beetle
Tack it to your shawl beetle
Wear it at the ball beetle
Shine shimmer spark beetle
Wear it in the dark beetle
Listen to it crack beetle
Click beetle
Clack beetle

~Mary Ann Hoberman

I see

Today I subbed halfday.
As I was browsing through her site found through the school I ran across this cool idea for poetry using a fun book kids like called I SPY as inspiration. They called theirs I SEE


http://www.scribd.com/doc/24279567/Microsoft-Word-Horrell-final