NERA Announces Its Spring Webinar Series with Georgia Heard
A Unit of Study in Poetry: One Month, Unlimited Potential
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
February 29, March 7, March 21 & April 11
Fee: $200 per school with 1 current NERA member participating
$235 per school without a current NERA member
NOTE: You may pay by credit card, check or purchase order. For payment details, please click on the link below.
Includes four live sessions &
access to archived sessions for 6 months
Grades K-4 session themes:
Session 1: Creating a Poetry Environment in the Classroom
In this first session, we’ll explore how to prepare for a Poetry Unit of Study by weaving poetry across the school year and throughout the school day. We’ll also discuss how to design and plan for a Poetry Unit of Study.
Session 2: Reading Poetry
In the second session, our focus will be reading poetry during a month long Poetry Unit of Study. We’ll explore ways to immerse kids in poetry, how to guide students in interpreting poems, and navigating complex poems using comprehension strategies. We’ll also learn how to read powerful mentor poems that model the qualities you will want to foster in your students’ work. And we’ll look at the Common Core State Standards Reading Poetry strand.
Session 3: Writing Poetry
In this session, our focus will be writing poetry during a month long Poetry Unit of Study. We’ll explore tried-and-true mini-lessons on inspiring kids to write powerful poems, and how poetry can be the groundwork for generating meaningful writing topics and developing fluency and stamina in a range of other genre. We’ll discuss how to design a sequence of efficient and effective writing mini lessons that will encourage students to revise up a storm from their very first drafts.
Session 4: Poetry Writing Conferring and Assessment
In our final session, we’ll learn how to become more informed readers of our student’s poems and more observant of their strategies as writers. We’ll discuss strategies to use in responding to student poems including in one-on-one conferences and small group work. We’ll learn how in conferences and small group work you can tuck familiar poems under your arms to teach young writers how to be specific and exact so that their particular voices ring out from the page. Finally, we’ll learn how to plan for practical writing assessment and celebratory publishing at the end of the unit.
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