Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Teen Read Week: Poem #4 "Spiral Glide" by Mary Lee Hahn

Here's the fourth poem in celebration of Teen Read Week and the theme "Get Away @ the library" which is intended to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build literacy skills while reading for the fun to it. Share this thoughtful poem, "Spiral Glide" by Mary Lee Hahn from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School (Pomelo Books, 2013). You can also find it at Pinterest here


And here are the Take 5 activities that accompany the poem. The Pinterest link for the Take 5 activities is here.



Monday, October 19, 2015

Teen Read Week: Poem #3 "How Romantic Can You Get?" by George Ella Lyon

Here's the third poem in my series for Teen Read Week on the theme "Get Away @ the library" to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build literacy skills while reading for the fun to it. It's "How Romantic Can You Get?" by George Ella Lyon from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School (Pomelo Books, 2013). You can also find it at Pinterest here


And here are the Take 5 activities from the book also available at Pinterest here


More to come!

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Teen Read Week: Poem #2 "Future Hoopsters" by Avis Harley

It's time for our second installment in our poems for Teen Read Week and the theme "Get Away @ the library" to spotlight all the great resources and activities available to help teens build literacy skills while reading for the fun of it. Here's "Future Hoopsters" by Avis Harley from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School.  It is also available at Pinterest here.


And here are the "Take 5" activities that accompany the poem, also at Pinterest here.



More to come...