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This Educator Tool is designed to support and inspire you and your students wherever you are in your poetry journey.
Lessons, strategies, and best practices to engage students in writing poetry.
In this Dear Poet Spark, created in partnership with the Academy of American Poets, students will explore the many ways you can connect to a poem.
In this Dear Poet Spark, created in partnership with the Academy of American Poets, students will explore the many ways you can connect to a poem.
In this Dear Poet Spark, created in partnership with the Academy of American Poets, students will learn more about voice: what it is exactly, and how to name the elements of it.
In this Dear Poet Spark, created in partnership with the Academy of American Poets, students will learn more about voice: what it is exactly, and how to name the elements of it.
In this lesson, students will use mentor texts to hone their revision skills before turning to their own poetry drafts.
In this lesson, students will use mentor texts to hone their revision skills before turning to their own poetry drafts.
Students explore the shape of poetry, and learn how the physical shape of a poem can impact its meaning, tone, and beauty.
Students explore the shape of poetry, and learn how the physical shape of a poem can impact its meaning, tone, and beauty.
Publishing student writing is at the heart of 826's work. This Educator Tool shares more about our publishing process.
Publishing student writing is at the heart of 826's work. This Educator Tool shares more about our publishing process.
Author bios offer students another opportunity to express themselves, through writing, and to feel like a real author. This Spark walks students through the process of writing one.
Author bios offer students another opportunity to express themselves, through writing, and to feel like a real author. This Spark walks students through the process of writing one.
Tools, activities, and tips to embrace the process of revision with your students.
Tools, activities, and tips to embrace the process of revision with your students.
This Educator Tool is designed to support and inspire you and your students wherever you are in your poetry journey.
A guide to teaching and writing poetry with students in grade 3-12, featuring favorite poetry resources from across 826 Digital
A collection of 826 resources and Mentor Texts that foster creating social change through writing.
See resources to help your students use writing to create positive social change across their communities.
This resource will support educators through the process of co-creating Community Agreements with students.
Center students in the community-building process by co-creating community agreements.
This resource will support educators in building a classroom community through writing.
Find activities and Sparks for promoting inclusion, connection, and community through writing.
This tool provides educators resources for engaging in the revision process with students.
Find strategies for approaching and practicing revision, including tips from authors like Amanda Gorman and Tiphanie Yanique.
This guide offers an abundance of resources to help students practice the basic elements that make up a short story.
See resources from 826 that focus on short story elements, including plot development, characterization, conflict, and dialogue.
A flexible, stackable series of weekly writing units that invite students to write with authentic purpose.
Students will write to reflect, write to connect, write to create, and write to advocate for themselves and their community.
A flexible, stackable series of weekly writing units that invite students to write with authentic purpose.
Students will write to reflect, write to connect, write to create, and write to advocate for themselves and their community.
A flexible, stackable series of weekly writing units that invite students to write with authentic purpose.
Students will write to reflect, write to connect, write to create, and write to advocate for themselves and their community.
A flexible, stackable series of weekly writing units that invite students to write with authentic purpose.
Students will write to reflect, write to connect, write to create, and write to advocate for themselves and their community.
A guide to publishing student writing, filled with best practices from the 826 Network.
Why publish student writing? This Educator Tool dives into the many benefits of publishing student work and shares best practices for making it happen in your learning spaces.
This poetry prompt from Ada Limón invites students to consider a personal connection to an animal.
This poetry prompt from Ada Limón invites students to consider a personal connection to an animal.
Students recall “last times” in their lives and revisit the depth of their experience through writing.
Students recall “last times” in their lives and revisit the depth of their experience through writing.
Students will write a personal narrative where they describe themselves as a place. Not a specific place, but all the things a "place" consists of.
In this Spark from Jason Reynolds, students will write a personal narrative where they describe themselves as a place. Not a specific place, but all the things a "place" consists of.
This Spark asks students to write a poem that celebrates the ordinary objects and figures in their lives.
This poetry prompt from Rachel Eliza Griffiths asks students to consider the ordinary in their lives—then write a poem that celebrates those ordinary objects and figures.
What lives inside a word? Find out how to trace connections between two dissimilar words with this playful Spark from award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.
What lives inside a word? Find out how to trace connections between two dissimilar words with this playful Spark from award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.
Students create an identity chart and write about parts of their identity most salient to them.
Students create an identity chart and write about parts of their identity most salient to them.
Students will identify their favorite sensory memories and transfer them to a visual heart map.
Students will identify their favorite sensory memories and transfer them to a visual heart map.
In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students create a poem that shares the "happys" in their life.
In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students create a poem that shares the "happys" in their life.
Why does kindness count? Students consider acts of kindness that they’ve experienced and reflect on the difference that kindness makes in the world.
Why does kindness count? Students consider acts of kindness that they’ve experienced and reflect on the difference that kindness makes in the world.
In this lesson, students will imagine a narrative in the form of a craigslist advertisement to showcase a typically scary monster as a down to earth creature.
In this lesson, students will imagine a narrative in the form of a craigslist advertisement to showcase a typically scary monster as a down to earth creature.
Students learn how to pair sound words (onomatopoeia) with feelings to create vivid, specific descriptions of different emotions.
Students learn how to pair sound words (onomatopoeia) with feelings to create vivid, specific descriptions of different emotions.
Students will report about their favorite neighborhood places and write a review about the most special one.
Students will report about their favorite neighborhood places and write a review about the most special one.
Students write to process change in their communities as a result of the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives. This lesson will support students in processing the changes in their everyday lives and help them to identify the creativity their community has exhibited.
Emotions play a big role in how we remember places important to us. Students explore this notion, writing a memoirs about a significant place.
Emotions play a big role in how we remember places important to us. Students explore this notion, writing a memoirs about a significant place.
An effective writing prompt about a significant threshold.
An effective writing prompt about a significant threshold.
Students identify the power of imagery in poetry, then practice putting this power to use in a poem about their neighborhood.
Students identify the power of imagery in poetry, then practice putting this power to use in a poem about their neighborhood.
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