Experiment with ekphrastic poetry and infuse your English class with beautiful art. These videos will help.
Category Archives: Creative Writing
Ekphrastic poem mentor texts by high school students
Use these six student-written poems as mentor texts for teaching ekphrastic poetry
Writer’s Workshop for high school
Get to know students with creative projects in a writer’s workshop for high school
Eight poem ideas for high school students
Poetry: It’s what the world needs now. Choose from these 8 poem ideas for high school students.
Poetry and high school students
Use poetry’s trendiness to encourage high school students to write poems.
Ekphrastic poems for high school students
Bring art into your classroom by including ekphrastic poetry in your writer’s workshop. #poetry #edchat
Three poem ideas for Veterans Day
Try these three poem ideas for Veterans Day with your middle and high school students.
Will the phrase “stuck out” please go away?
Here are five alternative ways to say “stuck out”
Headline Poetry Reimagined and Redefined
My high school students take headline poems to the next level Again this year, I chose to start the school year with headline poetry. Both my in-school students and those learning at home created headline poems with words and phrases found and clipped from with a variety of printed materials, magazines, newspapers, and even junkContinue reading “Headline Poetry Reimagined and Redefined”
Encourage distance learners with creative “Color Poems”
Distance learners will enjoy this creative, fun poem activity about color!