This "Teacher's Corner" post by Rebecca Newland explores ideas for using National Book Festival videos in the classroom as a way to introduce students to contemporary poets and authors.
The following guest post, part of our “Teacher’s Corner” series, is by Rebecca Newland, a Fairfax County Public Schools Librarian and former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress. In 2015, in one of my earliest Teacher’s Corner posts, I wrote about short poetry activities to use at the beginning of class, also sometimes …
Former Library of Congress Teacher in Residence Rebecca Newland offers a lesson plan for teaching Amanda Gorman’s 2021 presidential inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb.”
A lesson plan that invites students to read and explore poetry inspired by historical events, and to write their own poems based on a historical event of their choosing.
Former Teacher in Residence Rebecca Newland explores ways to adapt some of her previous ideas for introducing poetry into the classroom for a virtual learning environment.
This "Teacher's Corner" blog post by former Library of Congress Teacher in Residence Rebecca Newland explores ideas for engaging students with poetry at the end of the school year.
Rebecca Newland, a Fairfax County Public Schools Librarian and former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress, explores ways to introduce audio recordings of poetry to students, especially as a form of remote learning.
A recording of the April 2 "Online Office Hours" webinar on poetry resources for K-12 educators is now available online. Learn more about other other "Online Office Hours" programs in this post.