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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.
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This "Teacher's Corner" blog posts explores ways that teachers can invite students to explore the natural world through poetry.
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
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 …
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This post discusses ways teachers can incorporate poetry and other literature into remote learning environments.
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