1. Poetry: The Crown Jewel In Your Instructional Treasure Chest Debbie Carter

2. Our goals for today: 1.Discover the versatility of poetry and unlock the secret of using it to develop cultural & linguistic competence. 2.Explore how to use poetry to integrate content areas and cultivate interdisciplinary skills. 3.Map out a poetry plan for your classroom!

3. To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high- quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts. Through extensive reading of stories, dramas, poems, and myths from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements. By reading texts in history/social studies, science, and other disciplines, students build a foundation of knowledge in these fields that will also give them the background to be better readers in all content areas. Source: Common Core State Standards ¿Y ahora qué hago? ¿Y ahora qué hago?

4. Balanced Literacy

5. A framework that integrates instruction into authentic reading and writing experiences that allow children to develop the knowledge, skills, strategies, and dispositions that move them along the literacy continuum towards being independent readers and writers.

6. Shifts in Student & Teacher Roles

7. Literacy begins with cultivating a love of literature & appreciation of books!

8. Top 10 Reasons Why Poetry is the Crown Jewel In Your Instructional Treasure Chest 10. It frames language in fresh ways. 9. It promotes creative expression. 8. It encourages growth in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language.

9. Top 10 Reasons Why Poetry is the Crown Jewel In Your Instructional Treasure Chest 7. It provides access to new vocabulary and language structures. 6. It helps teach grammar and writing conventions by exploring the effect of their absence or distortion. 5. It allows language learners and students with special needs to succeed.

10. Top 10 Reasons Why Poetry is the Crown Jewel In Your Instructional Treasure Chest 4.It builds bridges to content areas and to other cultures. 3.It is a vehicle for building trust, empathy, and a sense of community. 2. It capitalizes on all 7 multiple intelligences. (Howard Gardner)

11. 1.Poetry engages readers in a powerful literary experience that becomes a stage where learners engage language and culture in meaningful ways!

12. 12 ¡Tanta teoría! ¡Quiero una idea que pueda usar el lunes! ¡Tanta teoría! ¡Quiero una idea que pueda usar el lunes!

13. Let’s do it! Source: Mi primera antología Descubre el español, p. 132

14. Source: Antón Pirulero Puertas al Sol Collection Understand Tone, Mood, Word Choice

16. 16 Be a Clock!

17. 17 Cambiarlo a un poema del día

18. ¡Qué bien! ¡Puedo complacer a los niños, los padres y la directora con esas ideas!

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22. ¿Qué es la poesía? – ¿Y me lo preguntas? Poesía eres tú? “Rima XXI”, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Ada, Alma Flor & Campoy, F. Isabel. Está linda la mar: Manual para entender la poesía y usarla en el aula. Miami, Fl: Santillana USA, 2015.