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These are only a handful of poetry quick writes that you can do with your stu-
dents to produce seed ideas for poems. If we are going to develop the writing
and critical thinking skills of our students, teachers “need to use a variety
of strategies to plan, revise and strengthen their writing as they work inde-
pendently and collaboratively with adults and peers to produce texts,” in this
case, poetry (New York State Next Generation Learning Standards, 2017).

Once students have a collection of poetry they can share their portfolio with
others in creative ways. The idea is that the poems are not jus t written for the
teacher but for a wider audience, an authentic audience. Students can use
digital platforms to reach a global audience, such as through a blog, o r can
share poetry recordings in a closed space such as Flipgrid, or they can read
their work at live events held in the school and communit y. Other possibil-
ities include creating videos or narrated slideshows with iMovie, podcasts,
dioramas, museum displays, or ebooks. Students could even pursue publish-
ing their poems with online publications like Teen Ink, Teachers & Writers
Magazine, and Merlyn’s Pen.

Excerpted from Chapter 4, “Poetry: Traditional, Visual, Makerspace.”

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