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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Our Hall Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our daily hall journal informs families, visitors and students about our week. The kids love seeing their pictures up in the hall and remembering our experiences each day. A picture and a summary of our day hangs outside our door in sheet protectors &#8211; an easy way to keep track of what we are up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1123&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my first year of Literacy Collaborative I was introduced to &#8220;Readers&#8217; Statements&#8221;. They made a huge impact in my teaching, and carried over to writing, math, and science in my classroom as Writers&#8217; Statements, Mathematicians&#8217; Statements and Scientists&#8217; Statements. A readers&#8217; statement is basically a sentence or two that states what readers do. Notice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1116&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Borrowing from other Poets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patjohnson222</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When students are writing poetry we often encourage them to choose a poet as a mentor and to try on what the poet is doing.  Sometimes students notice how a poet uses rhythm, a patterned rhyme, repetitive lines, alliteration, or onomatopoeia.  Sometimes they notice that the poet seems to be talking to someone or something; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1106&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, Ralph!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patjohnson222</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What teacher of writing has not been influenced by the work of Ralph Fletcher?  I know I have.  I’ve read just about everything that he has written for teachers and have experimented with dozens of his lesson ideas.  His series of books for kids on writing are also fabulous and I have taken many an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1093&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Write Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patjohnson222</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard Katie Wood Ray at the Ohio Reading Recovery Conference.  She told us that kids need to read a hundred poems before they start to write poetry.  Her point is that kids need models – mentor authors and mentor texts. She wants kids to apprentice themselves under a poet, notice what that poet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1084&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poems and Movement</title>
		<link>http://catchingreaders.com/2012/02/07/poems-and-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patjohnson222</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing more fun than getting kids to move with poems to enhance the meaning!  Here is how I do this lesson on creative dramatics and poetry.  Since it’s always important to gradually release responsibility when you are teaching something new, I start with modeling one poem, next I teach them how to put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1073&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Poems Out Loud</title>
		<link>http://catchingreaders.com/2012/02/03/reading-poems-out-loud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my post on Jan. 25th I promised to write up some poetry lessons that I’ve done. I often begin with the idea that many poems should be read out loud.  On an overhead projector or Smartboard, I put up my first example, “All My Hats” from Richard Margolis’s Secrets of a Small Brother.  First [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1059&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Possibility</title>
		<link>http://catchingreaders.com/2012/02/01/wordless-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Standing on the Shoulders of Authors</title>
		<link>http://catchingreaders.com/2012/01/27/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-authors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We write every day in our kindergarten classroom. I love it and the kids love it. Most days we start our writer&#8217;s workshop with a read aloud and lots of talk about author&#8217;s craft, the illustrations, what kind of book it is, etc. I always tell the kids, &#8220;maybe you could try (whatever we noticed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1047&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patjohnson222</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a discussion the other afternoon with a teacher who wanted to work on a poetry unit with her students.  I dug out all my notes from workshops I had given on poetry over the years and shared ideas with her.  First off, we talked about gathering up as many poetry books as she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&amp;blog=14708989&amp;post=1037&amp;subd=catchingreaders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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