Hi there! I’m Susan Lavallee and I teach 6th Grade English/Language Arts. I love integrating technology into my imaginative practice—I like to call myself the iPodTeacher! This post shares a few of my favourite language-teaching practices. The first is a resource for cross-curricular teaching that combines content knowledge with rhythm and rhyme. The second is an excellent […]
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Teaching Poetry From The Inside Out
By Marlene Roseboom (Teacher, MEd in Imaginative Education) The question was recently put to me, seeing that April is poetry month, of how to use cognitive tools to teach poetry. That’s a pretty easy question to answer, seeing as poetry has embedded within itself many cognitive tools. (Think, for example, of emotion, imagery, metaphor, and music […]