Includes: Poetry lesson plan and poem exemplar
Focus: poetry writing
Use the Partner ping-pong activity from The Oral Language Book (page 41) to support students to generate ideas or vocabulary on a topic.
Instructions:
In pairs, students have turns at saying one thing each. They continue until one person cannot think of a new idea.
Topics could include:
Check out The Oral Language Book for more great talk ideas.
Includes: Poetry lesson plan and poem exemplar
Focus: poetry writing
Focus: publishing and celebrating students' work in interesting ways
Includes: two retelling talking strips
Focus: retelling