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Stanza as Stories

Week 6 at Dever required some lesson plan pivoting. Ms. Sherfinski and Ms. Carteno’s classes each had slightly different lessons. Ms. Carteno’s class got the chance to learn Stanza for the first time and […]

Metaphor and Our Neighborhoods!

In Ms. Carteno’s 6th grade classes at Dever Elementary, we read Valerie Bloom’s “Frost” and thought about how she stretched an extended metaphor for the snow all through her poem. We thought about how […]

Stanza: Calling Cards

Week 5 at Dever was catching one group of students up about Rhyme and another group moved into learning about stanza. Ms. Sherfiniski’s class spent time telling stories through the use of a stanza […]

Show Not Tell

In week three at Dever Elementary school we focused on description. We talked about our favorite smells, textures and foods. Students did a wonderful job of focusing on an interest and showing the reader […]

I Come From

Week two at Dever Elementary was a reflective week of thinking about origins and the things that shape our own identities. Students did a great job of adding their own spin on the classic […]

Poetry as Play!

In Ms Carteno’s 6th grade classes, we read a short poem by Valerie Worth called “Safety Pin” that imagined a safety pin as some very different things (a shrimp! a fish!). We talked about […]

What is in my Name

For week one with Dever Elementary’s 7th graders, we took on learning about one another’s names through poetry. We talked about what we would be doing together during poetry time, what poetry is and […]

Description all around us

In Ms Carteno’s 6th grade classes, we read Ariel Francisco’s “Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men were Singing” and wrote poems using sensory details to describe places that we love […]

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