Literary exhibition ideas

So, day two of our study of literary devices was another fun filled day of playing with language. What better way to teach alliteration then with tongue twisters? Do you know these oldies but goodies? Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? or... Rubber baby buggy bumpers or... She sells seashells by the sea shore. Did you try to say them fast??? My students each created a tongue twister about themselves. Here are a few: Fun, right? Here…

Banned Books Week, this idea would also work with weeded copies of well-loved or extra titles.

We are back with another Writer’s Workshop! This will be the last installment until December as I’m going to take a break for NaNoWriMo, but I thought we dive into some pretty deep writ…

Paper poetry lamps made for a poetry art exhibition in 2009. I was one of seven poets challenged to turn our poetry into art objects.

Literary signpost display to inspire some reading in English

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Or do you call them Cootie-Catchers? One and the same, my friend. The point is, here's an idea to help patrons figure out what to read next. Like so: I originally saw the idea on MLISsing in Action, which actually has all kinds of fun passive displays. But I decided to make my own version of the fortune teller idea: free printables included! Here's the sign and here's the cootie-catcher. There's four versions in the cootie catcher file: the first is what you see: I filled mine all in with…

Poetry anchor chart