Blair Smith

As I mentioned in my last post, I spent this past week teaching poetry to kindergarteners. I co-taught with one of my peers how to use...

Over the course of the past few weeks, I have been creating a poetry unit for kindergarteners (which I will post later) with a few of my...

This week, I want to share with you my process of editing a poem. This poem is one that I wrote, and I think I actually like it. The poem...

This week's post is slightly different. I would like to point you in the direction of another blog that could be useful for your...

Until this week, if you had told me that I would be writing a six room poem, I would have given you a rather confused look. However,...

This week, I spent a bit of my time in the practice of writing poetry. Poetry writing is not something that I have done much of recently....

As a teacher, I should probably tell you just how much I love all school subjects and that they are all great. Well, if we are being one...

After a little over a MONTH of drafting, I FINALLY published my first piece. As I talked about in one of my earlier posts, the writing...

Currently, I am working with two of my colleagues to put together a piece of a unit plan for starting a writer's notebook and...

Mentor Texts Help Tell Stories Kids have a plethora of stories to tell, but they do not always know how to get them out. Mentor texts can...

THE CHALLENGE So you and your students have many ideas down and feel lik you are ready to pick from those ideas and turn them into...

When you walk into an elementary classroom, you are likely to see kids doing math or reading work. There is a chance that they may be...