It's time to study POETRY in our 7th Grade English curriculum. This is the promise it makes:
"Exploring poetry will increase your fluency and sensitivity to language...you will become aware of new relationships between people, things and ideas." Doesn't that sound promising? And a little unlikely when your students groan at the thought of it?
After reading several poems out loud to each other I decided poetry would end for the day.
"Time for Spelling!" I announced.
Without skipping a beat, Kiki began singing absentmindedly as she prepared for the next subject:
(Sung to the tune of 'If You're Happy and You Know It')
Spelling is so hard for-or me
Spelling is so hard for-or me
Switch-ing words, fluttering like the birds
Spelling is so hard for-or me!
That is the PERFECT description of dyslexia, if anyone ever wanted to know.
"Exploring poetry will increase your fluency and sensitivity to language...you will become aware of new relationships between people, things and ideas." Doesn't that sound promising? And a little unlikely when your students groan at the thought of it?
After reading several poems out loud to each other I decided poetry would end for the day.
"Time for Spelling!" I announced.
Without skipping a beat, Kiki began singing absentmindedly as she prepared for the next subject:
(Sung to the tune of 'If You're Happy and You Know It')
Spelling is so hard for-or me
Spelling is so hard for-or me
Switch-ing words, fluttering like the birds
Spelling is so hard for-or me!
That is the PERFECT description of dyslexia, if anyone ever wanted to know.
1 comments:
She's good. She is a poet. She will be famous. How old was she when she asked, "In heaven, will there be birds, or will WE be the birds?" Just the way she worded that question shows a poet's heart.
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