Steal these Ideas for Poem in your Pocket Day Poem in your Pocket Day can be a gloriously easy way to celebrate and appreciate poetry. How do you share your love of poetry with your students and colleagues? Please feel free to steal these ideas! Have students peruse poems and the copy snippets or whole …
April 24, 2018Steal This Idea is a roundup of submissions from NYCWP-affiliated teachers; this section of our website will be updated frequently with great lessons and activities that you can use in your classrooms. Reading Steal This Idea will give you access to the ideas and innovations of a wide range of classroom teachers of all grades and content …
September 4, 2014In their notebooks, students should make four headings: People, Places, Times and Things. Students are then asked to list four childhood memories that relate to each of these headings. Here are some suggestions to get kids going: A person who/whose: I hated; death made me the saddest; I respected very much as a child; taught …
August 20, 2014Once every few weeks, put students into mixed groups and allow them to give a five minute “pitch” for a book they recently finished. They should give a summary, mention a few high points (or low points) and share their opinion of the book. The other students in the group are permitted to ask questions …
August 20, 2014Revision “telephone” can help students to change the wording of lines or sections of their writing that they’re having trouble saying the way they want to say them. Students should select a sentence from their writing that is giving them difficulty. They read the line aloud and then they go around the circle, with each …
August 20, 2014You probably already have your students using active listening protocols in your classroom, but have you thought about other ways that you can use active listening in your classroom? Try using written active listening as a note taking strategy. Having students jot in their notebooks things like “I heard so-and-so say…” helps students get the feel …
August 20, 2014Looking for a good “getting to know you” writing prompt for the beginning of the school year? Ask students to start a piece of writing with the following statement: What you have heard is true. See where their pens take them from there! Steal This Idea is a roundup of submissions from NYCWP-affiliated teachers; …
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