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Direct linkGutzmer, Cara; Wilder, Phillip – Voices from the Middle, 2012
If we listen to them, the words of our students can provide a road map for instructional responses that meet their diverse literacy needs. In this article, Cara Gutzmer, a middle school literacy coach, and Phil Wilder, a teacher collaborator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discuss how a responsive teaching framework guided their…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Processes, Poetry, Writing Improvement
Peer reviewedFletcher, Ralph – Voices from the Middle, 1997
Describes how writing with specifics can transform poetry, helping to create vivid pictures in the reader's mind. Offers three of the author's own poems that illustrate the judicious use of detail. (SR)
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Poetry, Writing Improvement
Peer reviewedMarshall, Suzanne; Newman, Dan – Voices from the Middle, 1997
Describes a series of activities to help middle school students develop an artist's vision and then convey that vision through poetry. Describes how lessons progress from looking at concrete objects to observations of settings and characters, gradually adding memory and imagination to direct observation, and finishing with revision. Notes that…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Poetry
Peer reviewedRidolfi, Kerry – Voices from the Middle, 1997
Argues that children are as deep as the ocean, with secret places inside of them waiting to be opened. Notes that it is powerful for students to learn they can make sense of the world through words, and describes inviting them into poetry as they read poetry, create poetry packets, and write and revise poems. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedJester, Judith – Voices from the Middle, 1997
Describes organizing a poetry "slam" (a contest in which people read their original poems and listeners cast votes for their favorites) involving 200 eighth graders from two different schools. Discusses how this experience made vivid for students the need to write for an audience and to revise. (SR)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedTracy, Janet – Voices from the Middle, 2000
Describes how the author's 6 middle school students living in a village in the Yukon, 100 miles off the road system just below the arctic circle, enthusiastically wrote stories or poems about their lives. The students shared their works via an online electronic conferencing system with students from the unimaginably different landscape of the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Language Arts, Middle Schools
