About Read A Winter Book...Write A Winter Poem...20004

About The Project
Read A Winter Book ... Write A Winter Poem
January - February 2004

A Collaborative Literacy Project for Primary Students

Classes will read or listen to the reading of a winter book. As a response to the reading, students will write a class poem about the book's theme or about a character in the book. Any poetry form may be used.

* This is a good "first" Internet project.

* There is no expense involved.

* Poetry resource links and a book list are available.

To register for project, send teacher's name, grade, school name, town, state/province, country to Marci McGowan. You will be sent email confirmation of your registration. Your class name will be posted when student work is received.

One poem from each registered class will be submitted by February 15, 2004 via email to be posted on the project page. Send class poem to Marci McGowan

Extensions: Hopefully this project will encourage you to provide additional literacy response activities for your students. Send a brief description of the activities with your class poem. If you create a webpage, a link will be made from this project to your page.

The project page of class poems will be available for student reading and for teachers to use as enrichment or supplemental guided reading material.

Start: January 1, 2004
Last day to accept poems: February 15, 2004

This project can be aligned with language arts, social studies, science, and technology standards.