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National Poetry Month: Do You Haiku?
BySharon Watson April 7, 2025

April is National Poetry Month. What a wonderful time to try your hand at writing a poem! Haiku (high KOO) is a beautiful poem form that comes from Japan. It is usually about nature and can be spoken in one breath. Syllables are important in a haiku. Words can be broken into parts based on…

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3 Prompts to Celebrate the Olympics
BySharon Watson July 19, 2021

SHARON’S BLOG Celebrate the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics with us. Here are three prompts and one BONUS prompt for your 5th-12th graders to enjoy as the festivities get underway! Some are light and fun. Others involve controversies and get your students thinking. Be sure to download the colorful worksheet in #1. On your mark ….

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A Real Science-Fiction Town
BySharon Watson August 3, 2014

Sometimes real stories catch our imagination and give us ideas for our fiction writing. Read this strange news report and write a science-fiction story from it.

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