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Tag: Brett Vogelsinger

January 21, 2022January 20, 2022Brett Vogelsinger

Learning From Poems: Grand Finales

This year on Moving Writers, my “beat” returns to poetry as a foundational element of a writing classroom. Each month’s post will examine how we can learn about an aspect of writing from a specific poem or poems, then look at what it might sound like to extend those ideas to a writing lesson in […]

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December 17, 2021December 9, 2021Brett Vogelsinger

Learning From Poems: Titles

This year on Moving Writers, my “beat” returns to poetry as a foundational element of a writing classroom. Each month’s post will examine how we can learn about an aspect of writing from a specific poem or poems, then look at what it might sound like to extend those ideas to a writing lesson in […]

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November 19, 2021November 19, 2021Brett Vogelsinger

Learning From Poems: Music

Teaching students to hear the music in words, we can help them create writing that is not just efficient, accurate, and clear, but also playful, dramatic, and arresting.

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September 18, 2020September 13, 2020Brett Vogelsinger

On the Lookout For Happy Accidents

My greatest hope is that amid this newness, the “I-feel-like-a-first-year-teacher-again” of it all, we can all learn some things about teaching writing that we may never have otherwise explored.

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May 11, 2020May 8, 2020Brett Vogelsinger

Poetry as An Act of Revision

One key idea threads through my series this year about poetry as part of the writing process for other genres: poetry sharpens our diction. Frequent practice in reading and writing poetry tunes our eyes and ears to what works and does not work in our choice of words, the same way practicing guitar helps train […]

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