For my daughter’s eighth grade poetry studies, I have chosen to use the Charlotte Mason approach and study one poet in depth for a nine weeks term. Our first poet is Robert Frost, and we are using the beautifully illustrated Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost as our poetry spine. To go along with that study, [...]
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These free printable pages can be used as notebooking pages or as graphic organizers during the prewriting stage. Have your child write down three character traits of someone in a work of literature or from history. Then demonstrate those traits to be true with the use of specific evidence. If you choose to, you can [...]
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I realized while writing a blog post that I had never compiled all of the poetic forms notebook pages onto one central post. So here are all the links directly to the printables for eleven different poetic forms. Narrative Poetry Haiku Villanelle Pastoral Sonnet Lyric Verse Free Verse Limerick Nonsense Verse Nursery Rhymes Ballad Two [...]
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I remember when my daughter was just a toddler that she could already identify some literary elements such as character. She knew who the “bad guy” was even at age three. Now that she’s in middle school, we are leaving behind oversimplified terms like “bad guy” or even “villain” to talk about protagonists and antagonists. [...]
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Research shows that students who do prewriting exercises write better essays. While many children can make their own mind maps and outlines on blank paper, other students find the framework of a graphic organizer helpful. I created three different layouts for prewriting an essay. Each one assumes the standard structure of three main ideas (three [...]
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I recently bought tickets to a performance of The Tempest by the Tennessee Shakespeare Company and realized that some theater notebooking pages would be great for after the field trip. Although we are going to see a play, these pages could work for any kind of performance in a theater – plays, ballet, opera, or other shows. Included [...]
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In looking for a printable reading log online, I was rather discouraged to find very few attractive options that would work for a middle schooler. There are some cutesy ones well suited for elementary aged readers, but a twelve year old doesn’t want a silly dinosaur on her reading log. So I created my own reading logs [...]
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Thanks to Nicole (@crookedriverhs) for this excellent idea for a notebooking page. I put out a Tweet on Twitter asking for requests, and she came back with quite a few suggestions, one of which was idioms. Great language arts topic, Nicole! I made four different layouts so that you could choose from more lines for [...]
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These free ballad notebooking pages finish up the poetic forms series. In all there are 10 sets of pages, each covering a different poetic form. A great spine for a study of poetic forms is the book A Child’s Introduction to Poetry. Use the notebooking pages to copy examples of the various forms or to take [...]
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