I’ve got just one more free printable notebooking page left in this series, and it will be posted this week. For today, I’m sharing two new poetic forms that we’ve studied in A Child’s Introduction to Poetry — the pastoral and the sonnet. A pastoral poem is about nature — fields, farms, the sky, and [...]
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Today I am sharing notebooking pages for both lyric verse and free verse. Although they are very different forms, they seemed to fit together well in a single post. Each set has three different layouts in three line styles for a total of nine free printable pages. A Child’s Introduction to Poetry is the inspiration for these poetic [...]
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Today’s free printable is another booklet. Print the pages front-back and fold in the center for a convenient reading journal that you can use to record things from a biography. There is room for characterization, events on a timeline, geography, and vocabulary. As always, I love to hear when you use the free printables from [...]
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Spelling rules are not the most fun topic of study, are they? Add to their dullness the never ending list of exceptions to the rules, and you’ve got a recipe for confusion. Hopefully these notebooking pages will clear up some of the confusion with their simple layout. Write the rule, and then list both examples [...]
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Here is a dose of two more printable notebooking pages for your study of poetry. These two forms — narrative verse and haiku are featured in A Child’s Introduction to Poetry, a fantastic resource for poetry lessons. These pages can be used for taking notes about the poetic forms, copying sample poems, or composing your [...]
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A Child’s Introduction to Poetry (pictured) is the poetry spine we are using now. It comes with an audio CD so you can listen to the poems in the book because poetry is always meant to be read aloud. The villanelle is a poetic form that I had never even heard of before using this book. It [...]
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As a complement to the lie versus lay and sit versus set pages, I created these notebooking pages about irregular verbs. The first page gives you room to tell what regular verbs are in contrast to irregular ones. There is also room for giving several examples of both kinds of verb. The second page is [...]
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When the lie versus lay pages came out, I had a few requests for more confusing word pairs. So here is the second pair in this series: sit and set. (I have plans to create rise versus raise and affect versus effect as well.) You can sit down and sit up, but you cannot sit [...]
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These printables are first in a new series of poetry pages. We are currently using the book A Child’s Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn About the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles, and Made Us Laugh and Cry. (Talk about a long subtitle! That’s truly ridiculous!) I bought this book at [...]
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Understanding the elements of fiction is a major part of a language arts curriculum. High schoolers should be able to read a novel and write an essay about a character — often called a character sketch. Younger children can begin to think about character using these free notebooking pages. The first page is a graphic [...]
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