Residencies and Workshops
For Students in Grade 3

How can we bring poetry to life? How do we use inferencing to write and interpret poetry? How do we write a poem? This residency is team-taught; Ms. Kerrigan teaches the drama and the classroom teacher teaches the poetry forms such as diamante, quintain, haiku, and free verse. Students engage in dramatic, imaginative activities that provide sensory-kinesthetic experiences that give the impetus to write poems using sensory details, descriptive language, and figures of speech. They practice performing their poems aloud with expression and movement.