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Brave Learning: How to Have a Poetry Teatime

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How to Have a Poetry Teatime [Public]

Teatime is THE practice that will transform your homeschool.

Poetry Teatime is the magic you seek for a subject you value!

This Brave Learning post shares everything you need for a successful teatime:

  • The Preparation
  • The Process
  • Tips for Reading Aloud

Enjoy! [More]

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Brave Learning: Poetry Teatime

Brave Learning Poetry Teatime

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Poetry Teatime [Public]

A simple idea with big implications

For as long as I can remember, adults and kids routinely confess a fear of poetry. They say, “Oh I hate poetry. It’s too difficult to understand.” In truth, most people assume they must do something with poetry—analyze it, make meaning from it, find its themes and imagery, identify its rhyme schemes. The provocative rhythms and sometimes old world vocabulary act as barriers to enjoyment, too, for so many smart, successful, fluent adults!Subscribed

Yet somehow I managed to develop a love of poetry from an early age. My grandfather gave me a book of poems to read aloud when I was seven years old. I still have it. I played with words and wrote my own poems on scratch paper and in my diary. Poetry felt like puzzles, riddles, inside jokes, and bursts of music to me. I didn’t worry too much about “getting” it.

When my children were coming along every two years, I hoped to pass my enjoyment of poetry to them. Yet the culture of anxiety around poetry was so strong, I worried they would resist or declare, “I don’t get it!” [More]

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Brave Learning: Babies, Books, and Boats!

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Babies everywhere! [Public]

My book and a new grand baby launch! [More]

Build the Boat 

What teens need and want may conflict with what you envisioned for high school [More]

Writing Prompt: Lost Sleep [Public]

Freewriting is that wonderful key that unlocks the writer within. [More]

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Brave Learning: Spelling, Punctuation, My Kid Hates Writing, and more!

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Just how important are spelling and punctuation anyway? [Public]

This is the last of our series on writing voice. [More]

Help! My Kid Hates Writing [Public]

Turning Struggling Students into Brave Writers [More]

Writing Prompt: The Great Sock Debate [Public]

Freewriting is that wonderful key that unlocks the writer within. [More]

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Brave Learning: A Lively Voice, Disarming Your Teens, and more!

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Fill the “house” with a lively voice! [Public]

Here’s the third part of our series on writing voice. [More]

Hello! 👋 [Public]

A recording of Julie’s live video. [More]

Disarming Your Teens

What a cup of coffee will do… [More]

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