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This essay was written researching a genre of writing I was unfamiliar with, poetry. The essay describes my experience as a poetry writer as well as the research and implementation of poetry into my own first grade classroom.

While getting my advanced degree I choose to narrow my focus from just education to literacy. This essay highlights what is important to me as a teacher of literacy and what I have learned throughout my career as a teacher and student in the Master's of Arts in Education.

A teaching blog is a place to reflect and record the work being done in a classroom by the teacher. For this blog I reflected on my practices of the use of Interactive Read Aloud in my first grade classroom. Included in the blog you will find lesson plans, student work, and personal reflections.

One goal I have had is "to gain a deeper understanding of the role of technology in my classroom as well as learn how to apply it to my teaching". Through this goal I have been able to learn technologies to use when making a lesson for learners of the 21st century. This is a Words Their Way lesson with added technologies. You can also read about my journey exploring new technologies in my blog Ms. LaPerriere's Tech Guide by clicking the underlined title.

Personally, one of the most beneficial things a teacher can do is study, learn, and understand their students. This project shows the work I did with one student taking a closer look at them as a learner in literacy. I was also given the opportunity to do this with another student as well here.

This power point presents the beginning stages of how to get started using the Writer's Workshop model. The presentation includes different aspects of the balanced literacy model including student pictures and work inspired by Lucy Calkins.

By clicking the link above it will lead you to an online study guide for the instructional text Words Their Way, a new approach to word study. Included in the study guide are summaries of each chapter, online resources, classroom examples, and training videos.

Teaching Poetry Project

Teaching Reflection Blog

Words Their Way Study Guide

21st Century Lesson Plan

Analysis of Student Data

Workshop Presentation

Literature Position Statement

Genre Exploration

I strongly believe that you have to practice what you preach. That holds true for me as a teacher too! In this project you can read about my journey as a student learning to write poetry. In the end it taught me what it is like for my students as writers of poetry.

SWITCHING ROLES: FROM TEACHER TO STUDENT

The following are eight pieces of work that I completed during the courses of study in the Master of Arts in Education program. My advanced degree focused heavily on literacy and that refelcts in the many projects I present below. My greatest accomplishement through the program was getting the chance to be both a student and teacher and finding the common thread between the two. These projects reflect that accomplishment.