Poetry - This Is Me poems for back to school

Hello Friends,

My poetry unit called, This Is Me, works really well hand-in-hand with either of the following 2 art lessons.
One year, I tried the half portraits inspired by Kathy Barbro of Art Projects for Kids Here are some more of the portraits drawn by my Y4 kiddies at the start of the year.

I just love how these turned out !

The second one is my back to school portrait unit - This Is Me! inspired by the art of Eden Gosier. You can get this comprehensive lesson tutorial from my TPT store One Teacher's Journey - HERE.

It is also available from my website - Help Me Learn - HERE

What other teachers have said about This Is Me!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Excellent, easy to follow instructions with beautiful examples to inspire."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This was comprehensive and easy to use. Thank you!"

I also use by Biography poetry lesson early in the year as we all get to know each other. It's a great way to become familiar with our differences and to see how unique we all are. Also, to identify the things that we have in common.

This Is Me poems provides an extensive framework that students fill in easily, as its all about themselves. By extending their ideas and exploring synonyms, they edit and improve the images through a 1-3-6 conferencing model. Finally, they select and reject lines to form and publish their unique poems. I have used this model for several years now and always with great success, which is why I wanted to share this idea. Hope you enjoy using it too :)

This comprehensive poetry writing guide can be up shared on large screen with your students as you work through the steps to write great and personal poetry. A teacher model poem is included, one I wrote as a model about my daughter a few years ago, when I first taught this to my class. 

Find this lesson plan in  my TPT store One Teacher's Journey - HERE.

It is also available from my website - Help Me Learn - HERE 

These 2 items are now also available as a bundle from TPT - HERE

What other teachers have said about the Bio POEMS teaching guide

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 'Great for start of the year writing.'

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 'This was a great resource for our poetry unit. Students enjoyed it!'

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 'Awesome product, thanks.'

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