Tweet, Repeat, Rhyme: Using Social Media and Poetry to Help Students Use Life Literacy to Make Genuine Connections

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Using social media to connect to classrooms in other cities, states, or countries to share poetry that merges from autobiographical to broader topics that involve expanding cultural, historical, media, and print literacy. Kids can write poetry about themselves, conduct research is write it about their world, and study mentor texts. Comment on published poetry. Use poems to connect with literary and source texts. Build community and cross-cultural understanding with kids in other classrooms by sharing poetry and responses about their lives.