The Miss Rumphius Effect: Poetry Makers - Lisa Westberg Peters

Favorite quote on writing/poetry?
Lisa: Guindon, the cartoonist, said: Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

via The Miss Rumphius Effect: Poetry Makers - Lisa Westberg Peters.

This is a great quote on writing shared by Lisa Westberg Peters in her interview on The Miss Rumphius Effect. What a nice way to help students think about their purpose in writing and how we can use writing to clarify our thinking.

Lisa Westberg Peters also shares some of her poems from

Earthshake: Poems From the Ground Up

and I sure wish I knew about them back when I was teaching my earth science unit in 3rd grade! Great poetry to connect with science!