Each year the month of April is set aside as , a time to celebrate poets and their craft. 起点传媒fosters excellence in children’s poetry by encouraging its publication and by promoting ways to acquaint teachers and children with poetry. For instance, 起点传媒established its in 1977 to honor a living American poet for his or her aggregate work for children ages 3鈥�13. collects poems by winners of this award.
The ReadWriteThink.org podcast series, , celebrates by recommending a . Featured titles include themed collections of poetry compiled for teens as well as collections of poetry written by teens. Also mentioned is the novel written in verse.
Students examine a letter of the alphabet from all angles, creating image pools of original metaphors that they then turn into poems in the ReadWriteThink.org lesson ““. This lesson is written by John S. O’Connor, author of 聽 and .
In , authors Stephen Dunning and William Stafford offer 20 exercises covering different types or phases of poetry writing. The authors’ humor and nonacademic style will appeal to experienced and novice poets of all ages.聽Read the chapter on “.” See similar from .
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Check out idea: create a basketball tournament-pairing chart using poetry and determine a final winner by reading the poems. Locate 64 poems and pair them off, just like basketball teams. Read two poems each day and let the students vote on the “winner.” Keep going until you have a final four and the final winner!
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How are you celebrating National Poetry Month with your students?