Teaching Ideas
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National Poetry Month
Celebrate National Poetry Month with TeachingBooks!
Include award-winning poetry titles in your planning and recommendations:
Scaffold instruction and build connections to texts in differentiated classrooms using our customizable Poetry Multi-Leveled Lessons
Find inspiration with titles and resources from these curated lists:
- Poetry Essentials: Selected Books for Children and Teens
- Colorful Poetry: 22 Diverse Picture Books for Kids
- Check out titles and resources on these secondary “Got Text Complexity? Poetry Books: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-10, Grades 11-12
Select poets from the Young People’s Poet Laureate list and have each student do an author study. Click through to explore name pronunciations, Meet-the-Author Recordings, books by that author, and more!
Plan a poetry tasting using our Reading Diner activities. Readers can sample the menu, then rate and review their selections.
Try our One-a-Day Poetry Reflections as a bell-ringer activity or a quick way to feature poetry in your daily classwork.
Browse our entire Poetry Collection and use filters to narrow down by grade level, cultural experience, and more!
Explore two different levels of teaching ideas to use in your classrooms and learning environments to celebrate and explore poetry!
