Get Outstanding Poetry from Kids With 4 Simple Skills

Inside: Use poetic devices to teach poetry writing lessons that will get your elementary students writing poetry in no time. There’s a little-known secret about teaching poetry writing that will blow your mind. I’m sure you’ve got a few kids in your class that would rather drop their pencil on the floor forty times in…

A Week-Long Poetry Unit

Problem: I would love to study poetry with my class but I’m not sure how to go about it. Solution:  Read on!  Here is a way to structure a week-long study of poetry: Preparation – Choose a few poems for you kids to work on all week.  For 2nd graders I would choose 4 to 7…