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Resources for National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month.  Consider the following ways TeachingBooks.net can help you to prepare:

  • To discover new authors of poems, books of poetry, and multimedia resources related to poetry, browse the entire TeachingBooks.net collection of poetry resources.
  • Use the Guided Search page to narrow your search by grade level and curricular area (hint: make sure to select “Poetry” under choice of genre).
  • Already know just which poets you’ll feature? Search for them in the purple search box to discover the Author Program videos, lesson plans, and Author Websites that may be available for you to share with students to enhance their connection with poets and poetry.
  • Lastly, there’s nothing like hearing poetry performed aloud. Use online Book Readings of poems to bring talented readers and, sometimes, the poets themselves into your classroom so students can hear the rhythm and pace of a poem while it is read aloud. Browse audio clips of over three hundred poems for all ages! You’ll find Chris Raschka, Robert Frost, Dr. Seuss, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman, Edgar Allen Poe and many, many more!

Extra Credit: Do you know what a “Heroic Crown of Sonnets” is?  Use this one-page PDF document to learn about this style of poem as explained by award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson and try it out with your students.

Posted by Danika L. Morphew-Tarbuck, MLS, Web 2.0 Content Producer

19 March 2009 | Featured Resources,Searching TeachingBooks | Tags: , , , , ,

One Response to “Resources for National Poetry Month”

  • 1 Danika Morphew-Tarbuck Says:
    March 19th, 2009 saat: 2:57 pm

    Did you know that educators can now submit comments/tips on how they used a resource on TeachingBooks.net or what activities they use with a certain title? Here’s a great tip on the poetry book Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems (Harcourt, 1998) submitted by Suzanne Shearman, a librarian from Brockport, New York:

    We use Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems & the accompanying video/dvd with second grade students usually at the end of March (Music in Our Schools Month) and the beginning of April (National Poetry Month). Before we start reading, we have already gone through nonfiction facts about penguins. I read parts of the book and have the students act out some of the poems. The poem “Penguins’ First Swim” (complete with fabric water) is a favorite.

    Since we’re combining music and poetry, the video/dvd that accompanies this book has been a real plus. I stand near the TV and show the book as we listen to each poem set to music. Students get the connection between the book and video. “Antarctic Anthem” is a sure fire hit as well as “Penguins’ First Swim”. I really liked how they left the “bloopers” in at the end as the credits roll. You get the impression the singers really enjoy their work. We finalize with a compare and contrast.

    If you would like to read helpful tips like this one and also submit tips about your own experiences using the resources on TeachingBooks.net, please sign up for the Tip Team.

    http://www.teachingbooks.net/show.cgi?f=beta_signup

    Note: We have a only handful of tips so far, so your help is needed to add tips to the site, with the goal that we can all collaborate and share experiences about how to invigorate and energize students’ connections to books and reading.

    Questions? Email me, Danika, at: danika@teachingbooks.net, or call (800) 596-0710

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