April Poetry Month
National
Share the gift of poetry with your students this month!
April is the perfect time to share a poem with your class - or even write one! It's
National Poetry Month and April 30th is Poem in Your Pocket Day.
I'm not sure what inspired my love for
poetry, but I'm sure a big influence was
Anne (with an e) Shirley. I absolutely
loved these books and thought the movies
were so fun - and romantic! Is it possible
to hear Anne quote The Highwayman
(Alfred Noyes) and not be captivated?
Surely I wasn't the only one who thought
it would be glorious to be Anne floating.
down the river as she imagined herself the doomed heroine of the beautiful
poem the Lady of Shalott (Alfred Tennyson) - even if the boat did sink! It
didn't hurt that she was rescued by Gilbert!
I teach 1st grade and we don't read
Tennyson! However, there are so
Many ways to engage elementary
students in poetry reading and writing
so they acquire a love for words.
Poetry will help younger students
with many language skills including
rhyming, vocabulary and descriptive
words.