National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, 30 days of celebrating the joy, expressiveness, and pure delight of poetry.
Explore Rhyming with Sesame Street's Sons of Poetry
PreK-K
The perfect rhyme DOES exist! Celebrate National Poetry Month in style with the Sons of Poetry as they circle their bikes to help the poets find the ideal rhyme. You can encourage your young learners to explore poetry and practice rhyming using this hilarious parody video.
This video segment from Poetry Everywhere incorporates animation in soft swirling color to illustrate Emily Dickinson's poem "I started Early—Took my Dog." Use Dickinson’s writing about the changing nature of the sea to help your students explore themes of adventure, escape, and the depths of the self.
If your students are needing a little inspiration when writing a poem, what could be better than getting inspired by famous poets themselves? "Verse By Verse" is a Google tool that uses artificial intelligence to provide suggestions based on the writings of classic American poets to help you write your own poem. Here is how is works...
First, go to the website at: https://sites.research.google/versebyverse/ and click "Let's write a poem".
Next select three poets you would like to write with. There are 22 poets for you to choose from, and as you choose each, you can learn about them and read some samples of their work.
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🧲 Drag and Drop "Magnetic" Poetry
Magnetic poetry kits have been around since the early 90’s, providing children and adults with inspiration to create poems on refrigerators everywhere. As fun as those magnetic kits are, they have some limitations. By using a technology option, such as Google Drawings, you get many benefits:
No limit on the quantity of words provided. Just copy and paste more of them as needed.
Great tech skills practice with dragging and dropping and copying and pasting.
Ability to edit the words provided if needed.
Ability to add your own words.
Easy collaboration with others.
Easy to share or download your final creation.
No pieces to get lost.
It’s free!
Below are several Google Drawings templates created over time for variously-themed drag-and-drop "magnetic" poetry activities. Feel free to use these with your students. You can even make copies and then make changes to create your own themed versions for different holidays, seasons, or events.
Wintertime Magnetic Poetry template - Google Drawing link
Springtime Magnetic Poetry template - Google Drawing link
Valentine Magnetic Poetry template - Google Drawing link
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