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Fun Ways to Celebrate World Poetry Day
Help your kids appreciate poetry, a unique and vibrant part of Literature, with these fun ways to celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21st or throughout your homeschool year.
Use Your Words!: Exploring Concrete Poetry
Use Your Words!: Exploring Concrete Poetry – Playful Learning
My Hippo Has the Hiccups: And Other Poems I Totally Made Up (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
Hooray! Hooray! It’s New Year’s Day – Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com
30 Poetry Project Ideas for Any Time of the Year!
30 fun POETRY project ideas for any classroom! Get your students' creative juices flowing with these fabulous ideas
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Looking for fun activities to explore the art of poetry and use it to support language learning? Try these simple and fun activities. See more in my previous posts on poetry: ICE ICE, BABY: WRITING...
5 Tips for Creating Blackout Poetry
5 Tips for Creating Blackout Poetry | Power Poetry
Shakespeare's Love Sonnet 130
Using Shakespeare's works in the EFL classroom may appear risky as we all know how baffling they can be even to the native speakers. However there is no reason why we should deprive our students of the pleasure to experience some of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets...
"I am Poems"
An icebreaker activity to use with students you already know from previous years. What they have to do is write a poem about themselves following the "I am Poems" format.
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"Home" by Warsan Shire. Contains pictoral cinepoetic renderings and analysis. Audio is author reading her own work. .
You HAVE To Try Black-Out Poetry.
I recently saw a great idea on Pinterest: black-out poetry. When I tried it with my class recently, it worked really well; my students enjoyed the lesson and it was particularly effective at devel…