Let the Preparations Begin!

Ideas to Get Them Writing:

Color Poem--Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting

Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing

What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles

Found Poems/Parallel Poems

A Poem of Possibilites: Thinking about the Future (Connect to March Madness!)

Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"

Go To the Source of all things National Poetry Month:

Academy of American Poets

National Poetry Month Resources

Free National Poetry Month Posters

Get a Poem-a-Day in Your Email

Out of the Old Pods, Into the New

Even though we no longer live in the pods of the original high school structure, there is a new pod that we can all enjoy--podcasts. Podcasts are audio programs meant to be downloaded and listened to on your computer or on an MP3 player. Grammar Girl does this format one better by also making a transcript available--so you can really see the finer details of the discussion. You can also subscribe through various means and receive the newest podcast automatically--there are links on her website for this.

Grammar Girl article

Grammar Girl website