A Teacher's Guide to Poets.org
With a special introduction by Education Ambassador Richard Blanco, this brief video guide for teachers highlights the many educational resources available on Poets.org.
materials for teachers
Since 1996, we’ve been providing online resources to teachers to help them bring poetry to the classroom. Here you’ll find poetry lesson plans, essays about teaching, a glossary of poetry terms, and more. And our lesson plans, most of which are aligned with the Common Core, have been reviewed by our Educator in Residence with an eye toward developing skills of perception and imagination.
Poetry in the Classroom Calendar
Take a look at our brand-new Poetry in the Classroom Calendar, a downloadable, interactive PDF designed to inspire ideas for teaching poetry throughout each month, with links to related lesson plans, activities, and other resources.
Dear Poet
For National Poetry Month 2016 we presented Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invited young people in grades five through twelve to write letters in response to poems written and read by some of the award-winning poets who serve on our Board of Chancellors.
Incredible Bridges
“Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community" is a series of lesson plans we’ve developed in partnership with EDSITEment, the educational website of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featuring poetry by U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Naomi Shihab Nye, Claudia Rankine, and others, these poetry lessons plans aim to demonstrate and enhance the role of the humanities in public life.
Teach This Poem
Teach This Poem is a weekly series featuring a poem from our online poetry collection, accompanied by interdisciplinary resources and activities designed to help K-12 teachers quickly and easily bring poetry into the classroom.
lesson plans
lesson plan
Submitted by Madeleine Fuchs Holzer
lesson plan
Submitted by Madeleine Fuchs Holzer
on teaching poetry
on teaching poetry
“Sassy baby.”“Moneys dream monkey dreams.”“The fire is lit and the house is
on teaching poetry
Superstition continues to flourish around the earth even in the face of the
on teaching poetry
I had no doubt that Henry would read his poems that afternoon. He was ready...