Planning for the New School Year
As you’re preparing for the new school year, here are a few of our many free resources to keep in mind:
- A free, downloadable Poetry in the Classroom Calendar
- A video guide for teachers featuring our education ambassador, Richard Blanco
- An essay by our educator in residence, Madeleine Fuchs Holzer, about crafting a poetic sensibility
- Over 170 lesson plans, many of which feature interdisciplinary resources and are Common Core-aligned
- 30 selections of poems curated for young people around specific themes
- Poetry resources for teens, including additional selections of poems
- Essays on teaching poetry
- Instructions on how to create an online anthology of poems to share
In addition, we’d recommend taking a look at these other resources on Poets.org:
- Over 8,500 poems organized by occasion, form, movement, and theme
- Over 3,000 biographies of classic and contemporary poets
- Almost 100 essays about poets and poetry
- Over 100 videos featuring poets in conversation, reading their work, and delivering lectures about literature
- Over 1,400 recordings of poets reading their poems aloud
Finally, don’t forget to sign up for our free weekly Teach This Poem and monthly Educator Newsletter emails for more ways to bring poetry into the classroom year-round!
