National Poetry Month Ideas

UPDATE 3/22/2022: For a list of over 50 Poetry Activities, see this collection! I also have a special collection on Amanda Gorman!

April is National Poetry Month.  Here are a few poetry activities I’ve done in the past that I felt were really worthwhile:

• Parallel Poetry
• Blackout Poetry
• Poetry Pairing
• Interactive Onomatopeia
• Interactive Bulletin Board
• I Love You the Mauvest

Also, if you are looking for an awesome new-ish poetry book for kids, here is my review of I’m Just No Good at Rhyming by Chris Harris.

ReadWriteThink offers two tools for writing Haikus (an interactive site and an app).

I’m not especially fond of Acrostic Poetry (it usually turns into a list, rather than a poem), but here are some ideas to make Acrostics a bit more rigorous, especially for gifted students:

• Acrostic Poems with a Twist
• How to Write a Dueling Acrostic Poem
• Acrostic Limericks

Or, how about acrostic poems where both the initial and the final letters of each line spell a word?

Here are 30 other ways to celebrate National Poetry Month from Poets.org.

For your own amusement, if you have a Twitter account, check out Poetweet.