Golden Shovel Poetry
Teach your students the delightful poetry format of the Golden Shovel that will pique their imaginations!
Writing
Fighting Words Poetry Contest from the Pulitzer Center
Help your students to make sense of current events and connect in a personal way with poetry by using materials from the Pulitzer Center.
The Pen Pal Project
Three more days to sign up for the USPS Pen Pal writing project for students in 3rd-5th grades!
Coding with Poetry
Read about one of the new tutorials for Hour of Code that teaches how to combine computer science and writing poetry!
The End of the Year As We Know It
Update 5/10/2022: Here is the link to this year’s blog post, where I highlight a few other End of the Year activities. A couple of weeks ago, I shared some of the activities that I’ve done in the past with my students as the school year comes to a close. I decided to put them … Read more
LatiNext Poetry Project
April is National Poetry Month in the United States, and it is not too late to celebrate! You may remember when I posted about the Teach Living Poets site way back in January right after being blown away by Amanda Gorman’s recitation of the poem she wrote for the Inauguration. Scott Bayer (@LyricalSwordz), who contributes … Read more