For National Poetry Month or any time of the year, read poetry daily to your kids. It doesn’t have to be poetry specifically written for kids either. Unfortunately, my kids weren’t excited about the whole poem a day idea of mine. At all. So first, I found poems they would like and second, found poems they […]
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9 New Poetry Books
Happy Poetry Month! Do you read poems with your children and students? If you’re looking for inspiring poetry books to read with your kids, see what you think about these new releases. Read the poems out loud, savor the word pictures, consider the meanings. Enjoy! “. . . poems hide. In the bottoms of our […]
Unlocking Poetry for Kids with Art
Introducing poetry to my kids didn’t go exactly like I planned. My kids weren’t loving the poems or even understanding what they were reading. So I needed a way to unlock poetry for my kids — and I found it through art. Poetry can seem so strange. What in the world are these poets talking […]
Why I Read Poetry to My Toddler
by Robin Merrill, a freelance writer who can usually be found blogging at uBaby, a site dedicated to helping every woman have a healthy pregnancy. My son just turned two. Every time he sees something that he considers beautiful, he exclaims, “flower!” I can’t even articulate why this brings me so much joy, but somehow, it […]