Resource Roundup: April is National Poetry Month

Resource Roundup: 

April is National Poetry Month

Poets.org National Poetry Month Resources

Here are 30 ways to celebrate National Poetry Month at Home or Online. Here are 30 ways to celebrate in the virtual classroom. You can also sign up to receive a Poem a Day in your email inbox. 

K-12 Poetry Lesson Ideas from ReadWriteThink

Choose from Lesson Plans, Student Interactives, and/or Mobile Apps to plan activities to celebrate National Poetry Month. 

Discovery Education Poetry Channel

Log in with your district Google account to view lesson starters, videos, video segments, images, reading passages, and activities by grade band (K-12) for teaching poetry. 

Poetry Activities on Seesaw

Choose a Poetry activity on Seesaw to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Pear Deck & PBS News Hour: Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem "The Hill We Climb"

This Pear Deck is geared towards middle and high school scholars and covers Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb" and another poem "The Miracle of Morning."

Easter Magnetic Poetry

Click for an awesome Easter Magnetic Poetry template made by Edutech for Teachers. 

Eric Curts' Great Googley Poetry Projects

Eric Curts has created some awesome poetry resources. Included in this link are resources for magnetic poetry, random poetry writing prompt generator, emoji poetry, poetry templates, and blackout poetry (in Google Docs).

Poem Portraits

Google Arts & Culture and Es Devlin have created an AI and human collaboration where you can donate a word to an evolving collective poem. You then have the option to take a picture of yourself or have it create an image for you. Your poem snippet (based on the word you donated) will be at the bottom of the picture.  

30 Ideas to Celebrate National Poetry Month

Here are thirty easy ideas for how to celebrate National Poetry Month. Choose one or choose one for each day of April. 

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poem Farm

The Poem Farm is a site chock full of poems and ideas for teaching poetry. 

TED-Ed's There's a Poem for That: Season 1

There's a Poem for That is a TED-Ed YouTube playlist of videos that pair contemporary &/or classical poems with animation. There are some other great poems if you search the TED-Ed YouTube channel.

Poetry Foundation Educator Resources

The Poetry Foundation has articles, Poem Guides, and videos to help you teach about poems and poetry. 

7 Free Poetry Resources

Here are seven free printable activities for folks who are in person, Hybrid, or HyFlex. Just know that you will need to make the printable activities interactive for any scholars who are remote learning. TeacherMade seems like a perfect tool to make these resources interactive.

Do you have any great Poetry resources? If so, please share in the comments below.