Complicating the canon and empowering students through poetry
Looking for new poetry for your middle school and high school students? These 30 poems, recommended and tested by secondary ELA teachers in their own classrooms, are sure to engage and inspire your students during National Poetry Month or any time of year.
Search the Poetry Foundation's archive of over 13000 poems featuring Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Lord Byron, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Rita Dove, Billy Collins; Find the perfect poem for weddings, funerals, holidays, and more.
Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed. Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year. I have selected the poems you will find here with high school students in mind. They are intended to be listened to, and I suggest that all members of the school community be included as readers. A great time for the readings would be following the end of daily announcements over the public address system. (The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress).
So your students aren't excited about poetry? These 24 poems will give them something to think about and might even change their minds.
Poems Kids Like - Read a selection of poems appropriate for young kids, poems for teens, and poems for the young at heart by such poets as Lewis Caroll, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and more.
In honor of National Poetry Month in April, Matt Davis has put together a list of useful poetry links for educators, including resources from the web, Edutopia's most popular poetry-themed blogs, and other quick reads.
Definition and a list of examples of figurative language. Figurative language is any figure of speech which depends on non-literal meanings.
Get your FREE poems using figurative language, complete with review questions! Aligned to Common Core, formatted for printing and ready to edit! You'll love it.
Definition, Usage and a list of Figurative Language Examples in literature. Figurative language means language in which figures of speech are used to make it effective, persuasive and impactful.
Teach or review literary devices with this figurative language ELA song, accompanied by a printable worksheet.