Create Personal and Living Poetry Anthologies: A Tip for Tomorrow from Stacey

Two Writing Teachers Podcast

Learn about two engaging ideas for National Poetry Month, which begins on April 1. Stacey shares a bit about creating a collaborative "Living Poetry Anthology" where students curate poems to display throughout the school. Next, she discusses developing personal poetry collections featuring their work, inspirational poems, and reflections on poems they admired. Make poetry come alive for your students – listen now!

TWTBlog Posts

• A Breakthrough In Poetry: How To Bring Playfulness to Every Genre
• Building a Living Poetry Anthology
• It’s Alive!
• Starting the Year: Poetry
• The Doors of Poetry: Guest Blog Post by Sarah Mulhern Gross

Resource List

• Academy of American Poets
• Awakening the Heart, second edition by Georgia Heard
• National Poetry Month
• Poetry Mentor Texts: Making Reading and Writing Connections, K-8, by Lynne R Dorfman and Rose Cappelli
• Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

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