Poems and Lesson Plans for Back to School

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August 2023
As the summer ends and a new school year begins, share the following poems for back-to-school, and browse more kid-friendly poems

Give Yourself Some Flowers” by Marcus Amaker
The Creative Drive” by Catherine Barnett
We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
& After the Power Came Back” by Brenda Hillman 
The World Book” by Patricia Hooper
Breaking Free” by Stuart Kestenbaum
The Testing-Tree” by Stanley Kunitz
Nonsense Alphabet” by Edward Lear
The Sentence” by Nathan McClain
Apples” by Grace Schulman
Tall Ideas” by Adam Wolfond

Bring poetry into your classroom with the following lesson plans for introducing poetry:

The Creative Drive” by Catherine Barnett
On How to Use this Book” by Sarah Gambito
the poem is a dream telling you its time” by Marwa Helal
Ars Poetica” by Archibald MacLeish
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely [Mahalia Jackson is a genius.]” by Claudia Rankine
The Hand” by Mary Ruefle
Teach This Poem returns on September 4. Produced for K-12 educators, Teach This Poem features one poem a week, accompanied by interdisciplinary primary sources and activities designed to help teachers quickly and easily bring poetry into the classroom.

Sign up and get a new lesson plan every Monday. Browse more than three hundred past lessons, and check out the five most popular lessons from the 2022–23 school year: 

June Sunset” By Sarojini Naidu
Moonlily” by Marilyn Nelson
Reflections” by Ameen Rihani
Once the Magnolia has Blossomed” by Ed Roberson
Sea Of The Poem (An Annex So We May Dream Backwards)” by Raquel Salas Rivera
 
Summer: Poems for Kids
School: Poems for Kids
Competing with teams across the globe, Houston’s official youth poetry slam team, Meta-Four Houston, won the international youth poetry slam, Brave New Voices 2023. This is the first time Houston secured the coveted title. Outspoken Bean (Houston’s Poet Laureate Emeritus) and Alinda Mac (Meta-Four alumna and Writers in the Schools writer) coached the six teen poets. Read more about the team’s victory.
On Saturday, May 20, former Texas poet laureate and 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow Cyrus Cassells honored the winners of What Juneteenth Means (To Me), a poetry contest for Texas students in grades eight through twelve that encourages exploration of the events that make Juneteenth such a significant holiday. 

Read the first-place winner Samiyah Green’s poem, “The Pantoum,” in the July/August issue of the The Texas Observer
 
Teachers, thank you for your work in bringing poetry into the classroom year-round. We’re happy to be able to offer hundreds of free lesson plans, essays, and other resources, and we wish you and your students health and safety.
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