Teach This Poem Vol. I is now available!

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July 2024

Teach This Poem Volume I: The Natural World
Out Today!

Published through Routledge’s Eye on Education series and collected together for the first time in print, these Teach This Poem lessons offer accessible entry points to teaching poetry in the classroom, inviting readers to reflect on the natural world through prescient and urgent poems.  

Aligned with current standards and pedagogy, the lessons in this book will inspire educators and their students alike. 

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poems for July 4

Reflect on America’s history or indulge in the nostalgia of Fourth of July fireworks with the following poems that are appropriate for young people:

In Our Late Empire, Love” by Malachi Black
America, I Sing Back” by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Dear America” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
I, Too” by Langston Hughes
The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key
For Black Children at the End of the World—and the Beginning” by Roger Reeves
Good Night” by Carl Sandburg
Fireworks” by Edith Sitwell

poems and lessons for summer

Happy Summer! 

Browse kid-friendly poems and lesson plans about summer by poets such as Nikki GiovanniLi PoMark Twain, and others.

 

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