National Poetry Month

April is just around the corner.  April is National Poetry Month, and the Academy of American Poets website has a lot of great ideas about celebrating poetry.   Check out the Resources section of their web page: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41

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National Poetry Month

This neat, easy and FREE idea for National Poetry Month:  http://100scopenotes.com/2010/03/30/poetry-month-gallery-student-book-spine-poems/. 

Book spine poetry:  students create poetry from titles on the spines of the books on library shelves. This could be fun & creative wordplay also for English language learners who are just becoming familiar with the language — plus, it gets them to actually look at the books and discover the collection.  Titles can be mixed and matched in whatever way the poet desires.

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