I'm embarrassed to admit that I used to think of poetry as boring or rambling. Or silly rhymes in a sing song pattern.  Never before has...

Poetry is an often forgotten genre of reading in the classroom.  I know I've been guilty of bypassing reading it to my students. With mo...

Anyone else tired of reading acrostic poetry? It seems as if it is the only "poem" format that my students know and resort to agai...

You know how there are some lessons that are just magical? Well. . . Poppies and Pantoum Poetry by my friend, Tracy, at Wild Child Designs ...

Wow! You know how sometimes you “try out” a new lesson and everything just clicks? That was our day today! I’ve been wanting to teach per...