April is National Poetry Month. National Poetry Month was established to increase the visibility and appreciation of poetry in our culture. Many schools incorporate National Poetry Month into their curriculum for April. Bring added excitement to your classroom by integrating online poetry resources into your lesson plans.
Both the Elementary and Secondary sections of netTrekker offer a variety of educator-selected online resources on the topic of poetry that can enhance your instruction, including lesson plans and learning exercises, information about individual poets and their works, collections of poems, audio clips of poetry readings and much more. Improving language and literacy skills through the use of poetry is a goal that can be accomplished by all grade levels!
Here are a few suggestions to help you locate resources for National Poetry Month in netTrekker.
| • | Keyword
search* Simply type in poetry, poet, poems, National Poetry Month, or the name of a particular poet into the keyword box. If you are looking for lesson plans or learning exercises, you can filter your search results by clicking on the appropriate tabs. By clicking on Refine Search, you can refine your search to include only those websites with a particular type of multimedia content, such as audio or video. |
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| • | Subject
search* You can drill down through the topics in the Language Arts section to locate poetry resources. Click on Language Arts, then on Literature, then click on Genres and Literary Forms, and finally click on Poetry. If you would like to view a list of famous poets, click on the Famous People button below the list of poetry topics in this section. Clicking on any of the names in the list will allow you to access websites about the individual. In addition, clicking the timeline icon next to any of the names in the list will take you to a timeline of that individual’s lifespan with additional information about arts, innovations, discoveries and other famous people that made contributions to that time period. |
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| • | Cross-curricular
search Clicking on the Cross-Curricular button at the top of a list of search results will provide websites on your topic or keyword (poems, poetry, poets, etc.) but with a cross-curricular application. Students can learn about poetry while studying Social Studies or Math. What a great way to integrate literacy and learning across multiple subjects! |
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