April is National Poetry Month which makes it a great time of year to add some poetry lessons into your homeschool. Poetry offers the opportunity to stretch creative writing muscles. It also can provide children who may struggle with writing reports and prose a chance to excel in a different writing style.
In my house, we are reading a few poems a day and then working on writing poems. You may also wish to work on memorizing a poem or two if that is not already part of your homeschool curriculum.
Some resources for reading poetry include:
Poems to Learn by Heart – Caroline Kennedy
A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children – Caroline Kennedy
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children – Jack Prelutsky
The Harp and Laurel Wreath – Laura Berquist
A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson
Saintly Rhymes for Modern Times – Meghan Bausch
Poems for Children – https://poets.org/poems-kids
Children’s Poetry Archive – Listen to poems read aloud.
Poetry4Kids.com offers a large number of poetry writing lessons (with examples):
- How to Write an Acrostic Poem
- How to Create Book Spine Poetry
- How to Write a Cinquain Poem
- How to Write a Clerihew
- How to Write a Concrete or “Shape” Poem
- How to Write a Diamante Poem
- How to Create a “Found Poem”
- How to Write a Free Verse Poem
- How to Write a Haiku
- How to Write a Limerick
- How to Write a Sonnet
- How to Write a Tanka Poem
- How to Write an Alliteration Poem
- How to Write an Apology Poem
- How to Write a “Backward” Poem
- How to Write an Exaggeration Poem
- How to Write a “Favorite Things” List Poem
- How to Write a Funny Epitaph Poem
- How to Write a Funny List Poem
- How to Write a Traditional “Mother Goose” Nursery Rhyme
- How to Write a Fractured Nursery Rhyme
- How to Write an “I Can’t Write a Poem” Poem
- How to Write an Onomatopoeia Poem
- How to Write an Opposite Day Poem
- How to Write a “Playing With Your Food” Poem
- How to Write a Repetition Poem
- How to Write Riddle Rhymes
- How to Write a “Roses are Red” Valentine’s Day Poem
- How to Write a Silly Song Parody
- How to Write a Tongue Twister
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