![What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1911_0.jpg?h=dc62bef8&itok=L-YJueOs)
In honor of National Poetry Month in April, tune in for recommendations of a variety of poetry books for teens.
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The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.
![Black Poetry Day is celebrated.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1223_0.png?h=ceda6631&itok=PKCcSHCQ)
![Poetry: A Feast to Form Fluent Readers](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1973.jpg?h=63bf57a8&itok=NVnoPCgJ)
![April is National Poetry Month!](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1144_1.jpg?h=73cca598&itok=AFDpDGPz)
Students are assigned to be "poets of the day" and are provided several models to create, illustrate, and present their different poems to the class.
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Let children practice using different types of words in a fill-in-the-blank-story game before making their own word list for a magnetic poetry set.
![Today is World Poetry Day.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1224.jpg?h=ba5ca9cf&itok=2pktfiax)
Students read and respond to Billy Collins' poem "Introduction to Poetry." Students then write about a favorite poem and imagine the perfect way to read it.
![Language and Literacy: The Poetry Connection](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/626_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=Ct-Sqzkn)
![United States Congress officially adopted the position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 1985.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/70.jpg?h=15c5cba9&itok=F1G1-Q0B)
![Developing Aesthetic Criteria: Using Music to Move Beyond Like/Dislike with Poetry](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/161_0.jpg?h=9eb0d413&itok=Tsi5cK3P)
![Examining History with Maya Angelou's Poetry](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/97.jpg?h=affafdcc&itok=LzZn42sX)
To understand the historical background that influenced Maya Angelou's poems, students research events to produce trading cards using the ReadWriteThink Trading Card Student Interactive. Through the sharing of these trading cards, students understand the historical background as they analyze Angelou's poetry.
![Performing Poetry](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/443.jpg?h=5198e285&itok=M0sIW-oJ)
![Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1900_0.jpg?h=fa1c963e&itok=igLG9JL-)
![Teaching Poetry in High School](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/682_2.jpg?h=9329b2f7&itok=od648mz3)
![The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1384_0.jpg?h=fee4874d&itok=Ikly-7lD)
![Talking Poetry with Blabberize](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/262.jpg?h=4ca9cb25&itok=Fc6M9RiL)
Students will be motivated to share their poetry through an online tool the features recording and animation.
![Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/677_2.jpg?h=cba516b9&itok=OUyqlhqV)
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After reading a book or magazine, children and teens can choose a section and transform it into what's known as a "found poem."
![Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School Students](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/659_2.jpg?h=c2ee0dd9&itok=9GZN7QiA)