Teaching Ideas

Resource Ideas

  • Share Chris Raschka’s Meet-the-Author Movie describing how concrete poetry—“the yoga of words”—creates images in a new way.

  • Consider this Audio Excerpt from The Crossover by Kwame Alexander to model the nuances of reading poetry aloud.

  • Access lesson and activity ideas in the Educator’s Guide from Teaching Latin America through Literature for Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings.

  • Celebrate award-winning poetry with this list of Lee Bennett Hopkins Award winners.