April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

Joseph Coelho looks at how poems make you feel and what what they mean to you in a Key Stage 2 Primary English video resource.

These brief, impressionistic poems about the seasons are all titled with a day of the year, journal-like. Fogliano (“And Then It’s Spring”) begins on March 20: A bird is in a snow-covered ...

Poet and educator Nile Stanley shares a story — and the poem it inspired — about a student recital during tough times.

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.

Three Black kids wrote poems that were animated for a new CBC series called Dreams in Vantablack.

Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a Division of Random House. This article originally appeared on Springfield News-Leader: Poetry from Daily Life: Poems can teach kids strength, resilience ...

Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, Ethan Hawke and Ada Limón.