Denver kindergarteners learn to express themselves through poetry in new DPS initiative

Denver Public Schools kindergartners embarked on a poetic journey through the Kindergarten Poetry Project, learning ...
Springfield News-Leader

Poetry from Daily Life: Know a child struggling to learn to read? Poetry can help

In his blog, “The Power of Patterns in teaching,” published in The Robb Review, Oct. 4, 2022, Dr. Timothy Rasinski explains that English has many word-patterns that can be used to teach reading. In ...
Sun Journal

Learning to speak English through poetry

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. AUBURN — Edward Little High School English Language Learner students showed ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore

Commentary: The power of learning poetry by heart

SINGAPORE: Have you spotted poetry splashed across the train during your morning commute? More than a hundred poems by Singapore writers are now featured on some SMRT trains and stations on the Circle ...
Hartford Courant

POETRY BRINGS ART TO LEARNING

When D.J. Renegade wrote his first poem at age 8, it was to express his anger and pain following the shooting death of his best friend’s father. That was when his love for writing began. Renegade ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Learning the basics helps you hit that poetry slam

BETTENDORF -- Public-speaking jitters hit 16-year-old Tiffany Trujillo like a ton of bricks. But with some coaching and care, the Pleasant Valley High School sophomore read her poem, ``My New Best ...
Education Week

Persisting With Poetry in the Common-Core Era

Most Fridays, Mary Lee Hahn, a 5th grade English and language arts teacher at Wright Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, has her students pick a poem and recite it to the class. She’s been doing this ...
The Conversation

‘I remember, I remember’: what’s the point of learning poetry?

Debbie Pullinger receives funding the Leverhulme Trust. David Whitley receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Arts & Humanities Research Council. He has also received funding from the ...