It's National Poetry Month: Let's Teach Poetry

Thanks to everyone who joined me at the Nerdy Book Club last night. What began as an idea to encourage people to teach poetry during National Poetry Month grew into a full-on event when my Nerdy friends invited me to post the live video on their Facebook page. Wow!In case you missed it, I'll try to embed the video at the bottom of this post.As promised, here is a list of some of the books I recommended in the video. Plus a few extras. These are all poetry books, except where noted.Extending Your Onomatopoeia Lesson:The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth: A Celebration of Music, Jaime AdoffThe Louds Move in!, Carolyn Crimi (non-poetry picture book)Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat, ed. Nikki GiovanniThe Raven, illus. Ryan PriceForest Has a Song, Amy Ludwig VanDerwaterWhen Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat, Muriel Harris WeinsteinAlso Mentioned:Once Upon a Poem: Favorite Poems that Tell Stories (Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" is in this anthology)Poe: Stories and Poems, adapted by graphic novelist Gareth HindsLove to Langston, Tony MedinaI and I Bob Marley, Tony MedinaPolka Bats and Octopus Slacks, by wordplay master Calef BrownMirror Mirror, Marilyn SingerEcho Echo, Marilyn SingerBooks with Poetry Writing Prompts:The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary (you'll find the sound riddle prompt that goes with last night's lesson on page 240).Gone Fishing, Tamera Will WissingerThe Poetry Friday anthology series, Sylvia Vardell and Janet WongWhat Else Was on My Shelf?:Some of the books I use for my poetry residencies...Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, ed. Georgia HeardDreaming Up: A Celebration of Building, Christy Hale (great example of concrete poetry)Sports Pages, Arnold AdoffLove that Dog, Sharon Creech (verse novel)Neighborhood Odes, Gary SotoPoetry Speaks Who I Am, ed. Elise Paschen (my favorite anthology for middle schoolers)A Limited List of Other Favorite Poetry Books:(I'll come back and add a screen shot of my bookshelves later)I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat, Donald Hall (great for teaching opposite poems)A Bad Case of the Giggles, ed. Bruce LanskyAdditional Resources:March 31 Poetry Friday round-up at The Poem FarmLaura's Shoe Odes Workshop at Woven Tale PressLaura's Persona Poem Workshop at Today's Little Dittyand ... in case you need to make a case for poetry at your school, here is my Baltimore Sun op-ed piece, "Does poetry have a place in the Common Core?"