What is poem in your pocket day

The Favorite Poem Project, cosponsored by Boston University and the Library of Congress, is dedicated to celebrating, documenting, and encouraging poetry's role in Americans' lives. Watch or listen to citizens read poems they love. The Poetry Archive uses digital recordings of a diverse range of poems to help make poetry accessible, relevant, and enjoyable to a wide audience. The site features historic and contemporary recordings and offers resources for students, teachers, and librarians.

Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them. Students select a familiar object online, build a bank of words related to the object, and write theme poems that are printed and displayed in class. Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality. The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets.

Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes. This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems.

Elements of the writing process are also included. 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. We have launched the new ReadWriteThink. Give Feedback. Literacy-Related Event. Participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day! Also on April Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Poetry for Teens.

Lesson Plans. Resources for Teachers. Academy of American Poets. American Poets Magazine. Poem in Your Pocket Day. Here are some ideas of how you might get involved: Select a poem and share it on social media using the hashtag PocketPoem.

Record a video of yourself reading a poem, then share it on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or another social media platform you use.

Email a poem to your friends, family, neighbors, or local government leaders. Schedule a video chat and read a poem to your loved ones. Add a poem to your email footer. Read a poem out loud from your porch, window, backyard or outdoor space. Download Poems for Your Pocket Join the celebration by printing one of the following poems from our downloadable Poem in Your Pocket Day PDF for , which includes a free guide for celebrating in your school, community, or business.

Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter. Teach This Poem. Directions: Print out the butterfly and fill each space with a word or drawing of things that inspire you.

For younger children, simplify the questions and write in their responses. Let them color in the butterfly as they wish. Download: Wings of Words sheet. Skip to content. Posted in Past Events.