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April is National Poetry Month. What a perfect time for students to increase their essential skills in reading, writing/presentation, and critical thinking by reading and writing poems. The following subjects provide student and teachers with a variety of information about poets and poetry, and also with poems. Click the Subject search option and type poetry in the Search box to get the list of links to the subjects below.

Notice that some of the subjects provide themes for writing poetry. After reading poems about different themes, students should be able to compose simple poems that reflect one these themes:

Classical epic poetry
History and poetry
Humorous poetry
Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry
Nature in poetry
Poetry and children
Poetry and history
Poetry and music
Poetry and science
Poetry for children
Poetry slams
Poetry, Authorship
Poetry, Black authors
Poetry, Explication
Poetry, History and criticism
Poetry, Modern
Poetry, Philosophy
Poetry, Technique
Poetry, Themes, motives
Poetry, Therapeutic use
Political poetry
Reading poetry aloud

An alternative way for teachers to provide classroom examples of poems for students to read and study is to print selected poems and make copies for classroom use.

1. Click the Fiction link on the right side of the Search page.
2. Click the Poetry link.
3. Click the Sort by Lexiles link on the results page to get poems with appropriate reading levels for your students.

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