About this episode

In this episode, Betsy Potash continues exploring creative poetry activities for National Poetry Month, providing helpful strategies for teaching poetry effectively.

Earlier this month we started to explore creative poetry activity options for National Poetry Month (and any time!). But there were just too many to pack into one episode! I promised you a part II, so this week let's continue our creative poetry fun together. If you've always felt a surge of irritation when you flip your planner to the next week and realize a poetry unit is on the horizon, I believe these two episodes can really help. Let's dive right in. Learn more about I am From poems: https://nowsparkcreativity.com/2020/02/how-to-use-i-am-from-poems-in-class.html Learn more about hosting a poetry slam: https://nowsparkcreativity.com/2017/03/poetry-outside-textbook-slam-jam.html Go Further: Get my popular free hexagonal thinking digital toolkit Join our community, Creative High School English , on Facebook. Come hang out on Instagram . Enjoying the podcast? Please consider sharing it with a friend, snagging a screenshot to share on the 'gram, or tapping those ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to help others discover the show. Thank you!

People in this episode

Host: Betsy Potash

Topics covered

• poetry
• creative activities
• National Poetry Month
• teaching strategies
• poetry unit

Keywords

• poetry activities
• teaching poetry
• creative poetry
• National Poetry Month
• I am From poems
• poetry slam
• poetry unit

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Creative High School English

Books & works: I am From poems, poetry slam

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