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Top 10 Totally Fun Teaching Ideas for National Poetry Month

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Take Your Poet to School Hanging Mobile

You’ve got the whole month of April to celebrate National Poetry Month. We’ve got the cut ‘n color poets and top 10 teaching ideas—for you to make it the most fun and informative thirty days ever!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

5 Sumptuously Fun Ways to Spend Poet in a Cupcake Day!

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

It’s Poet in a Cupcake Day! Check out our fun ideas for celebrating, with real cupcakes or a fun printable. Both go wonderfully with our cut n’ color poets.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Bring in the Cupcakes! It’s Take Your Poet to School Week

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Poet in a Cupcake Day Cover

It’s Take Your Poet to School Week! Celebrate with themes such as Talk Like a Poet Day, Poet in Your Math Book Day, and of course, sweetest of all, our new public day: Poet in a Cupcake Day!

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Shel Silverstein

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Shel Silverstein Take Your Poet to School

Celebrate Take Your Poet to School Week “where the sidewalk ends.” Shel Silverstein makes his debut for next week’s big event.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Shel Silverstein, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Mother Goose

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Mother Goose Take Your Poet to School Week Cover

Even the mythical poets are getting in on the fun of Take Your Poet to School Week. Today, Mother Goose hops on a stick and makes her debut.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, Mother Goose, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Ogden Nash

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Cover Ogden Nash

Our preparation for this year’s Take Your Poet to School Week continues with the light and whimsical poems of Ogden Nash.

Filed Under: Blog, Ogden Nash, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School: Robert Louis Stevenson

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Robert Louis Stevenson cover

Don’t let the folks with briefcases have all the fun. Join in the brand new celebration of Take Your Poet to School Week with our fun cut ‘n color poets on a stick.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

Fun Reading Activities: Color & Trace “The Mare is On the Merry-Go-Round

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Merry go round featured image

Early readers Molly and Joe want to help a child learn to read. Learn fun facts about merry-go-rounds and take a spin writing a limerick, along with this fun reading activity coloring page.

Filed Under: Learn to Read, Limerick, Literacy, Literacy Starts With Love, Molly and Joe Want to Know

Fun Reading Activities: Color & Trace “The Monkeys Have Marshmallows”

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Molly and Joe Monkey Marshmallows

Early readers Molly and Joe want to help a child learn to read. Learn fun facts about marshmallows and write a gooey limerick, along with this fun reading activity coloring page.

Filed Under: Books, Literacy for Life, Literacy Starts With Love, Molly and Joe Want to Know

Top 10 Best Limericks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Far from the girl from Nantucket, this collection of 10 best Limericks from our community features iguanas, a ’74 Barracuda, and a bonus letter from Santa (on Spain).

Filed Under: Blog, Limerick, poetry

What Poems Are Good For (Or, What to Read When You Can’t)

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

What to Read park bench with leaf

What does a person read when a whole books feels like too great a commitment? This is what poems are for (well, one thing).

Filed Under: poetry, Reading and Books

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Dip Into Poetry dandelion fluff

Take a little dip into poetry with us, and enjoy some favorites from our daily sharing of Every Day Poems selections on Twitter, line by single line.

Filed Under: Blog, Dip into Poetry, poetry

Born to Be Good: Laughter Might Be the Best Medicine

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Born to Be Good toddler laughing

Come laugh with us as we wrap up our book club discussion of Dacher Keltner’s Born to Be Good.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Born to Be Good

Born to Be Good: The Right Kind of Smile

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Born to be good smiling women

The smile is like social chocolate. Join us for this week’s book club discussion of Dacher Keltner’s Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life.

Filed Under: book club, Born to Be Good

How We Spent Our Poetry at Work Day

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Sunset Brooklyn Bridge Poetryat Work Day

We celebrated Poetry at Work this week in libraries, theatres, coffee shops, and government offices. We celebrated on ships, in the street, and probably even on the moon.

Filed Under: Blog, Poetry at Work

Born To Be Good: The Jen Ratio

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Born to be Good book club - glasses and pear

In our first Born To Be Good book club discussion, Dacher Keltner introduces the jen ratio, a means of measuring the “millisecond manifestations of human goodness.”

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Born to Be Good

Poetry at Work Day Infographic

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Poetry at Work Day Featured Cover

Share our 2018 Poetry at Work Day Infographic with your coworkers and get ready to celebrate on January 9. They’ll thank you come performance review time.

Filed Under: Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day

Book Club Announcement: Born to Be Good

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Born to Be Good book club blond toddler with jewelry box

Join us for our upcoming book club where we’ll be discussing Dacher Keltner’s Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, and the way that positive emotions define our humanity and contribute to the common good.

Filed Under: book club, Born to Be Good

2018 Poetry at Work Day Poster

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Poetry at Work Day Poster 2018

Poetry at Work Day is soon approaching. Get ready to celebrate poetry in your workplace and download our new free Poetry at Work Day poster.

Filed Under: poetry, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Dip Into Poetry jewels on leather

Take a little dip into poetry with us, and enjoy some favorites from our daily sharing of Every Day Poems selections on Twitter, line by single line.

Filed Under: Blog, Dip into Poetry, Twitter poetry

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