April is Poetry Month

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016

I have added this page from an awesome free blog called Free Technology for Teachers written by Richard Byrne. He has awesome resources, and frequently updates his blog/FB page with free technology resources and ideas for teachers. The below post is a repost from his page.

Check it out and post in the comments if you try any of activities or use the poems in your class.

ReadWorks Offers a Nice Set of Poems and Guiding Questions for Poetry Month.

ReadWorks is one of my favorite nonprofit services for teachers. ReadWorks offers hundreds of lesson plans and thousands of non-fiction and fiction passages aligned to Common Core standards. Additionally, each article is listed with a Lexile score and suggested grade level.

ReadWorks recently released a new set of poems and guided reading questions. The collection has poems appropriate for students in middle school and high school. Each poem in the collection comes with a set of questions that you can give to students to answer individually or simply use as a group discussion guide.

Applications for Education
One of the aspects of ReadWorks that I like is that lexile scores are listed for each article. ReadWorks makes it easy to find fiction and non-fiction articles that are appropriate for your students.

With a free ReadWorks account you can search for lessons and reading passages by grade level, lexile score, reading skill, subject area, and text type (fiction or non-fiction). In your ReadWorks account you can create digital binders of the lesson plans and reading passages that you want to use.