This poem can be a resource for teaching children about the role women played in Black history. By exploring Maya Angelou’s thoughts when she was writing this poem, readers are reminded of ...

April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

Putting Poetry in Kids’ Grasp. An entire book of poems about chicken soup with rice! That’s nice, but many children, like my students, are also keen to search out poems on topics like cars ...

Chesca added that as a mom, she is also her kids' teacher, and that will "nurture their minds, help them grow and explore." She ended her poem with a promise: “I'll always be there, for my children, ...