Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read. Even children who struggle in learning to read can achieve success in learning ...

Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read. Even children who struggle in learning to read can achieve success in learning ...

For children, exploring the world, it really has an immediacy as well as sounds, rhythm and rhyme. Wallace Stevens said that poetry is intended to help us live our lives.

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 ...

It’s a poetry lesson with Bill Buczinksy. Mucking around, clowning around, grabbing kids’ attention and focusing it on rhythm and rhyme is the specialty of this former high school English ...

Kwame Alexander's new book is a collection of original poems written in the style of 20 famous poets. The aim is to introduce kids to great poetry — and encourage them to write poems of their own.

Foundation President John Barr said her poems “tease young minds even as they please young ears with rhythm and rhyme.” At an event in Chicago on Oct. 7, the foundation presented Hoberman as ...