April is National Poetry Month – another great reason to get your children reading. Some ways to encourage your children to start enjoying poetry are:
Hand your kids one poetry book this month. A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky and Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein are perennial favorites
Check out novels in verse. The National Book Award winning memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson and Love That Dog by Sharon Creech are two fine examples.
Encourage your children to write their own poems. Children usually enjoy writing haikus, 3 lines that are 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables respectively.
And, of course, take your kids to the library and let them choose their own poetry book to take home!