5 Reasons to Add Poetry in Your Writing Instruction

Let’s talk about poetry. I feel so bad for poetry. It gets the short end of the stick. It isn’t an area of real concern in common core writing, and we tend to gloss over reading it. We assign it to one month of the year, if we teach it at all. Sometimes we recite poems near the holidays with our kids, or instruct students to write an acrostic for Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day, but honestly, poetry writing and reading has been largely left out of many modern classrooms. That said, poetry is beautiful, expressive, and a fun way to play around with language. Being able to read and…