NPM Day 10: Poetry Programs for Kids

Outreach Visits to Elementary Classrooms 

• 2012: Animal Poetry (In the Wild by David Elliott, If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky) and Riddle Poetry (If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky, Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles by J. Patrick Lewis, Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow by Joyce Sidman) 
• 2013: Selections from I've Lost My Hippopotamus by Jack Prelutsky, The Underwear Salesman and Other Poems for Better or Verse by J. Patrick Lewis, and Please Bury Me in the Library by J. Patrick Lewis. See full details here. 
• 2015: Bird Poetry (On the Wing by David Elliott and Today at the Bluebird Cafe by Deborah Ruddell)
• 2018: Selections from Something Big Has Been Here by Jack Prelutsky, World Rat Day by J. Patrick Lewis, and If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky
• 2019: Selections from some of my favorite poets (Deborah Ruddell, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, and Joyce Sidman). See full details here. 

Poetry Programs for Private School Classes and Homeschool Groups 

• 2016 and 2017: Poetry Egg Hunt, Book Spine Poetry, Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from One Word by Bob Raczka, Poetry Tag, Acrostic Name Poem, and Riddle Poems
• 2012: Poetry Introduction for 1st-3rd grade. See full details here.

Poetry Special Events

• Poetry Break Storytimes
• 2011: Animals. See full details here.
• 2012: It's Raining Cats and Dogs. See full details here.
• Poetry Picnic (2024): Food theme poems and snacks. See full details here.

Resources

• Activities for Forest Has a Song on the author's website
• Activities for With My Hands on the author's website
• Reader's guide and activity guide for Red Sings from the Treetops on the author's website
• Reader's guide for Ubiquitous on the author's website
• Reader's guide for Butterfly Eyes on the author's website

Links to My Reviews

• Forest Has a Song
• Read! Read! Read!
• With My Hands: Poems about Making Things
• Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from One Word
• In the Wild
• On the Wing
• The Popcorn Astronauts and Other Biteable Rhymes
• Today at the Bluebird Café: A Branchful of Birds
• A Whiff of Pine, A Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems
• Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles 
• The Underwear Salesman and Other Jobs for Better or Verse
• If Not for the Cat
• I've Lost My Hippopotamus