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How to Haiku: Lesson Plan
Written by Anna Yin and Designed by the League of Canadian Poets. We hope you enjoy this lesson plan available for broad use as an educational material in schools, libraries…
Read More2022 Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poetry Prize Winners
Congratulations to the 2022 Winners of the Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize. The jurors were incredibly impressed with the quality of poems submitted this year, and we thank everyone who shared…
Read MoreNPM 2022: Activities for for children and youth
National Poetry Month April 2022 The theme is intimacy… has that made any parents, caregivers or educators panic? Never fear, the LCP understands that the word intimacy can have a…
Read MoreNPM 2022 Colouring Pages
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Read MorePOETRY AND ACTIVITIES FOR EDUCATORS AND YOUNG READERS
We are absolutely in love with all the librarians and teachers who work day in and day out to put exciting stories into the hands of sometimes-not-so-excited kids, and this…
Read MorePOETRY TO GET THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL
Guest post by Nicole Brewer — I didn’t discover poetry until the summer before my fourth year of university, and as soon as I did I wished I had discovered…
Read MoreHOSTING A POETRY READING
While we all love curling up on the couch with a great book of poetry and a warm cup of tea (or a cool cup of something stronger maybe, in…
Read MorePOETRY WORKSHOP IDEAS FOR TEACHERS
Teaching History with Poetry, Glen Sorestad Identity and Autobiography, Aaron Tucker Canadian Poets Across the Curriculum, Kathryn Bjornson Poetry for Performance, Hilary Peach Contemporary Canadian Poetry-Tasting Hour, Catherine Grahm The…
Read MoreTEACHING FORM POETRY
Introduction “The sonnet might be one of the greatest achievements of human ingenuity; […] it isn’t some arbitrary construct that poets pit themselves against out of a perverse sense of…
Read MoreA TEACHER’S READING LIST
Teaching poetry, and how to write it, can be a daunting exercise the first time. Unlike the tidy step-by-step structures of math or science, poems can feel like obscure jungles…
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