Teaching preschool kids about basic shapes can be both fun and engaging when it’s done through songs and poems. Learning and identifying these shapes helps children develop their spatial awareness, ...

Write that poem! Dr. Mary Jo Fresch is an Academy Professor and Professor Emerita in the School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.

Teacher’s Day Poems 2024: In India, September 5 is observed as Teacher’s Day every year. Teacher’s Day is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of renowned scholar and educator, Dr ...

Her Haiku for You, a thin volume of 101 haiku for children, was published this summer. Mrs. Finley’s haiku deal with such close-to-childhood subjects as kites, tadpoles, animals and birthdays.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

In her latest book, Poems to Learn by Heart, Kennedy stresses the importance of memorizing poetry and presents a collection of poems that she believes kids and adults alike should internalize.

Lockdown Poems from Children Across the World Experiencing Life During COVID-19 Since March 2020, the lives of billions of children been turned upside down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Today, ...

As he writes on his website: "He really, really, really wants to write children's books." For more about Bliss and to hear two of his poems, watch my video interview with him.

Poetry can be fun. "When you write poems with kids, you see how immediately they get this," Matthew Burgess says. "If you read a poem aloud to kids, they start to dance in their seats." ...

Caroline Kennedy isn't just an advocate for reading poetry. In her latest book, Poems to Learn by Heart, Kennedy stresses the importance of... Listen Share May, 02 2013 (Talk of the Nation) ...