As a part of its database collection, the South Dakota State Library offers EBSCOhost's Professional Development Collection. This is a highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians, and education researchers. It contains content from 450 full-text journals and 750 peer-reviewed, full-text journals.
In doing a quick search for how to teach poetry in the classroom, I found a long list of resources! Here are just a few helpful articles:
POETRY IN JOY: Using poetry as a tool for student engagement.
The article focuses on the use of poetry as a tool for student engagement. One significance of incorporating poetry in the classroom is the opportunity for students to engage in the content. Listed are some ways to use poetry in the classroom including celebrating a subject area by sharing a poem, writing a poem to reflect on the class and the subject area and having students create an image or a piece of art inspired by a poem.
Biography and poetry in the classroom.
Recommends books that teachers can use in teaching biography and poetry as literary genres. Reasons for concentrating on a specific literary genre; 'Learning About Biographies: A Reading and Writing Approach for Children,' by Myrna Zarnowski; 'For the Good of the Earth and the Sun: Teaching Poetry,' by Georgia Heard; 'Sunrises and Songs: Reading and Writing Poetry in an Elementary Classroom,' by Amy A. McClure.
Birds of a Feather.
The article presents suggestions for teacher-librarian collaboration centered on poetry and the study of science, specifically a unit on birds. The author recommends "Raptors of the World" by James Ferguson-Lees, "Using Poetry in the Classroom," by Ross M. Gurkhardt, and "Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets," compiled by Paul B. Janeczko. Teachers and the librarian created an interdisciplinary lesson that included a field trip to a nearby raptor center.
A Poetry Coffee House: Creating a Cool Community of Writers.
This article explores the sharing of writing through a coffee house-style poetry reading. Although this article focuses on a workshop and share activity used in a preservice teacher language arts and literacy course, it contains tips and ideas for implementing poetry coffee houses with elementary and secondary school students and preservice and inservice teachers. The coffee house activity with preservice teachers consists of three parts: a discussion about poetry, a poetry writing workshop, and an open mike sharing session. The goals of the coffee house are to broaden preservice teachers' conceptions of poetry, to model poetry writing with students, and to create a venue to share poetry as a community of writers.
Try your own search in the Professional Development Collection to see what else you can find!
