Poetry Unit Wrap-Up Activity 4: "Publishing"

Give your students options. Have them publish their best work by:

• submitting it to a newspaper or magazine


• reading it at a coffee house or in another public forum


• displaying it in a public place


• giving it as a gift to another person


• printing it on a shirt or a mug


• putting it on a website

Show students there are many forms of "publishing."

Poetry Unit Wrap-Up Activity 1: Coffee House

Have a class coffee house (or even better a school-wide coffee house) where students can read out poems written by themselves or by others.

Parents and the community could be invited to participate as audience members.

Sharing a Poetry Notebook

Here are a few ideas for ways that students can share their poetry notebooks:

1. Pass notebooks to the person to the left of them to read silently for 5 minutes. Then the books can be passed again for as many times as the teacher would like.


2. Visit a school or class of younger students and read poetry notebooks to the kids there.


3. Read their favorite poems out loud to the class. This could be done as a coffee house or poetry slam.


4. Place poetry notebooks in the classroom and/or school library.