Create fun games involving poetry. Children may enjoy playing games such as creating poems using the letters of their names; drawing random topics from a hat and creating poems based around those topics; or taking turns reading lines of poetry. Using games to introduce your students to poetry is an effective way to teach poetry without boring your students.
Encourage your students to incorporate poetry into their daily lives. Set writing time aside to allow students to experiment with writing poetry. Suggest topics for students to work with or allow students to come up with their own topics. By making poetry writing a daily activity, you can teach children that the more they write, the better their writing will become. Another take on this exercise is to allow a different student to choose the writing topic each day. This gives your students a chance to exercise their imaginations when selecting topics for poems.
Host regular poetry readings in your classroom. Take time each day to read selected poems to your students. Take turns assigning poetry readings to each of your students or ask students to bring their favorite poems to read to the class. Poetry readings are an effective way to incorporate listening skills, along with the ability to read poetry. Allowing children to select their favorite poems increases student enjoyment of this exercise.