April is National Poetry Month(NPM) - In between all of the testing in April consider a fantastic month long celebration of poetry NPM was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41 You and your students could make a poem of the day book where each day a different student writes a poem. This among many other ideas as seen in the websites I've included in this posting offer many ideas, lessons and resources.
Check out the lessons and ideas to celebrate National Poetry Month provided by Read Write Think. There are lessons and ideas for teachers K-12.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/april-national-poetry-month-20478.html
Scholastic highlights many well known poets such as Jack Prelutski, Karla Kuskin, Maya Angelou, and Shel Silverstein. This has many ideas and lessons available too.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/poetry/
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