NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — According to the dictionary, a Poetry Slam is a competition using elimination rounds for the reading of poetry. Recently, Explore Community School in East Nashville held its ...

Hurricane Michael hit one year ago, but the memories of that day are still fresh in the minds of children. "I was huddled in a room with all of my family and all of my pets and we kept on hearing ...

Writing a touching tribute to his homeland, a Springfield 4th grader has won top honors in a statewide poetry contest. Nhat H. Nguyen, a student at Mary M. Walsh Elementary School, submitted his poem, ...

Whether it’s crisp cash or fresh grass covered in morning dew, 10-year-old Jett Bittner knows green. The fourth grader at Plum’s O’Block Elementary School recently placed first in Allegheny County and ...

CHICAGO - The children - Muslim, Jewish and Christian - sat crossed-legged, shoulder-to-shoulder recently, brainstorming ways to practice charity. 'Smiling!” a young boy called out. 'Helping someone ...

The fourth graders in Jeremy Lowe’s class at Atlanta’s Parkside Elementary School are on a tight deadline. They have only five minutes to write a dramatic “warm-up play” with characters, a setting, ...

As they learn how writers revise their work and use literary devices, the students gear up for a school assembly led by Australian rap star Nelson Dialect When superstar Taylor Swift writes a song, ...

As Múinteoir John mentioned in the lesson, a limerick is a silly, funny poem with five lines. Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, an English author who wrote the "Book of Nonsense" in the ...

San Diego teacher Amy Glancy thought she’d prepared her fourth-grade students for the day’s language arts lesson. She knew there was a land mine in the poem she planned to read, but she considered it ...

CHICAGO — The children — Muslim, Jewish and Christian — sat crossed-legged, shoulder-to-shoulder recently, brainstorming ways to practice charity. “Smiling!” a young boy called out. “Helping someone ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Greg Pincus, who lives in Los Angeles, California. He says he has been “writing steadily since 4th grade, when I went from making birthday cards for my ...