Do you ever feel like your teacher assigns way too much homework? Do you wish it didnt take so long, or that there was an easier way to do it? My bookWhen the Teacher Isnt Lookingcontains about 50

Do you walk to school? Ride your bike? Take the bus? Or does your mom drive you to school? Where else does she drive you? Do you play a sport or take lessons after school? If you want to go to the store to buy something, does she drive you there?

I love chocolate. Dont you? I mean, doesnt everybody? When I was a kid, my favorite Halloween treats were always chocolate candy bars like Hersheys, Snickers, and Three Musketeers. After Halloween

There’s a word game I like to play now and then called “Change One Letter.” The object of the game is to change a word, one letter at a time, to make it morph into a completely different word. Each time you change a letter,

Every October, I love to write a few monster poems and Halloween poems. This one is a fun little story about what would happen if an ogre came to your house for dinner. When I write, I often like to play with the rhythm of the words and the rhyme schem...

The word “hot dog” is a is an interesting one with several different meanings. Most commonly, it is another word for a frankfurter or wiener. Frankfurter, by the way, means “from Frankfurt.” Frankfurt is a city in Germany. Similarly,

I love a good joke and I love a good limerick. This poem isn’t quite a limerick because the first line doesn’t rhyme with the second and fifth lines, but it’s close; it has the same rhythm and length, and almost the same rhyme scheme. So,

When I was in elementary school, I spent a lot of time learning to make silly faces and strange voices. I taught myself how to wiggle my ears, raise one eyebrow at a time, and pucker my lips like a fish. I learned how to talk like Donald Duck and Micke...

List poems can be so much fun to write. All you need is a beginning and an end, and then you can make a list in the middle as long or as short as you like. Shel Silverstein’s poem “Sick” and Jack Prelustky’s “Bleezer’s Ice Cream” are a couple of classi...

I recently added a lesson to poetry4kids showing different ways write a poem using repetition. You can repeat entire stanzas, creating a chorus or refrain in the poem. You can repeat lines, as Robert Frost famously did at the end of “Stopping by Woods ...