HUNTINGTON — Explorer Academy’s fourth graders performed “Slam Poetry,” inspired by famous authors for parents and onlookers Friday morning in Pullman Square. Tiffany Elkins, a fourth grade teacher at ...

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 ...

Poet MC Hyland’s chapbooks include “Every Night in Magic City” (H_NGM_N, 2010), “Residential, As In” (Blue Hour Press, 2009) and “the hesitancies” (Small Fires Press, 2006, with Kate Lorenz and ...

Newton County Schools announced the winners of the District Literacy Days Recitation, Drama, Read Aloud and Ready Writing ...

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 ...

Lexi Hirsch, center, was presented with prizes for the Riley Festival Fourth Grade Poetry Contest. She’s pictured with her teacher, Kristie Satterfield, and Rhonda Cook, a Riley Festival board member.

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, ...

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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 ...