One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

When you remember a poem, you learn it so well that you can say it out loud perfectly. There are ways you can remember a poem more easily. Think about the story that the poem tells. You got it!

Read the poem aloud again for a second time. What do they think the poem is about? How do they know? Underline words or phrases in the text that help them to work out the meaning of the poem.

What do you need to fly a kite ... The voice is where the energy of the poem comes from, and that’s the sense that someone is actually speaking, one with all of a real live person’s quirks ...