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Coffee House Poetry Day
By Maggie

I have done a Coffe House Poetry reading with my students and it is hugely successful. We work on different types of poetry until Christmas and then send the poems and illustrations off to a publishing company to have them
made into individual bound hard back books.
Then we organize a reading where I set up my room to look like a Coffee House. Students wear beret's, there are white lights hung above the reader, the lights are dim, parents are sitting at tables (desks pushed together) that have table clothes, coffee and hot chocolate are served, jazz music is playing lightly in the background, and

everyone snaps instead of clapping after a poem is read. It is awesome. Parents say it's wonderful. I really enjoy it too! Parents then take home the books that their child has published.
I got this idea from the book: Reading with Meaning.