Enjoy this lively collection of poems for English language learners around the world, either in classes with a teacher, or as independent students. These poems help express feelings and ideas about language, culture, food, fun, and fairness for one and all. Beginners to more advanced students and their teachers can move past communication barriers with open hearts and minds, and learn grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and idioms.

These poems and suggested lessons will inspire learners and teachers to understand, discuss and write about different ideas with respectful curiosity. Mindful notes, lessons and information about Social Emotional Learning for language learners are included with the teachers’ notes and lesson ideas.

As a student reader from Brazil says, “Poetry is a great way to inspire and motivate people. Something about the rhythm and the rhymes captivates our hearts and these poems have the power to communicate that to any English language learner.