This packet includes a famous poem for each month of the school year with a brief biography and picture- from authors such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, etc.Why Poem of the Month?To increase fluency in reading, I have my students memorize a poem each month. They recite it on the last day of the month. The repeated readings of poetry are great for increasing a child’s fluency. The students also love that they have a number of famous poems that they are able to r