WORKBOOKS
Use this poetry toolbox workbook to support your students to learn different poetic terms and devices, and then practice...
ACTIVITIES
To celebrate Poetry Month, this resource shares 3 activities that will help high school students to engage with poetry i...
TEACHING RESOURCE
By Clement Clarke Moore 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirri...
REFERENCE
In this poetry reading comprehension activity, students will read an interview with Jose Garcia Villa about his “Lyric 1...
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Poetry lesson plans for Grades 6-8. The study of poetry can lead your students to new levels of creativity and reading c...
ASSESSMENT
Use this rubric when you are having your students write their own poetry. Grading your students work will be easier with...
This alphabetical list of poetry terms and vocabulary includes definitions and examples of the most common and important...
LESSON PLANS
WORKSHEETS
Students will write a jingle to advertise their favorite products. The writing process involves creating rhyming lines a...
Examples of emotion similes, and a writing project for using them Learn about how to convey emotion in written communic...
Students become familiar with the different types of poetry, including clerihew, diamonte, couplet, limerick, list poems...
Use this template when writing a bio poem, a great format for students to write creatively about themselves and get to k...
Poetry lesson planning for grades 9-12. The study of poetry can lead your students to new levels of creativity and readi...
Use a teaching guide that helps students analyze the elements of poetry, their responses to the selection, and the craft...
Poetry is an ideal way to help students with fluency and to appreciate the beauty of words. Use these activities to help...
A great activity for Poetry Month, creative writing classes, or a language arts unit. Students practice writing poetry u...
Use these sample poems to teach the basics of metaphors. A great supplement for a poetry, creative writing, or reading c...
BOOK GUIDES
Download an educator's guide to the 2015 Newbery Medal-winning book The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. In this middle gra...
Students will learn about alliteration, couplets, haikus, limericks, acrostic poems, and much more. All of these activit...
A great way to reinforce or supplement a poetry lesson or unit! In this activity, students are asked to analyze a poem f...
Read about Langston Hughes's, an african american poet who is considered one of the best of all times. This biography ta...
The vocabulary words used in this lesson stem from realism literature. Students are asked to explore the denotated/conno...
