TEACHING RESOURCE
By Clement Clarke Moore 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was…
WORKSHEETS
As summer approaches, use this printable from Last Day Blues to discuss what made this school year special. Have…
Students will write a jingle to advertise their favorite products. The writing process involves creating rhyming lines…
LESSON PLANS
After reading the Christmas poem A Real Santa Claus by Frank Dempster Sherman, students will complete a cloze activity…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Students will learn about alliteration, couplets, haikus, limericks, acrostic poems, and much more. All of these…
ACTIVITIES
A great way to reinforce or supplement a poetry lesson or unit! In this activity, students are asked to analyze a poem…
This creative writing activity supports elementary school students on their first day of school and helps teachers get…
Teach students to use a KWL and a Who, What, When, Why, Where, and How Charts to extract important details about a text.
This packet of strategies and tools for teaching poetry to ELLs will help ESL educators focus on building language arts…
In this poetry activity, students identify the characters in the poem, the setting, and the main events; and predict…
BOOK GUIDES
This teaching guide for A Child of Books includes activities, projects, discussion questions, printables and games that…
Have your students unscramble these poetry vocabulary words. Then, ask them to define each term.
Students write poems about animals – in the shape of their subjects! This printable activity will inspire creativity in…
This lesson plan is designed for 3rd grade but can be used in grades K-5. Students will read the definition of poetry,…
Thirteen of the most popular nursery rhymes are collected here.
Students match a short quote from the poetry book Button Up! with the article of clothing that "spoke" the verse. This…
Explore the world of poetry during National Poetry Month with this collection of activities. Make a poetry pocket for…
Share these ten poetry tips for writing a good haiku with your students.
Poem activities, math problems, a word search, and an art activity are some of the fun resources in this printable…
Students illustrate a poem wile predicting what will happen in each stanza.
Use this poem to teach students about interpreting metaphor and fantasy in poetry. I Dreamed I Was a Snowman is a great…
Students will immerse themselves in the poems of Emily Dickinson by writing, researching, drawing, and more.
In this poetry activity, students attempt to determine the main idea the author wishes to present.
Use this poem to teach students about responsibility.