LESSON PLANS
Students get to know each other through a poetry writing activity.
WORKSHEETS
Students will write a jingle to advertise their favorite products. The writing process involves creating rhyming lines…
Use this template when writing a bio poem, a great format for students to write creatively about themselves and get to…
ACTIVITIES
This collection of ideas will help students to love poetry from creation to recitation.
After reading the Christmas poem A Real Santa Claus by Frank Dempster Sherman, students will complete a cloze activity…
A great activity for Poetry Month, creative writing classes, or a language arts unit. Students practice writing poetry…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Poetry is an ideal way to help students with fluency and to appreciate the beauty of words. Use these activities to help…
Students will learn about alliteration, couplets, haikus, limericks, acrostic poems, and much more. All of these…
A great way to reinforce or supplement a poetry lesson or unit! In this activity, students are asked to analyze a poem…
Let this printable help you find online, classroom, or library resources for works by Shel Silverstein. This is an…
This creative writing activity supports elementary school students on their first day of school and helps teachers get…
Find suggestions for creating dinosaur-related poetry.
Students use words from newspapers and magazines to make "found" poetry. This is a great way to teach students about…
Teach students to use a KWL and a Who, What, When, Why, Where, and How Charts to extract important details about a text.
TEACHING RESOURCE
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.
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.
REFERENCE
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…
After reading "The Planet of Mars" by Shel Silverstein and The Planets in Our Solar System by Franklyn M. Branley,…
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…
