LESSON PLANS
Read this poem about a hairy dog, then have students compare and contrast the dog in the poem with other dogs they know.
ACTIVITIES
This themed packet of reading and writing activities focuses on America's youngest Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. It…
WORKSHEETS
Explore plant growth and ratios in the human body through math and science activities for "Me and My Giant" by Shel…
Integrate Sharon Creech's Love That Dog and Hate That Cat into your poetry unit with this teacher's guide. This packet…
Author Betsy Franco suggests ways to use Messing Around on the Monkey Bars and Other School Poems for Two Voices in your…
Plan a story time with the reading instruction and extension activities in this guide for Earthshake: Poems from the…
Students will learn about weathergrams in this poetry activity. They will then write their own weathergram.
Create your own chants and poetry about ecology, and make posters of them.
BOOK GUIDES
These poetry lesson starters showcase the variety of ways poetry can be used to reach a range of learners with different…
Caminar, a novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, is the moving story of a boy who loses…
After being inspired by reading Change Up: Baseball Poems, a book filled with poetry about baseball, students pick their…
In this word processing activity, students learn about cinquains and write their own cinquain. Then they illustrate…
Students make lists of the don'ts they have heard in their lives, and they make them into a poem!
After reading a poem and a non-fiction book, students will identify whether a series of statements are true or false.
Use this poem to help students distinguish the cause effect relationships developed in the poem, and predict what…
Students will write an acrostic poem from the name of a winter holiday: "Christmas," "Kwanzaa," or "Hanukkah." This is…
This assortment of activities will help your students to love nursery rhymes. These activities follow along classic…
This discussion guide for Applesauce Weather includes questions suitable for in-class discussion or reflective writing,…
This Christmas mini-project, focused around the classic holiday poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, is perfect for…
This packet of reading, writing, and poetry Christmas printables based on the poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, is…
This resource provides 4 poetry strategies and 3 poetry printable activities for how to teach poetry to elementary…
The poems in Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems explore the social and emotional issues facing middle-school…
Share with your class these 26 original works by celebrated English and American poets. Students will extend their…
Have fun teaching your students about poetry with questions, writing assignments, and drama activities that extend and…
