ASSESSMENT
Use this rubric when you are having your students write their own poetry. Grading your students work will be easier with…
WORKSHEETS
Students become familiar with the different types of poetry, including clerihew, diamonte, couplet, limerick, list…
Use a teaching guide that helps students analyze the elements of poetry, their responses to the selection, and the craft…
BOOK GUIDES
Download an educator's guide to the 2015 Newbery Medal-winning book The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. In this middle…
Let this printable help you find online, classroom, or library resources for works by Shel Silverstein. This is an…
Have fun with poetry! Students use the missing words to complete rhymes from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald…
This worksheet defines and gives examples of haiku poems, and helps students to write their own. Use this fun activity…
Read about Langston Hughes's, an african american poet who is considered one of the best of all times. This biography…
Administer a quiz that gauges students' knowledge of poetry types and terms. You can use this during National Poetry…
LESSON PLANS
Choose one of Taylor Mali's poems to use in this poetry lesson plan. You will discuss how the poem changes in perceived…
Use the classroom activities in this comprehensive teacher's guide to integrate Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets…
Learn about the birth of America through patriotic poems and songs.
Review these couplets written in iambic pentameter.
In this computer activity, students review acrostic poems and compose their own poem on a PowerPoint slide. Then, they…
In this printable computer activity, students learn about different types of poetry. They practice their word processing…
In this computer activity, students read and discuss a poem, imagining what the world would be like if they were in…
Students write a Fall poem and explore rhyming patterns.
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…
"The Man from Snowy River" is a poem that was adapted into a film and a TV show. In this activity, students will choose…
Students will learn about weathergrams in this poetry activity. They will then write their own weathergram.
Caminar, a novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, is the moving story of a boy who loses…
Students read the poem in this printable titled "Composed on Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth, and then answer…
In this word processing activity, students learn about cinquains and write their own cinquain. Then they illustrate…
