LESSON PLANS
Teach your students how to write a narrative poem based on a prose realistic fiction selection using this detailed…
In this computer activity, students read and discuss a poem, imagining what the world would be like if they were in…
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers tried and true techniques for bringing poetry into the lives of…
Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.
REFERENCE
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…
WORKSHEETS
Students read the poem in this printable titled "Composed on Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth, and then answer…
"The Man from Snowy River" is a poem that was adapted into a film and a TV show. In this activity, students will choose…
BOOK GUIDES
Caminar, a novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, is the moving story of a boy who loses…
Students write poems in different styles, such as Haiku and couplet.
Students will learn about weathergrams in this poetry activity. They will then write their own weathergram.
ACTIVITIES
This themed packet of reading and writing activities focuses on America's youngest Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. It…
Students will write an acrostic poem from the name of a winter holiday: "Christmas," "Kwanzaa," or "Hanukkah." This is…
In this word processing activity, students learn about cinquains and write their own cinquain. Then they illustrate…
By exploring a variety of poems, students will learn poetic techniques in this two-day lesson.
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Celebrate Christmas in your classroom with some of the classic books and poems that honor the season. Our literature…
Enrich your math and science curriculum with activities for "An Extraterrestrial Alien" by Jack Prelutsky and "Our Earth…
MAPS
Develop students' math and social studies skills will literature-based activities for A World of Wonders: Geographic…
Learn about the life and works of Russian writer Alexander Pushkin with this word search.
Study the life and work of John Keats, one of the greatest 19th-century English poets. This resource includes…
Study the Battle of Bannockburn through this poem by Robert Burns.
Read this biography to learn more about Wilfred Owen, one of the great English poets of World War I.
The Bollingen Prize in Poetry is a $50,000 award, given biennially, from 1949 to present-day.
This discussion guide for Applesauce Weather includes questions suitable for in-class discussion or reflective writing,…
This alphabetical list of poetry terms and vocabulary includes definitions and examples of the most common and important…
