ASSESSMENT
Use this rubric when you are having your students write their own poetry. Grading your students work will be easier with…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Poetry lesson plans for Grades 6-8. The study of poetry can lead your students to new levels of creativity and reading…
WORKBOOKS
Use this poetry toolbox workbook to support your students to learn different poetic terms and devices, and then practice…
LESSON PLANS
Examples of emotion similes, and a writing project for using them Learn about how to convey emotion in written…
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…
Students learn about metaphors and similes, and write a poem using metaphors.
TEACHING RESOURCE
Use these sample poems to teach the basics of metaphors. A great supplement for a poetry, creative writing, or reading…
BOOK GUIDES
Download an educator's guide to the 2015 Newbery Medal-winning book The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. In this middle…
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…
ACTIVITIES
The activities in this substitute teacher kit (grades 7-8) will help students write and appreciate poetry.
Administer a quiz that gauges students' knowledge of poetry types and terms. You can use this during National Poetry…
Choose one of Taylor Mali's poems to use in this poetry lesson plan. You will discuss how the poem changes in perceived…
Review poems read at presidential inauguration ceremonies with this lesson plan. After the presidential election is…
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…
Children practice storytelling and write a narrative poem.
In this printable computer activity, students learn about different types of poetry. They practice their word processing…
REFERENCE
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…
This student handout will help students to read, understand, evaluate, and write poetry.
Photo of the Old South Meeting House in Boston; Phillis Wheatley was a member of the congregation.
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers tried and true techniques for bringing poetry into the lives of…
Teach your students how to write a narrative poem based on a prose realistic fiction selection using this detailed…