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…
The vocabulary words used in this lesson stem from realism literature. Students are asked to explore the…
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…
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…
This student handout will help students to read, understand, evaluate, and write poetry.
In this computer activity, students read and discuss a poem, imagining what the world would be like if they were in…
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.
In this word processing activity, students learn about cinquains and write their own cinquain. Then they illustrate…
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.
Share these poems through daily podcasts or readings with your students and enjoy poetry during National Poetry Month in…
