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  • Scoring Rubric Poetry for Language Arts and Writing Classes

    ASSESSMENT

    Scoring Rubric: Poetry

    Use this rubric when you are having your students write their own poetry. Grading your students work will be easier with…

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    Poetry Lessons & Activities: Gallery of Worksheets (Grades 6-8)

    Poetry lesson plans for Grades 6-8. The study of poetry can lead your students to new levels of creativity and reading…

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  • Elements of Poetry Workbook

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    Elements of Poetry Workbook

    Use this poetry toolbox workbook to support your students to learn different poetic terms and devices, and then practice…

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  • LESSON PLANS

    Emotion Similes Writing Project

    Examples of emotion similes, and a writing project for using them Learn about how to convey emotion in written…

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  • Types of Poetry Activity

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    Types of Poetry

    Students become familiar with the different types of poetry, including clerihew, diamonte, couplet, limerick, list…

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  • Independent Reading Guide: Poetry

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    Independent Reading Guide: Poetry

    Use a teaching guide that helps students analyze the elements of poetry, their responses to the selection, and the craft…

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  • LESSON PLANS

    Metaphor Unit Poems

    Students learn about metaphors and similes, and write a poem using metaphors.

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    Poetry
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  • TEACHING RESOURCE

    Sample Metaphor Poems

    Use these sample poems to teach the basics of metaphors. A great supplement for a poetry, creative writing, or reading…

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  • Denotation/Connotation

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    Denotation/Connotation

    The vocabulary words used in this lesson stem from realism literature. Students are asked to explore the…

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  • Harry Potter Haiku Handout

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    Harry Potter Haiku Handout

    This worksheet defines and gives examples of haiku poems, and helps students to write their own. Use this fun activity…

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  • Three lesson plans for teaching students how to analyze poems and compare and contrast two poems

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    Comparing and Contrasting Poetry Lesson Plans

    This three-day lesson digs deeper into poetic and literary critical thinking by having students read grade-level lexiled…

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  • Langston Hughes, an Everyday Poet

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    Langston Hughes, an Everyday Poet

    Read about Langston Hughes's, an african american poet who is considered one of the best of all times. This biography…

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  • A student reading poetry in the classroom

    ACTIVITIES

    Poetry Jam! Sub Kit (Grades 7-8)

    The activities in this substitute teacher kit (grades 7-8) will help students write and appreciate poetry.

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  • Poetry Terms Quiz

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    Poetry Terms Quiz

    Administer a quiz that gauges students' knowledge of poetry types and terms. You can use this during National Poetry…

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  • Listening to Poems While Reading Along

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    Listening to Poems While Reading Along

    Choose one of Taylor Mali's poems to use in this poetry lesson plan. You will discuss how the poem changes in perceived…

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  • Birth of America: Sample Page 3

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    Patriotic Poems and Songs

    Learn about the birth of America through patriotic poems and songs.

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  • LESSON PLANS

    Inaugural Poetry

    Review poems read at presidential inauguration ceremonies with this lesson plan. After the presidential election is…

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  • Heroic Couplets

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    Heroic Couplets

    Review these couplets written in iambic pentameter.

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  • Acrostic Poems

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    Acrostic Poems

    In this computer activity, students review acrostic poems and compose their own poem on a PowerPoint slide. Then, they…

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  • Poems, Poems, and More Poems

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    Poems, Poems, and More Poems

    In this printable computer activity, students learn about different types of poetry. They practice their word processing…

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  • REFERENCE

    Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series One

    This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…

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  • WORKSHEETS

    How to Read a Poem

    This student handout will help students to read, understand, evaluate, and write poetry.

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  • Black History Month Profiles: Great African American Poets

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    Black History Month Profiles: Great African American Poets from Across the Generations

    This collection of poems from three highly regarded and important African American poets focuses on groundbreaking poems…

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  • If I Were in Charge of the World

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    If I Were in Charge of the World

    In this computer activity, students read and discuss a poem, imagining what the world would be like if they were in…

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