WORKSHEETS
Have fun while teaching kids about voice in poetry! In this poetry worksheet, students read six verses selected from the…
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.
Students recite a poem as a way to practice oral speaking.
Create your own chants and poetry about ecology, and make posters of them.
ACTIVITIES
This themed packet of reading and writing activities focuses on America's youngest Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. It…
Try a library-skills activity that focuses on evaluating and selecting books.
Numerous language arts activities on vocabulary, letter writing, poetry, and reading comprehension extend and enhance…
Students write a poem about eating, using the words provided.
After being inspired by reading Change Up: Baseball Poems, a book filled with poetry about baseball, students pick their…
LESSON PLANS
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…
After reading a poem and a non-fiction book, students will identify whether a series of statements are true or false.
Use this poem to help students distinguish the cause effect relationships developed in the poem, and predict what…
By exploring a variety of poems, students will learn poetic techniques in this two-day lesson.
Students make lists of the don'ts they have heard in their lives, and they make them into a poem!
Increase social studies skills with an activity that has students writing a poem about being an American citizen.
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Celebrate Christmas in your classroom with some of the classic books and poems that honor the season. Our literature…
Try a printable poetry activity that focuses on writing a haiku about the characteristics of living things.
Bring attention to domestic violence and the damaging effects of silence through the pre- and post-reading discussion…
Stage this reader's theater in your classroom to further children's enjoyment of the nursery rhymes in Rufus and…
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…
Students use the five senses to describe their favorite color. Plus, they explore the color wheel by solving color…
