WORKSHEETS
Students recite a poem as a way to practice oral speaking.
Create your own chants and poetry about ecology, and make posters of them.
BOOK GUIDES
These poetry lesson starters showcase the variety of ways poetry can be used to reach a range of learners with different…
Caminar, a novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, is the moving story of a boy who loses…
April is National Poetry Month, but poems are fun year-round! Explore the world of poetry with activities for Poem Runs:…
Have fun while teaching kids about voice in poetry! In this poetry worksheet, students read six verses selected from the…
Encourage creativity with this Curious George poetry activity. Children read an acrostic poem, then write their own…
Students read the poem in this printable titled "Composed on Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth, and then answer…
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
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!
Students will write an acrostic poem from the name of a winter holiday: "Christmas," "Kwanzaa," or "Hanukkah." This is…
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…
In this word processing activity, students learn about cinquains and write their own cinquain. Then they illustrate…
REFERENCE
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.
Explore the meaning of "Hunger", a poem by Emily Dickinson.
ACTIVITIES
This assortment of activities will help your students to love nursery rhymes. These activities follow along classic…
A brief article about Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Read this love poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning with your students.
Read about the life of 14th-century writer Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales.
Read this biography to learn more about Wilfred Owen, one of the great English poets of World War I.
