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Scoring Rubric Poetry for Language Arts and Writing Classes

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

Creative Writing

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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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Reading and Literature

Reading

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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Reading Comprehension

Literature

Poetry

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The Crossover Educator's Guide

Download an educator's guide to the 2015 Newbery Medal-winning book The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. In this middle…

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Poetry

Sports

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The World of Shel Silverstein - A Guide for Teachers and Librarians

Let this printable help you find online, classroom, or library resources for works by Shel Silverstein. This is an…

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Library Resources

Literature

Banned Books and Censorship

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Perplexed Poetry

Have fun with poetry! Students use the missing words to complete rhymes from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald…

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Vocabulary

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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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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Teaching Harry Potter

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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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Poetry

African-American History

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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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Poetry

Language Arts and Writing

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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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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Authors

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Heroic Couplets

Review these couplets written in iambic pentameter.

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Literary Style and Techniques

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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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Reading and Literature

Literature

Poetry

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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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Literature

Poetry

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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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Reading and Literature

Literature

Poetry

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Fall into Rhyme

Students write a Fall poem and explore rhyming patterns.

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Creative Writing

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Love That Dog & Hate That Cat Teacher's Guide

Integrate Sharon Creech's Love That Dog and Hate That Cat into your poetry unit with this teacher's guide. This packet…

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Poetry

Language Arts and Writing

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Messing Around on the Monkey Bars Teacher's Guide

Author Betsy Franco suggests ways to use Messing Around on the Monkey Bars and Other School Poems for Two Voices in your…

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Poetry

Language Arts and Writing

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"The Man from Snowy River" Adaptation

"The Man from Snowy River" is a poem that was adapted into a film and a TV show. In this activity, students will choose…

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Storytelling

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Writing Weathergrams

Students will learn about weathergrams in this poetry activity. They will then write their own weathergram.

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Creative Writing

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Caminar Educator's Guide

Caminar, a novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, is the moving story of a boy who loses…

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Poetry

Guatemala

Reading Instruction

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A Poem Written on a Bridge

Students read the poem in this printable titled "Composed on Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth, and then answer…

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Poetry

Language Arts and Writing

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Cinquain Mosaics

In this word processing activity, students learn about cinquains and write their own cinquain. Then they illustrate…

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Visual Arts

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Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems Discussion Guide

The poems in Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems explore the social and emotional issues facing middle-school…

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Poetry

Reading Instruction

Language Arts and Writing

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Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems Poetry-Writing Activities

Help students write original poems based on their personal experiences with the seven writing activities in this…

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Poetry

Writing

Reading Instruction

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