WORKSHEETS
Create your own chants and poetry about ecology, and make posters of them.
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.
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…
BOOK GUIDES
Join Hands: The Ways We Celebrate Life incorporates language, photography, and poetry in a book about building…
Enrich your math and science curriculum with activities for "An Extraterrestrial Alien" by Jack Prelutsky and "Our Earth…
Students use the five senses to describe their favorite color. Plus, they explore the color wheel by solving color…
Share this letter by poet Joyce Sidman with your students. The letter features advice on how to write inspired,…
Steady Hands: Poems about Work will inspire your students to write their own poetry about jobs. They will investigate…
Print these colorful "I Love Poetry" logos onto a sheet of sticky labels, and you'll have your own stickers! Students…
REFERENCE
Make the most of A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson with the discussion questions, extension activities, and…
Use these questions to guide discussion about the poem In the Land of Words by Eloise Greenfield.
Study the world of children's poet laureate Jack Prelutsky with this teacher's guide to 12 of his poetry collections.…