WORKSHEETS
Discover fun ways for students to show off, display, and share their poems.
Children complete the nursery rhyme, find the words in the puzzle, and wind their way through a maze in these…
The thematic and curriculum connections in this teacher's guide for Miss Emily are correlated with Common Core ELA…
ASSESSMENT
Familiarize students with famous poets' names while they alphabetize this list.
BOOK GUIDES
Leave Your Sleep is a collection of classic children's poetry set to music by Natalie Merchant and illustrated by…
TEACHING RESOURCE
Many African-American poets have made important contributions to the literary world.
Try a printable poetry activity that focuses on writing a haiku about the characteristics of living things.
Demonstrate how to write a guyku with this illustrated haiku about baseball.
Increase social studies skills with an activity that has students writing a poem about being an American citizen.
LESSON PLANS
Welcome in the Fall season with this Autumn-themed poetry lesson! In these activities, based on the poem "As Soon As…
Give this poetry template to students so they can easily write and illustrate their own guyku-haiku.
ACTIVITIES
April is National Poetry Month! This themed packet was designed for elementary students, and includes a variety of…
Students create an acrostic poem for fall.
REFERENCE
In this poetry reading comprehension activity, students will read an interview with Jose Garcia Villa about his “Lyric…
Teach students about the difference between fiction and non-fiction.
In this poetry activity, students will be asked to demonstrate their knowledge of cause and effect.
In this activity, students explore the possibilities for nonverbal communication and emotion.
Explore an activity that incorporates reading, drawing and critical thinking into a poetry lesson.
Teach students about story sequence by rearranging the lines of the stanzas in correct order.
Use one or all of the prompts in this poetry writing lesson plan. Students will produce original creative phrases using…
In this printable computer activity, students practice formatting in word processing, as they create acrostic poems for…
What's in a state? What makes it great? Students learn more about a chosen state and create a rhyming poem to display…