LESSON PLANS
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers tried and true techniques for bringing poetry into the lives of…
WORKSHEETS
Students write a Fall poem and explore rhyming patterns.
ACTIVITIES
Students will immerse themselves in the poems of Emily Dickinson by writing, researching, drawing, and more.
REFERENCE
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…
To celebrate Poetry Month, this resource shares 3 activities that will help high school students to engage with poetry…
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic provides mentor texts for poetry with the content of…
BOOK GUIDES
This printable teacher's guide for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers information and activities designed to spark…
Read this poem about a hairy dog, then have students compare and contrast the dog in the poem with other dogs they know.
In this poetry activity, students attempt to determine the main idea the author wishes to present.
Use this poem to teach students about caring.
Students will construct a drawing demonstrating understanding of descriptive details from the poem and other texts.
Use this poem to teach students about responsibility.
In this poetry lesson plan, introduce (or re-familiarize) your students with metaphors. Then, encourage them to get…
Students write fall-themed haikus, then decorate paper with beautiful autumn scenes on which to write their poetry. …
This themed packet of reading and writing activities focuses on America's youngest Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. It…
Students write poems in different styles, such as Haiku and couplet.
Caminar, a novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, is the moving story of a boy who loses…
Integrate Sharon Creech's Love That Dog and Hate That Cat into your poetry unit with this teacher's guide. This packet…
Create your own chants and poetry about ecology, and make posters of them.
Students recite a poem as a way to practice oral speaking.
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…
Students will learn about weathergrams in this poetry activity. They will then write their own weathergram.
In this word processing activity, students learn about cinquains and write their own cinquain. Then they illustrate…
