EL Education
El Education: Kids Book of Poetry
Students write acrostic name poems, sensory poems, and how-to poems and compile them into a class book of poetry.
TES Global
Tes: Onomatopoeia: Poetic Devices Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point presentation provides thorough definitions and examples of onomatopoeia.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Top
Help the bees collect words that rhyme with top by clicking on the bees, finding the words that rhyme with top, and dragging them to the nest. Links to lesson plans and materials are available.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Words That Rhyme With Ten
This reading game focuses on words that rhyme. Young readers click on stars and words appear. The readers then pick the words that rhyme with ten and drag the words into the Rhino's thought cloud.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poem Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a BBC site supporting poem reading and writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poems Acrostic & Diamonte
[Free Registration/Login Required] Created by Robin Doggins - Acrostic and Diamonte Poems introduced through graphic organizers, examples and partner activities.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Summarizing 5 K With Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Poetry with Young Writers: This flipchart is a poetry unit for the Early Childhood classroom that reviews the 5K year. Students are introduced to writing poetry, both from the heart and through...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Cat
Help Belinda the Chicken collect her fruit by clicking on the apples, finding the ones that rhyme with cat, and dragging them to her house. Links to lesson plans and printable materials are available.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Words That Rhyme With Hill
This reading game focuses on words that rhyme. Young readers click on stars and words appear. The readers then pick the words that rhyme with hill and drag the words into the Rhino's thought cloud.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Green Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] An introductory flipchart of images that can be used as a stimulus for writing poetry about the environment. The images could be used for discussion to gather ideas on what can be done to save the planet.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Ug
Students identify words that rhyme with "-ug" by clicking on the bees. If the bee reveals a word that does rhyme drag the word to the line within the beehive.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With At
Students identify words that rhyme with "-at" by clicking on the apples. If the apple reveals a word that does rhyme drag the word to the line within the chicken coop.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Ill
Students identify words that rhyme with "-ill" by clicking on the stars. If the star reveals a word that does rhyme drag the word to the line above the Ryan the Rhino's head.
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write a Cinquain
At the most basic level a cinquain is a five line poem or stanza. Here are two variations. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write a Diamond Poem
This is a good poem format to help teach adjectives, verbs, and nouns. Lesson plan indicated for 2nd grade and above.
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to students, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Rhyming Word Games
This article explains that rhyming words help children learn to spell. It describes how to play three different rhyming word games: Disappearing Rhyme Man, Rhyme that Word, and Rhyme Hunt.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Activity: Awesome Alliteration | Word Girl
This WordGirl lesson focuses on alliteration. Students will generate a list of alliterative words, then write an original poem using those words.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Getting Started With Poetry
Great ideas for introducting poetry to first grade or kindergarden students! These real teachers share what they do in their classrooms.
Starfall
Starfall: Robert Louis Stevenson: My Shadow
An online storybook based on Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, My Shadow. The reading level is at about Grade 2.