Curated OER
Lesson: Paul Chan: Tree of Life
Paul Chan's work has been known to show the cycle of change. Learners explore the concept of change by analyzing his work and reading the poem "For Which it Stands." They consider symbolism, communication, art, and society as they use...
Curated OER
Dali & Desnos: Surrealism in Poetry and Art
Learners research the surrealism movement and its primary artists. Language is also analyzed, and students will create their own original poem utilizing surrealistic techniques.
Curated OER
Write Your Own Poem
In this wring a poem activity, students find words that rhyme with ones given and use these rhyming pairs of words to create sentences and two line poems that rhyme. Students write twenty answers.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros
By looking to examples of popular poetry in a variety of forms, students learn to analyze, appreciate, and synthesize poetry in the classroom. "Writing Poetry Like Pros" provides several links to poetry texts and suggestions for creating...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Riddle Rhymes With Jean Marzollo
Children's author Jean Marzollo will teach you how to write "I Spy Riddle Rhymes"! There is a teacher's guide included.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Poetry Writing With Jack Prelutsky
Here you will find awesome poetry guidelines from Jack Prelutsky! You will also find a teacher's guide.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Poetry Writing
Many simple forms, such as cinquain and haiku, that follow set formats, are included in this poetry lesson plan.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Poetry With Karla Kuskin
Karla Kuskin will take you through the writing process and will share many of her helpful hints! There is a teacher's guide included.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Hoot & Howl Poems: Fall Poetry
In this lesson, students develop a spooky poem for autumn by utilizing strong word choice.
abcteach
Abcteach: Peace Poem Form [Pdf]
Lovely printable, ruled form on which students can write a peace poem. Illustrated with a dove carrying an olive branch.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
Contains plans for eight lessons in a poetry unit that asks students to write poetry in various forms after reading models. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing a Bio Poem
This site describes how a Bio poem can be used to teach learners to focus on the characteristics of a person or an animal, anything or anyone really. It requires the student to put themselves in the subject's shoes. Lesson plan indicated...