Scholastic
Scholastic: Poetry: A Writing With Writers Activity
Interactive poetry lessons with well-known authors for three age groups including first through fourth grades with Jack Prelutsky, second through fifth grades with Jean Marzollo, and fourth through eighth grade with Karla Kuskin.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Poetry: A Writing With Writers Activity
Interactive poetry lessons with well-known authors for three age groups including first through fourth grades with Jack Prelutsky, second through fifth grades with Jean Marzollo, and fourth through eighth grade with Karla Kuskin.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Read, Write, and Analyze Poetry (Haiku and Free Verse Poetry)
This tutorial focuses on poetry; it defines free verse and haiku, explains how to write each, and provides examples. It offers a slideshow which provides tips for beginners on how to read poetry, how to identify types of poetry, and how...
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Pizzaz!
Come and check out this incredible resource from the University of Oregon. This site features links to creative-writing for poetry and fiction, as well as other teacher resources.
Other
Poetry4 Kids: Poetry Lessons
This resource offers guidance through the writing process of writing funny poetry. There are instructions on how to write a clerihew and an exaggeration poem.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
Contains back-to-school poetry lesson ideas that ask students to write poems in order to get to know each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems
In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Poems, Poems, Everywhere
Learners will read poems for pleasure, read a poem closely for meaning and form, and present a poem as a part of a group to the class. They will write a variety of poems, and choose at least one for re-writing and editing to publication...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sound & Rhyme
This lesson discusses the use of sound in poetry, mainly focusing on the use of rhyme. Various kinds of rhyme are defined (rhyme scheme, perfect rhyme, forced rhyme, slant rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, visual rhyme, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Learning About Cinquains
After reading/hearing Junie B. First Grader Cheater Pants by Barbara Park and discussing the concepts of cheating, following directions, and the genre of poetry, students will write cinquains and will publish a class booklet.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #4: Owls
During this lesson, young scholars will visit various Internet sites to learn facts about owls. They will use this information to draw a picture of the owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a poem about owls.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Capturing a Moment in Time
This lesson allows the students to explore imagery poetry through the use of a digital camera. The students visualize an imagery poem then look at a painting that pays tribute to the poem. Then the students think of a moment in time...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Biographical Poetry
Students will work with a partner to write an original poem using information learned about a person involved in the American Revolution. The students will then share the poems by creating a multimedia slide show.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Expressing Yourself With Poetry
Two classes at different schools or across the hall share dramatic poetry presentations as part of a poetry unit. Students listen to poetry, practice reading poetry, and (if practical) participate in a distance learning program on...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Class Portrait: An Anthology in Words and Pictures
Lesson plan where students each write an autobiographical poem and illustrate it by taking pictures with a digital camera. Students' work is then complied into an anthology. (Note: Lesson procedure includes reading a book that is not...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am Poems
Students will write and illustrate I Am poems. An I Am poem is an 18-line, three-stanza poem which students write about themselves, or a real or fictitious character. When all students have presented their poems to their classmates, the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Write a Cinquain
During this lesson, third grade young scholars will navigate the Internet to learn about cinquains. They will use their new knowledge to create their own cinquains while learning important word processing skills.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters: Paul Revere [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore the life of Paul Revere through the lens of a painting of the Midnight Run. Using the painting as a springboard, students write and enact a poem illustrating the event.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Writing Poems From Dragonfly Facts
In this activity, students create rhyming poems, first as a class, then on their own, using facts that they have learned about dragonflies.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Simple Formula Poem: Dueling Acrostic Poems
Students use an interactive topic generator to select a topic for writing dueling acrostic poems; two acrostic poems with opposite words.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Summarizing a State's History With a Found Poem
Students will identify the main message and story behind the song "Cold Missouri Waters," by James Keelaghan; they will use a note-taking strategy and create a "found poem." They will then apply this strategy to an article from a printed...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Right Brained Lesson: Serendipitous Love Metaphors
Based on its title, student writers predict what Benatar's song means when it says that "Love Is a Battlefield." After discussing Benatar's extended metaphor as a class, students will create an original extended metaphor about love in...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Acrostic Summaries [Pdf]
Summarize any subject you'd like with these acrostic poems. Examples are provided. [PDF]
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Expanding Serendipitous Similes in Poems
An explanation of simile and its role in poetry followed by a simile maker. Press the buttons to create a simile and then write a poem that expands that simile.