Read Works
Read Works: 4th Grade Lesson: Similes and Metaphors
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...
Read Works
Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: How to Write a Poem
Discover how to write a poem when you use this site. This site offers insight into how to write a simple form of a poem through interactive activities.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Shakespeare
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques found in excerpts written by William Shakespeare. A worksheet is available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Activities
Numerous activities, games, quizzes, lessons, and PowerPoint presentations are provided for the topic of "figurative language" in writing. Students will have numerous exposures to examples. Students will also be able to practice...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Don't Suck Your Thumb" Poetry Theater
In "Don't Suck Your Thumb", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a child who finds a substitute for...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Empty Headed" Poetry Theater
In "Empty Voices", students will participate in a poem in many voices. Adapted from the poem by Linda J. Knaus in Miles of Smiles, students will dramatize a poem that describes all of the crazy things that they have seen.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Don't Pinch!" Poetry Theater
In "Don't Pinch!", students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in his My Dog Ate My Homework! poetry collection, students will dramatize a poem about a child who discovers why his friends...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "When the Bubble Burst" Poetry Theater
In "When the Bubble Burst", students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a child who gets in trouble for...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "We're Going Skiing" Poetry Theater
In "We're Going Skiing", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from I Hope I Don't Strike Out!'s poem by Eric Ode, students will dramatize a poem about a child who gets a surprise when she goes skiing.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Easter 1916
A learning module that begins with William Butler Yeats' poem "Easter 1916" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
A learning module that begins with Thomas Gray's poem "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
A learning module that begins with Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Glittering Noise
A learning module that begins with a poem called "The Glittering Noise" by Denise Levertov accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
A learning module that begins with an "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General" by Jonathan Swift, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Coming of Night
A learning module that begins with Linda Pastan's poem "The Coming of Night" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Description of a City Shower
A learning module that begins with "A Description of a City Shower" by Jonathan Swift, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Home Burial
A learning module that begins with "Home Burial" by Robert Frost, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: My Last Duchess
A learning module that begins with "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Morning in the Burned House
A learning module that begins with "Morning in the Burned House" by Margaret Atwood, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Lady of Shalott
A learning module that begins with "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: To His Excellency, General Washington
A learning module that begins with "To His Excellency, General Washington" by Phillis Wheatley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Tristan and Isolde
A learning module that begins with "Tristan and Isolde" by Lady Jane Wilde, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpts From "Song of Myself": 1, 2, 6, 52
A learning module that begins with "Excerpts from 'Song of Myself': 1, 2, 6, 52" by Walt Whitman, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...