Curated OER
Kinder-Pictionary
Students create their own dictionary. In this spelling lesson, students make a dictionary with just words and pictures. They use these dictionaries when they are writing to remember how to spell words.
Curated OER
Language Arts: Creating Original Fiction
Fourth graders create fictional stories and demonstrate the use of various writing techniques. After selecting their main ideas, they find appropriate graphics to use as illustrations. In groups, 4th graders apply Hyperstudio in...
Curated OER
Internet Project - Project Groundhog
Students share weather and community information with other students across the continents. In groups, students collect details, pictures, and drawings about their community, its weather patterns, and school. They predict if groundhog...
Curated OER
Going to Extremes
Students recognize that our ability to explore the extremes of the ocean is directly related to the technology of remote sensing. Students will recognize the deep submergence vehicle, Alvin, and the advanced sensors on board as tools for...
Curated OER
Dragons In Chinese Folktales And Art
Students investigate and discuss the use of the dragon in Chinese folktales and art in this middle school lesson introducing Chinese art and culture. Lesson extensions are included for additional activities.
Curated OER
Observation And Listening Skills
First graders read a story about polar bears and make observations as they read. In this observations lesson plan, 1st graders listen carefully and sing a bear chant.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Types of Poems
Explores poetry terms and the different types of poetry.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to understand and explore different types of poetry.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing, Reading, and Understanding Poetry
This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: World Poetry Day Activity
A classroom activity/lesson plan which marks World Poetry Day. Allows students to discuss, appreciate, and respond to different types of poetry, and includes web links and an annotated bibliography. From March 21, 2007.
TES Global
Tes: Forms of Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] These Several lessons provide students with an understanding with different types of writing forms: calligram, cinquain, diamante, haiku, and narrative.
TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry Power
A learning module with fifteen links to a slideshow, videos, texts, and websites on elements of poetry, figurative language, and different types of poetry.
TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry Writing
A fifteen-part learning module with links to texts and videos about writing different types of poetry.
Read Works
Read Works: Be a Poet
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different types of poetry. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Poetry You've Got Rhythm [Pdf]
A short but informational worksheet for students on the rhythmical sounds of poetry. Includes information about the different types of meter and feet, and allows students to make connections and analysis.
TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry
A learning module that includes twenty-two links to videos, pictures, weblinks, charts, and activities about different types of poetry including couplet, cinquain, acrostic, diamante, limerick, free verse, lyric, narrative, concrete, and...
TES Global
Blendspace: 3rd Grade Poetry Investigation
A learning module with thirty-one links to texts, videos, images, websites, and slides on different types and forms of poetry as well as poetic imagery, rhyme, figurative language use, and more.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Poetry Quiz
This quiz will assess your knowledge of poetry concepts. Links provided allow you to enlarge your quiz to full screen, see the quiz in a different format, read about the different types of poetry, and interpret a poem in the fun,...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Lyric Poetry
A brief explanation of what a lyric poem is and the different types based on structure. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
Axelson Academy
Axelson Academy:types of Texts
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "All So Different"
A poem about how many different types of animals there are in the world.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "Homes"
A poem about the different types of things and places animals call home.
Other
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: American Verse Project
The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form with various forms of access provided through the WWW. This site...