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Flag Day Acrostic Poem
In this creating an acrostic poem activity, students write a poem using the letters in FLAG DAY. Students write a 7 line poem.
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Invention Acrostic Poem
In this creative writing worksheet, students write an acrostic poem using the letters in the word INVENTION. Students create a 9 line poem.
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Finding Rhyming Words in a French Poem
Explore rhyming in this phonemic awareness and French lesson. Listen to the poem "J'Adore la Pizza" by Karen Kransky and identify rhyming words. Compare grapheme spelling patterns with like phonemes, and sort word cards according to...
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Great Authors Acrostic Poem
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the letters in AUTHOR to write an acrostic poem. Students write a 6 line poem.
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Mother's Day Poems and Lesson Plans
Mother's Day poems and other types of activities can get students' creative juices flowing.
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Poetic Me
In this writing poetry worksheet, students discover what an acrostic poem is and how to write one. Students then compose acrostic poems about themselves.
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Writing Original Literary Texts - The Cuban Crab Migration
Students explore figurative language through poetry. In this poetry lesson, students view a video segment regarding the Cuban crab migration. Students use similes and metaphors in poetry they create based on the journey the crabs make.
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Keats' Poems Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about the poetry of John Keats. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Japan Acrostic Poem
In this writing poetry worksheet, learners write about and explore Japan. Students write an acrostic poem about Japan using the letters in the country's name.
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Forest Poetry
Learners explore nature by participating in a poetry writing activity. In this forest investigation lesson, students identify images and feelings they experienced while they were in a forest on a class trip. Learners identify poetry...
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CHINESE NEW YEAR
In this acrostic worksheet, students are given one line for each corresponding letter of the words "Chinese New Year". They are asked to write a poem, beginning the first word in each line with the appropriate letter.
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I Am Poem
In this poem worksheet, students fill in the blanks to the poem about themselves. Students complete 19 lines to the poem on this worksheet.
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Spoken Word Poetry
Students examine the spoken work poetry of Abiodun Oyewole. They discuss the West African Griot tradition, listen to spoken word poetry, write and perform a poem, and watch a video excerpt of a poetry workshop.
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Writing with Writers
Students participate in Writing with Writer's, a step-by-step set of directions aimed at improving different genres of student writing. They identify the characteristics of different genres and follow a specified writing process to...
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July 19th Writing Prompt
In this daily writing prompt worksheet, students learn that poet, playwright, and teacher Eve Merriam was born on this day in 1916. Students sharpen their writing skills as they compose their own poems.
Poetry Out Loud
Creating "Golden Shovel" Poems
Get even your most reluctant pupils reading, writing, reciting, and maybe even enjoying poetry! A four day lesson, young writers learn about Golden Shovel poems: a poem format that uses borrowed words from other poems as the last words...
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Picture Poetry
What a fun idea! The class discusses, and then writes free-verse poems using sensory detail. They get into small collaborative writing teams to compose their poems. Next, they pantomime the actions from the poem while their teammates...
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Is Perception Reality? Writing Paradoxes in Poetry
Explore the paradox of the universe - or, at least, of popular music - with this lesson. Using the songs "Inaudible Melodies" by Jack Johnson and "She" by Green Day, your class will complete a graphic organizer to help them understand...
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Symphonic Poetry
Young scholars interpret the themes in Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, create a 6-line poem based on the themes in the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, and define musical terms related to the study of programmatic...
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I Spy Poetry
Explore the components of rhythm and form through a reading of Jean Marzollo's I Spy books. After discussing Marzollo’s format, the class agrees upon a theme for a class book and topics that fit with that theme. Pupils write a poem,...
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Picture Perfect Poetry
Do your language arts students love to draw? Use this lesson plan to reinforce poetic techniques with illustration. After drawing what they think poem would look like with no words, middle and high schoolers work on several different...
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Research a Poet and Explicate a Poem by that Poet
Using your school's media center, internet research, and a SMART board, 7th graders research a chosen poet and write a research report. Additionally, 7th graders explicate one poem by the poet within their report. Several resource links...
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Poems That Dance
Combine the elements of dance with the actions in a poem. Learners review basic grammar, write an action-packed cinquain poem, and then choreograph a dance based on their cinquains. After the dances are done, they'll discuss the elements...
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A Poetic Place
Here is a nice way to introduce your young learners to poetry and writing their own poems. Children create their own poems about their favorite quiet-time places. After listening to some poems read aloud by the teacher, each child gets...
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