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Elementary poetry resources for Microsoft OneDrive and for GATE
Writing Poetry Unit: Fun Poetry Activities - Paint Chip, Blackout, + 12 more!
Teaching poetry doesn't have to be intimidating. In fact, it can (and should be!) really fun! With this writing poetry unit, you'll have 14 fun and creative poetry activities that you can use as stand-alone prompts or pair with ANY text.Oftentimes, creative writing prompts like poetry get cut due to testing and time constraints. But what if I told you that you don't have to choose between creative activities and your set curriculum? With the help of this poetry unit, you can have both!These poet
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5th - 12th
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Haiku Tunnel Books: Art & Haiku Writing Project using Postcards for Prompts
Tunnel books are unique and fun! A tunnel book is a three-dimensional movable book that you read by looking through it. Originally from the mid-18th century, tunnel books are enjoying new popularity as an art form in their own right. The tunnel books you've seen may look complicated, but I've developed a method that simplifies the process so that students from 3rd or 4th grade and up can be successful making tunnel books of their own. We'll use a postcard as a prompt for writing an original haik
Poetry Centers
Add PIZZAZZ to your poetry unit!This resource includes 78 printable pages that can be used as poetry centers in your classroom after each skill/strategy is explicitly taught. The centers are designed to reteach and reinforce. ALSO...the resources could also easily be adapted to use with your whole class as a guided activity! If applicable, most of the direction sheets match up with recording sheets for reflection. Each center was created to address the Common Core Standards in a Readers Workshop
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2nd - 5th
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Cinquain Poetry Template Pack | Cinquain Poem Activities | Print & Digital
Looking for a terrific cinquain poem template? This Cinquain Poem Template resource has four unique cinquain templates and much, much more!This Cinquain Poetry Template resource has the templates you need. No more searching for what you need for cinquains in class! There's so much variety in levels that you can use it in grade levels 3 - 12!With an included digital version, this cinquain template pack will work for you whether you're teaching in-person or using virtual instruction.This cinquain
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3rd - 11th
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Also included in: National Poetry Month Activities | Cinquain Poem Mini Unit
Figurative Language Beat the Clock PowerPoint Game
Figurative Language PowerPoint game. Students love this fun interactive digital review! Practice identifying types of sound devices and figurative language used in poetry and writing. Review definitions - similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia before game starts. Students have one minute to name types of figurative language or sound devices used in two sentences. 36 practice sentences with figurative language. Great game for review at the end of
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Language Arts Beat the Clock PowerPoint Game BUNDLE
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost PowerPoint
Robert Frost - Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening PowerPoint. Poetry analysis for a close read of the poem and writing activity. Includes slides about the author, setting, characters, figurative language, alliteration, metaphor, end rhyme, internal rhyme, structure, meter, different interpretations (including a Christmas one), and a writing activity based on Common Core State Standards that require citing text evidence. Includes a printable note-taking sheet to go with the PowerPoint. Pr
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5th - 8th
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes PowerPoint Poetry Study
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes is a classic ghost story that students love. Middle school students enjoy reading "The Highwayman" at Halloween. Digital resource has slides on characters, vocabulary, and literary elements such as figurative language and sound devices included. Has an activity for sequencing the events in the plot. Great poetry analysis and word study for October. The narrative poem is shown as a verse per slide. Students can take turns reading, or if you have an audio, have them
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
Figurative Language Activity - Instructional Slideshow DIGITAL Analyze Devices
We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide Google Drive Slideshow will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.Two Parts to the Google Slideshow:> 23 Instructional Slides with definitions and examples> 22 Quiz Review Slides with quote from novel or song for students to analyze> 22 Quiz ReTeach Slides with ex
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Cinquain Poem Writing PowerPoint
Cinquain Poem PowerPoint. The step-by-step formula on how to write a cinquain poem, that provides examples for students to understand how the writing process works for these kinds of poems. Includes a graphic organizer that you can print for the students to write on. One great way to use cinquain formula poems - students can write a cinquain poem for Mother's Day, Father's Day or Grandparent's Day. Use PowerPoints like this in video conferencing or Zoom for remote learning. Share with your stud
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
Distance Learning Poetry Writing: Digital Where I'm From Poem
This PDF download contains a link for Interactive Google Slides. I designed this product to help my students create "Where I'm From" poems as inspired by George Ella Lyon. Slides 2-5 : Students will begin by reading and annotating the original poem. This always sparks great discussions as students unwrap Lyon's figurative language. Slides 7 – 16 : Students will plan for their own poem by describing important memories, people, places, and objects. There are 8 categories in which students will br
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4th - 8th
Paint Chip Poetry ELA Writing Upper Elementary Middle High School Editable GATE
This Google Slides presentation is COMPLETELY EDITABLE and guides students through the art of writing a poem incorporating paint chip colors into their masterpiece. My students get VERY creative with this. I have used this in my 5th grade gifted classes as well as my middle school English classes. (I also have friends who had amazing results with their high schoolers.) There are 2 links (one video and one blog) reminding the students what literary devices are... in case they have forgotten. ;)Al
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5th - 10th
Poetry Writing - Create Poems Using Emotion PowerPoint and Printable Form
A fun way to teach Poetry Writing. Students use an emotion to create poems. PowerPoint walks them through writing the poem step by step. Engage your students as they learn about poetry writing. Includes a definition of poetry, explanation of figurative language, imagery, and sound devices, a list of human emotions, and a step by step approach to writing a sensory poem. You can also print out the included poetry frame for reference if you desire, and includes a printable poem format at the end fo
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
WE WEAR THE MASK POEM & ART | Inside Outside Poem Dunbar BLACK HISTORY MONTH
In this no-prep, easy-to-use unit inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” poem, students will use art and poetry to deeply analyze the masks we wear, distinguish between their inside vs. outside character and personality traits, and represent these findings through a self-created mask. This engaging activity turns this abstract concept into an activity that is high-interest, easy to understand, and memorable!This The Mask I Wear Product Includes 12 NO PREP, easy-to-use pages:•Pages
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5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: BLACK HISTORY MONTH ART POETRY PERSONALITY | We Wear the Mask Dunbar
Poetry Analysis and Comprehension: How to Read a Poem PowerPoint
How to Read Poetry PowerPoint Presentation guides students in how to read a poem and how to approach reading poetry with a plan so they can better understand what a poem means. Teaches poetry analysis, close reading of poetry, before, during and after reading strategies including paraphrasing, journaling, and "two per line.” These strategies will help students with poetry reading comprehension and become more active and responsive readers. Supports CCSS. 17 slide PowerPoint with three pages of
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
Nonfiction Earthworm Articles Differentiated with Common Core Assessment
In second grade we focus so much of our time on the life cycle of different animals. In my class we use a unit that includes this fundamental science concept with an everyday creature. The superheroes of soil, earthworms! This unit can completely stand alone and needs no other connection. However, if you liked the style and approach of the Komodo dragon unit, this is more of the same. :)
The main article is written in 2 differentiated forms. One article measures at a Lexile of 600 and the othe
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2nd - 5th
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Poetry Digital Notebook Paperless Google Drive Spring Activity
Digital Pocketful of Poetry Google Edition
Digital Interactive Notebook Digital Flip Book
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★Teacher Tutorial – includes the access link and how to use this poetry resource in your classroom.
★Microsoft OneDrive users can seamlessly use the poetry digital interactive notebooks by following the Microsoft OneDrive step-by-step visual tutorial. This will only take minutes!
★Total of 8 pages
★For printing – there are dotted lines to cut along that will guide you
★Clickable tabs
★Poetry ter
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Bundle for Google Drive and Digital Notebooks
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- Owl Moon Pop-up and Critical Thinking
Now with a more kid-friendly pop-up option:
Owl Moon is incredibly rich in critical thinking potential, rich in artwork, and rich in the feelings words evoke.
Come along for a challenging lesson and a fun extension activity with the poetic 1988 Caldecott Award winner Owl Moon. Critical thinking about poetry, participatory reading, and figurative language along with a project in which we create an owl to “pop up” and spread its wings poetically will energize your students.
Caldecott books a
Poetry Activities for 2nd Grade & 3rd Grade Poems CCSS Exemplar Texts BUNDLE
Your Second Grade and Third Grade students will blow your minds with the high-level thinking they'll do with the poetry lessons in this poetry bundle. You'll be so amazed at their critical and creative thinking that you'll be bragging about them in the teacher workroom.The lessons are geared to Second and Third Grade (with one designed to bridge to Fourth Grade), but I won't tell if you use it with other grades as well!You'll get excellent teacher instructions, step-by-step, word-for-word classr
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2nd - 3rd
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What's in the Sack by Shel Silverstein Beginning of the Year PowerPoint
"What's in the Sack" by Shel Silverstein PowerPoint. Goes well with my All About Me Bag Activity; Great for Back to School and Beginning of the Year. This poem is also great anytime as an SEL activity. Animated graphics will make this poem fun to read and engage your students. Includes stop and think question slides. At the end, includes a slide of questions to think about and discuss and a slide prompting retelling and connecting with the poem. Use this digital resource in video conferencing
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K - 3rd
Kindergarten Bird-Themed Challenges for Gifted and Talented GATE - Storytelling
You’ll have loads of fun with this thematic “birds” bundle of lessons and activities. We address BEST PRACTICES for our youngest gifted and advanced learners with hand-on puzzles, storytelling, participatory reading, acting, humor, video, and improvisation. In the process, we will deliver two social emotional messages—one about teamwork, and one about diversity. So little time, and so much to do! That’s why we always, always, always engage and challenge students in critical thinking across the c
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K - 2nd
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Making Tracks with Footprint Mysteries KG 1st 2nd GATE Primary Challenges!
Engaging challenge of a highly participatory and creative nature for our youngest primary kids!Here’s another lesson for our youngest gifted learners based on research and best practices advocated by the National Association of Gifted Children. It’s rich in age 4-7 critical thinking opportunities with hands-on learning, visual discrimination and details, improvisational opportunities including creativity, storytelling, writing and art, and engaging activities associated with the kids’ immediate
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
BLACK HISTORY ART & POETRY BUNDLE |We Wear the Mask & Two Voice Poem | About Me
Save 25%...includes We Wear the Mask poetry and art unit & Inside/Outside Two Voice Poem Activity! Boost student relationships and remember your students’ personality types all year with this no-prep, easy-to-use We Wear the Mask & Inside/Outside Traits Two Voice Poem BUNDLE!! First, students embark on a unit inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” poem. In it, students will use art and poetry to deeply analyze the masks we wear, distinguish between their inside vs. outside
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3rd - 12th
Weekly Reading Log with Depth and Complexity Icons Bundle
Help your readers stay on track with this weekly reading log. We use this as homework but it could easily be used in the classroom as well.Students track their daily reading, including title, time spent reading, and pages read. On the back, there is space for a text response. At the end of the week, readers add up their pages and time spent reading. A space for a parent signature is the final piece.The icons of depth and complexity (often called GATE Icons) are added so that students may thi
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3rd - 8th
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Thesaurus and Poetry Writing Robert Frost's Dust of Snow Early & Middle Grades
Raise students' thesaurus skills to incredible heights using Robert Frost's poem "Dust of Snow." Your students will love the gorgeous visuals included to awaken all of their senses. This lesson is perfect for early elementary and middle elementary students who need to develop their thesaurus skills and address poetry standards. They'll rewrite Frost's poem using what they gained from the thesaurus work they've done, creating fabulous poems based on the mentor text.Using the provided discussion g
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2nd - 4th
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Learn more about poetry resources
Poetry encourages students to engage with language, explore their thoughts and feelings, and connect with the broader human experience. If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital poetry resources, look no further. TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
If you want to make poets out of younger students in elementary grades, then acrostic poems or fill in the blank poems are the perfect place to start. (In fact, many poetry resources on TPT include templates so your students can easily get started producing their own poetry, whether it’s a haiku, or limerick.) For older students in middle and high school, you can find an array of resources to teach them about everything from iambic pentameter, figurative language, to famous poets from history. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your students’ poetry skills in no time.
Fun and engaging poetry activities to try
Teaching students about poetry can be an engaging and creative experience. Here are a few ideas for poetry activities that you can find on TPT to help you introduce and explore the world of poetry with your students:
Poetic Device Scavenger Hunt
Distribute some poems and have students identify and highlight poetic devices like similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. Discuss what these are and the overall impact on the reader's experience.
Poetry Analysis Jigsaw
Divide students into small groups, assigning each group a different poem. Have each group analyze the assigned poem's themes, tone, and literary devices, and present their findings to the class.
Poetry Slam or Performance
Organize a poetry slam where students can perform poems they’ve written themselves or those written by famous poets. This will help build confidence and strengthen their public speaking skills.
Writing Poetry from Different Perspectives
Ask students to write a poem from the perspective of an inanimate object or an animal to foster empathy and encourage creative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Creating Found Poetry
Provide magazines, newspapers, or online articles. Have students cut out interesting words and phrases, and use them to create their own unique poems.
These (and other!) activities can help deepen your students’ appreciation for poetry and enhance their creative writing skills.
Frequently asked questions about teaching poetry
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There are many different types of poetry resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular poetry lessons include learning how to write haikus, acrostic poems, limericks, and free verse.
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