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Core Knowledge: Poetry in Motion [Pdf]
Collection in pdf format of seven lessons integrating poetry across-the-curriculum. Includes dramatization, developing poetry reading skills, and creating poetry appreciation. Printable graphic organizers and a fine bibliography...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros
By looking to examples of popular poetry in a variety of forms, students learn to analyze, appreciate, and synthesize poetry in the classroom. "Writing Poetry Like Pros" provides several links to poetry texts and suggestions for creating...
Read Works
Read Works: Poems & Questions for National Poetry Month
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a collection of sets of poems with comprehension questions. The poems were joined as a resource for teachers who are recognizing National Poetry Month during April of each year.
Library of Congress
Loc: Making Connections Through Poetry
Why not assign a creative project through which students analyze historical documents and share their understanding through poetry and art? All of the resources for this project (documents, images, and examples of famous poems) are...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: National Poetry Month
This site offers extensive resources for teaching poetry. Find interviews with poets, ideas for poetry lessons, book lists, and ways to use poetry across the curriculum. There are also resources specifically for National Poetry Month....
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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Poetry Writing With Jack Prelutsky
Here you will find awesome poetry guidelines from Jack Prelutsky! You will also find a teacher's guide.
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The Poetry of John Haines
This introduction to a new collection of John Haines' poetry by poet and critic Dana Gioia surveys Haines' work and includes the poem, "The Flight."
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: How to Read a Poem
This resource aims to give A-level students a strategy and example for reading a poem. We asked a Cambridge student to read a poem as though they were going to write an essay on it, and to write down their thoughts as they went through...
TES Global
Tes: Yr 5 Poetry Unit 1 a Poetic Style
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module engages students in analyzing different poems. A poetry unit overview, a poetry checklist, figurative language notes, sixteen poems and graphic organizers are included to help...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Discovering a Passion for Poetry W/ Langston Hughes
After analyzing examples of contemporary youth poetry as well as the poetry of Langston Hughes, learners will use the Internet to conduct research on how events in the world have shaped Hughes' work. They will cite specific examples that...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Understanding the context of modernism is important for students before they analyze modernist texts themselves. To that end, this is a three-lesson curriculum unit: 1."Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry;" 2. "Thirteen Ways of...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing
Three learning activities to teach K-2 students about poetry. Very detailed lessons with references and other suggested activities. Ways to individualize and academic content standards are noted. (Attachment may not load in archived URL.)
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Music in Poetry
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents The Music in Poetry. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package for exploring the rhythms in poetry. Includes background information, lesson extensions, student handouts, examples of...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Music in Poetry
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents The Music in Poetry. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package for exploring the rhythms in poetry. Includes background information, lesson extensions, student handouts, examples of...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: The All Purpose Multimedia Poetry Beast
In this activity students explore writing and performing poetry in various forms: writing poetry, choral readings, mime, and preparing a multi-media presentation by designing a web page.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lord Byron, Poe, and Poetry: Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Explore the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, and "the most poetical topic in the world" in this series of videos from the American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive. Discussion questions, teaching tips, and a student...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry
A learning module that teaches students how to understand poetry in four mini lessons: Introduction, Finding Meaning from Figurative Devices, Making Inferences Based on Textual Evidence, and Making It Your Own.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pa: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
This University of Pennsylvania site reproduces the 1846 book here with some enhancements. Icons representing each of the 3 Bronte sisters identify who wrote which poem, and a provenance of the text explains where the information...
TES Global
Tes: Aqa Lit: King Lear & Parent/child Poetry So W
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson for comparing parent/child relationships using poems by a variety of English Literary Heritage poets and Acts I-III of King Lear. It includes parent/child lessons and...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Poetry Writing
This site comes from the Scholastic website and provides a teacher's guide to writing poetry. This lesson plan is put together very well and provides an outline of the project, learning objectives, assessment information and much more.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 3: Teaching Poetry
In Workshop 3, we see two master teachers - Vivian Johnson, who teaches eighth grade in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Jack Wilde, a fifth-grade teacher from Hanover, New Hampshire - help their students develop as readers and writers of...
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.
British Library
British Library: Barrett Browning's Poetry: Social & Political Commentary
Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave a voice, in her poems, to many of those oppressed by contemporary injustice: child laborers, the poor, and the enslaved. In this lesson, students will give these voices dramatic form, using the techniques...
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