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...

Excellent teaching resource that attempts to teach poetic concepts to middle schoolers by using riddles. Discusses riddles' use of metaphor, simile, and imagery, and relates these concepts to the middle schoolers' understanding of...

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....

This teaching tool focuses on teaching poetry in less than 10 minutes per day. Turn your students into poetry pros with a quick structured poetry analysis. Focus Poetry is a technique of shared reading that provides multiple...

This site has lots of teaching ideas for instilling a love of poetry in students. Sections include Poetry Class, Poetry Fun, Poetry Theater, Poetry Contests, and information on how to invite authors to your school.

Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...

Looking at three of Sylvia Plath's poems, learners will be encouraged to think critically and create compositions that explore complex themes. [PDF]

[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...

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 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 in the Classroom presents The Music in Poetry. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package for exploring the rhythms in poetry. Includes background information, instructional activity extensions, student...

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.

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...

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.

[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...

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.

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...

This series of activities give learners opportunities to explore the relationship between production and reception in poetic form. They will consider how W.H. Auden's mastery of language contributes to the impact and longevity of his work.

This lesson plan-tutorial uses "Beware do not read this poem" by Ismael Reed to teach students how to read and appreciate poetry.

Lesson that gently encourages the teaching of poetry in "nonthreatening" ways. Stresses reading and listening, discussion, and the examination of the sound and sense of poetry.

Choose from the poems, then complete the reading, discussion, and writing activities. A good wrap-up to a poetry unit.

Ninth grade teacher Brett Vogelsinger offers twelve active ways to incorporate poetry into almost any class. Use these during National Poetry Month (April) or anytime throughout the year.

Explore a wealth of poems, lesson plans, and classroom activities to help elementary school students discover the diversity in African-American poets and create their own voice in poetry. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).

This site is actually meant for teachers but students will find much of it useful, too. The writer, a teacher, describes her lesson plan for teaching children to write poetry. While her lessons are meant for elementary students, as she...