TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry Writing
A fifteen-part learning module with links to texts and videos about writing different types of poetry.
TES Global
Blendspace: Literature Circle Differention Using Web 2.0 Tools
A fourteen-part learning module with links to websites for use with literature circles.
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.
Other
Jeopardy Labs: Text Structure
Practice answering text structure questions in this Jeopardy-style learning activity.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an introduction to poetry terms, examples, and web links.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry Cinquains
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flip chart explores the elements of Cinquain poetry. Students analyze the structure and create original Cinquains.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry Diamond
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the diamante poem, gives the elements and provides examples.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Quatrains
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will learn what a quatrain is, and how to write one. There are web links and an Activote session.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Storyworks
[Free Registration/Login Required] Practice interpreting different forms of poetry in this flipchart on The Appleton Twins.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Types of Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces a variety of poem types to students. It contains various forms of poetry with example poems.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing a Hello Poem
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students in the writing process to complete a poem about themselves.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry Introduction
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces several types of poetry, gives the elements and examples of each type. The types of poetry include color poetry, limericks, free verse, and couplets.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Desert Beneath the Sea Grade 4
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to accompany Scholastic Literacy Place's story Desert Beneath the Sea, and contains an introduction to the genre, vocabulary work, summarizing practice as well as a timeline...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction to Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches forms of poetry. It goes over a few key poetry definitions and then gives examples of a haiku and cinquain.
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write a Cinquain
At the most basic level a cinquain is a five line poem or stanza. Here are two variations. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
Application Magazine
Aplicaciones: Poesias Para Los Pequenos Y Para Los Mayores
On this website you will find 40 poems for elementary students and 40 poems for middle school age students. At the end of each one there is a quiz to test the comprehension.
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading
Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Worry Warts
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade: Reading Terms: Test
This interactive assessment features 7 matching, 7 multiple-choice, and 6 true/false questions over 34 terms relating to reading and their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade: Reading Terms: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 34 terms relating to reading and their definitions.
Other
Fun Lesson plans.com: Reading Lesson P Lans: Literature Circles
Improve your students' reading comprehension with these free literature circle worksheets.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, Grades 4 5
In 2006-2007, FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in fourth and fifth-grade classrooms. The 4-5 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD. The first two books contain Activity...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Poetry Games
Students will use this interactive exercise to play with words to strengthen their imaginations and their enjoyment of poetry in this SMART whiteboard activity.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: Teach Poetry in Less Than 10 Minutes Per Day
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...