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Free Verse Poetry Rubric Printables & Template

Free Verse Poetry Rubric

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewFollow poetry instruction with a four-category rubric designed to guide budding poets' writing of free verse poetry. 
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30 Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month Writing Prompt

30 Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month

6th - 10th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewA collection of writing prompts are so fun, you'll want to finish them yourself! Learners practice narrative prose and poetry skills with prompts that twist traditional structure, provide wild vocabulary, and encourage pupils to...
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Blackout Poetry: Re-Envisioning Writing Lesson Plan

Blackout Poetry: Re-Envisioning Writing

10th - 11th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewShed light on the beauty of language with a great poetry activity. After learning about Austin Kleon's blackout poetry model, pupils respond to some of his poetry and uses it as a model to produce their own. Young writers also share...
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Reading Literature: 7th Grade ELA Common Core
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Reading Literature: 7th Grade ELA Common Core

7th
Seventh grade is a great opportunity to take your literature unit to the next cognitive level. Challenge middle schoolers with a collection of Common Core aligned projects, lessons, and activities, all designed to enhance the learning experience with different works of literature.
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Identity and Place Lesson Plan

Identity and Place

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewBuild scholars' ability to understand their own values and learn about World War II at the same time. Scholars write poetry and discuss identity and place in depth with an in-depth social studies resource. 
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Fidgety Philip Audio

Fidgety Philip

2nd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewA four-minute audio book features the poem "Fidgety Philip" by Heinrich Hoffmann. Follow along as a young boy who has a difficulty staying still makes a mess of dinner all over himself and his parents.
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Getting to the Core: Early American Poets Unit

Getting to the Core: Early American Poets

11th
CCSS: Designed
New ReviewHow do poets convey emotion and represent their views of life? Pupils learn more about Whitman and Dickinson through the unit and analyze their bold reinvention of craft and style for poets to come. Looking at classic pieces such as...
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Making Inferences – Use Your Mind to Read! Unit

Making Inferences – Use Your Mind to Read!

2nd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewHow can you tell if someone is happy? The lesson works with elementary and middle school scholars to activate their schema and pay attention to details to make inferences in their daily lives, poetry, and other literature. Cleverly...
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Poetry from the Trenches of World War I Lesson Plan

Poetry from the Trenches of World War I

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
New ReviewOften, the real-life experiences of soldiers gets lost back home when the war seems so far away. Scholars investigate the personal side of World War I in the trenches of Europe to complete a collaborative social studies activity. When...
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A Poetic Revolution Unit

A Poetic Revolution

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewWhitman and Dickinson are poet rebels responsible for the birth of Modernism. The resource comes complete with a selection of poetry from each, such as "Song of Myself" (Whitman) and "Because I could not Stop for Death" (Dickinson), as...
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Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith" and Whitman's "Song of Myself" Lesson Plan

Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith" and Whitman's "Song of Myself"

11th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Although the work Americans do has changed over time, the plight of the American worker has largely remained the same. Facilitate a class discussion aboutAmerican workers using Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith" and...
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Core Assessment Module: I Too Sing America Assessment

Core Assessment Module: I Too Sing America

7th
CCSS: Designed
What does being an American mean? Scholars explore this question through Langston Hughes' poem, "I, Too, Sing America." The sixth of 10 lessons is scaffolded to begin with taking notes about the poem, then have learners complete a...
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Summer Reading Project Activities & Project

Summer Reading Project

3rd - 4th
CCSS: Adaptable
Summer means sun, fun, and a good book! Boost scholars' enthusiasm and proficiency in reading with a summer project of their choice—a book jacket, collage, or shoe box diorama. A variety of titles and authors from every genre offers...
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An Introduction to T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood Video

An Introduction to T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood

3 mins 11th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Do poets need to be familiar with strategies and techniques use by past and contemporary poets in order to be successful? They do according to T.S. Eliot. An intriguing video offers an overview of the key ideas in T.S. Eliot's The Sacred...
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Theme Poems: Using the Five Senses Lesson Plan

Theme Poems: Using the Five Senses

1st - 3rd
CCSS: Designed
Introduce shape poems with help from the book Flicker Flash by Joan Bransfield Graham. Pupils discuss and describe what a shape poem is and how it is made prior to drafting an example poem. Once budding poets are ready, pupils compose...
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A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry Lesson Plan

A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry

K - 2nd
CCSS: Designed
Scholars work collaboratively to compose a found poem from one of their favorite stories. With a finished product in hand, class members form a circle and perform their work for an audience by taking turns reciting one line till the poem...
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Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things Lesson Plan

Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things

1st - 2nd
CCSS: Designed
Budding poets create two acrostic poems, one for their name and another using a word of their choice. Over the course of five days, scholars compose, revise, publish, and share their work with their peers.
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A Classroom Guide to Peter H. Reynolds's Creatrilogy Activities & Project

A Classroom Guide to Peter H. Reynolds's Creatrilogy

3rd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Help young readers find, identify, and use their voices with a set of empowering activities based on Peter H. Reynolds' trilogy of books. Sky Color, Ish, and The Dot focus on recognizing moods and treating each other kindly, and their...
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Math Poems Worksheet

Math Poems

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
The logic, rhythm, and beauty of math sometimes get lost amidst numbers and variables. Amplify math's lyricism with a poetry project that uses metaphors and similes to compare mathematical concepts to other images.
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Early American Poets Unit

Early American Poets

11th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
The poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are the focus of a unit that asks readers to consider how an artist's life and changes in society influences his or her work. After careful study of Whitman's and Dickinson's perspectives on...
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Teaching Emily Dickinson: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar Presentation

Teaching Emily Dickinson: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Three of Emily Dickinson's poems, "I like to see it," "Because I could not stop for Death," and "We grow accustomed to the Dark," provide instructors with an opportunity to model for class members how to use close reading strategies to...
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Winter Printables Collection
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Winter Printables Collection

Pre-K - 2nd
Enrich your winter theme with ABCmouse! This collection of printables features coloring pages, a writing activity, and a paint-by-words worksheet. Use these printables as fun in-class activities, or send them home with your students as a great home-school connection. Create your FREE ABCmouse for Teachers account to access these and thousands of other resources for preschool through 2nd grade. Visit www.ABCmouse.com/Teachers to sign up.
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Creating a Bio Poem Handouts & Reference

Creating a Bio Poem

4th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Find out what's special about your pupils with a fun biopoem activity! As they fill out their name, words that describe them, what they love, and what they dream of, learners create an expressive poem about themselves.
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Poe’s “The Raven” – Unity of Effect Lesson Plan

Poe’s “The Raven” – Unity of Effect

9th - 10th
CCSS: Designed
How do Poe's choices of imagery, rhythm and rhyme scheme, and structure help build the desired single effect of "The Raven"? After listening to a dramatic reading of the poem, class members consider whether Poe's choices do create a...
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