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Scholastic

Who Am I? What Has Made Me Who I Am?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
"Everything we have seen and touched and heard and experienced has, in some way, made us who we are." Your young learners will use this resource to create lists of influences (people, animal, nature, places, etc.) in their lives and to...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian In Your Classroom: The Music in Poetry

For Teachers K - 12th
Take poetry off the page and put it into terms of movement, physical space and, finally, music with this series of three lessons from the Smithsonian Institution. This resource introduces students to two poetic forms that originated as...
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Curated OER

Acrostic Book Report

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils read the story Wild Horse Winter and construct acrostic poems. In this poetry lesson plan, students use adjectives and events in the text to develop an acrostic poem.
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Curated OER

Personal Poetry Books

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils work in the classroom and in the computer lab to produce a Personal Poetry Book.
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Curated OER

Ocean Life Poetry: Limericks & Cinquain Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young oceanographers conduct independent online research to learn about ocean life, explore limerick and cinquain poem structure and syllabication, and produce poetry that conveys the information they found. Links don't work, but it's...
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Curated OER

Poetry Beyond Words: Creating Poetry with Linguistically Diverse Students

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Models of and directions for how to write 20 different types of poems are featured in an NCTE resource. The introduction to each form highlights the embedded concepts. For example, tongue twisters encourage poets to use alliteration and...
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Curated OER

Annotating Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Use text marking and highlighting to explore the structure of a poem. After listening to Allan Ahlberg read "Please Mrs. Butler," learners locate stanzas and patterns on their copy of the poem using the text marking technique. Class...
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Curated OER

Animal Acrostic

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
In this animal acrostic worksheet, students read a short poem. Afterward, they answer questions about the poem and then write their own acrostic poetry. Students share their poetry with a friend, and guess what type of animal is described.
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Curated OER

Discussing Poetry In Class

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate syllabic metre and rhyming techniques by analyzing poetry.  In this language arts lesson, students read the poem Considering the Snail and discuss the nature and mood of the poem with their classmates....
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Curated OER

Dinosaur Acrostic Poem

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing poetry learning exercise, students explore acrostic poems. Students write an acrostic poem by using the eight letters in the word "dinosaur" to describe a dinosaur.
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Curated OER

October Acrostic Poem

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this poetry activity, students use the letters in the word October to create an acrostic poem. The activity has the letters and lines already in a vertical position.
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McGraw Hill

Phonics Teachers Resource Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the...
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ReadWriteThink

Alliteration All Around

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Discover alliteration found in picture books by Pamela Duncan Edwards. Then, dive into a read aloud of Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak. This practice sets the stage for budding poets to create their own acrostic poem,...
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Curated OER

Structured Diamante Poem

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Youngsters review nouns, adjectives and verbs. In this poetry lesson plan, readers choose a set of antonyms and create a list of synonyms, verbs and adjective for each. Students use the words to write a Diamante poem.
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Curated OER

Bringing Household Items to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use folk tales as inspiration for learning about and using personification in creative writing. Learners brainstorm together in order to practice personification before writing their own poems or paragraphs about a household object.
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Poetry4kids

Simile and Metaphor Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Similes and metaphors are the focus of a poetry lesson complete with two exercises. Scholars read poetry excerpts, underline comparative phrases, then identify whether it contains a simile or metaphor. They then write five...
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Poetry4kids

Rhyme Schemes Lesson Plan

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars read four brief poems and analyze their word usage in order to identify the rhyme scheme. 
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Curated OER

Antarctica Acrostic Poem

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Antarctica poetry activity, students first read about how to write an acrostic poem. Students write an acrostic poem using the letters in ANTARCTICA. Each line of poetry will begin with the letters that are printed down in a column.
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Teacher's Corner

Haiku

For Students 3rd - 7th
The haiku, one of the most popular fixed forms, is the subject of this writing activity, the seventh in a series of ten poetry exercises.
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Curated OER

Chinese Landscape Painting

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders learn about Chinese poetry and landscape paintings, then create their own. They view several examples and discuss the elements of each, then paint their own landscape inspired by what they saw. They then listen to, read,...
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Curated OER

Camels (Acrostic Poem)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing and language arts worksheet, students use the letters in CAMELS to begin each line of an acrostic poem. Students may use a sentence, word or phrase for each line.
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Curated OER

Write Your Own Poem 'ot'

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rhyming words worksheet, students complete four exercises with rhyming words. Students identify the rhyming words, pair the words, write a silly sentence with the words, and make up their own poem.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Write Your Own Poem 'Ug'

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rhyming words worksheet, students color the words that rhyme with bug, put the words that rhyme with bug into pairs, make a silly sentence with the 'ug' words, and write a poem using the 'ug' words from the word bank.
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Curated OER

Write Your Own Poem 'ill'

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rhyming words worksheet, students complete four activities that help them learn consonant blend words using the 'ill' sound. Students make rhyming words using the blend, and make a silly sentence and poems with the words.

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