Students discuss the right and wrong actions of a young Navajo boy. Using that information, they compare and contrast his culture to their own. In groups, they create a newspaper or poster showing the cultural contributions of the...

Students play percussion instruments that have been divided into four groups and perform to 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm'. In this percussion performance lesson, students identify percussion instruments divided into four categories....

Students explore how various artists use color, line and composition to create a mood. In comparison, students explore various elements of specific art forms that affect the viewer's emotions in dance, theater music and the visual...

In this spelling worksheet, students read 20 clues and determine the correct answer word. Students fit the words in a crossword puzzle. There is no word box. This is apparently related to a grade 4 spelling list, not available here.

This lesson teaches students to create an original poem based on select words and phrases from a prose piece. Also encourages students to model poetic forms after found poems.

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.

This series of lessons introduces children to Longfellow's poetry and provides them with an opportunity to write their own. There is also the opportunity to take a virtual tour of the poet's home, and to be a curator examining artifacts...

After reading the picture book Come on, Rain by Karen Hesse, which discusses how the weather both helps and harms the community, students bring tools from home to represent what their parents do for a living. They will present these...

This resource offers guidance through the writing process of writing funny poetry. There are instructions on how to write a clerihew and an exaggeration poem.

Learners will learn how to use theory to practice methods to help them discuss the meaning of written texts. Student objectives and instructional plans are provided. Some resources on this link may need additional software to operate...

Do you know how to write a diamante poem? Check out this site to learn how to accomplish this task. This site features a lesson plan for writing poetry.

In this lesson, Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur Mentor, Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli, and Henry & The Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall are used as mentor texts. Students will practice their acrostic skills on the tail...

Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.

A printable, two-page graphic organizer to help students brainstorm ideas and write a rough draft of a haiku. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.

Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...

This site describes how a Bio poem can be used to teach learners to focus on the characteristics of a person or an animal, anything or anyone really. It requires the student to put themselves in the subject's shoes. Lesson plan indicated...

This site describes how a 5W poem is a good way to teach children to identify and focus on the five W's of a story or an event. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.

You can brush up on your "I Spy" riddles and rhymes when you explore this site. Jean Marzollo guides you through the process of creating your very own poetry.

After reading/listening to the picture book When I Was Five by Arthur Howard, students will compare themselves today to a time in their life when they were younger. After determining exactly how old you will be in your younger state and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An introductory flipchart of images that can be used as a stimulus for writing poetry about the environment. The images could be used for discussion to gather ideas on what can be done to save the planet.

This is a template for "I Am" poetry. Young scholars will focus on their own characteristics as they create an autobiographical poem.

An explanation of personification and how it is used in poetry followed by a personification maker. Young scholars push the buttons to create a personification and then write a poem that uses and expands on it.

This site is a three-part lesson plan that teaches students how to write and depict seasonal imagery through haiku. Students study, listen to, and create original haiku on colored backgrounds.

Students click and drag the words on magnetic tiles to write poetry. Their are options to add words, start over, and/or save and share their poems.