Lesson on crafting and revising lines of poetry. Lineation and enjambment are defined and explored. A Robert Creeley poem is analyzed, and a video of his poem is presented. [1:31]

This is a self-guided learning unit on the topic of poetry. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, learning activities, and related literature. Learn how to analyze poetry, appreciate figurative language, and...

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...

Online lesson plan offers teachers the ability to teach a "Four-square," strategy technique for poetic terms. Students explore websites and define terms such as alliteration, assonance, simile, and rhyme.

Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.

This two-page PDF is a list of poetic devices and their definitions compiled by the Undergraduate Writing Center, of The University of Texas at Austin.

Provides some good, practical advice on writing poems. Written in a simple, down-to-earth style that is easily accessible. An outline at the top of the page will lead you to different sections of the page. Part of a larger poetry...

The New York Times Learning Network has developed interactive and printable crossword puzzles. The theme of this puzzle is poetry.

This site describes how a Bio poem can be used to teach students 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...

In this lesson, Have You Seen Trees?, a book written by Joanne Oppenheim, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, a book written by Gail Gibbons, are used as mentor texts. As a post-reading activity, students will record facts about the...

This lesson focuses on Annotation, a "writing-to-learn" strategy. It consists of writing explanatory notes and critical (analytical) commentary to yourself. Annotating text consists of two steps: (1) underlining, highlighting, circling,...

A definition of personification. Includes two examples- one from the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the other from John Keats' poem "To Autumn."

This printable worksheet tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.

Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to make connections between literary texts and popular culture texts like song lyrics. After checking popular culture texts for literary elements, these elements are then examined in...

An online model of a twelfth-grade analysis of the poem "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning. Provides excellent style, structure, and analytical techniques, as well as notations and aids for student support. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

Printable form to reinforce student's understanding of onomatopoeia.

This lesson introduces zeugma and goes over how it is used in writing.

First Lines is a strategy in which students read the beginning sentences from assigned readings and make predictions about the content of what they're about to read. This pre-reading technique helps students focus their attention on what...