Teaching Themes
Poetry Month: Everything You Need
Teaching resources and ideas to help you read, write, and share poems.
Book Resources, Lesson Plans
National Poetry Month Activities
Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
Teacher recommendations for ways to celebrate National Poetry Month in the classroom.
Writing Activities, Unit Plans
Haiku - Poetry of the Samurai Warrior
Grades: 6–8
Encourages students to learn about ancient Japanese Samurai through reading, repsonding to, and writing haiku.
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Lesson Plans How to Read a PoemGrades: 3–5, 6–8 With this activity, you can offer your students reading strategies that will allow them to enjoy sophisticated and subtle writing of all kinds. |
Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities Poetry: A Writing With Writers ActivityGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Your students will study poetry with these step-by-step workshops hosted by popular poets. |
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Unit Plans Using Poetry to Explore Change and BelongingGrades: 6–8 In this unit plan from veteran teacher Kechia Williams, students read poems on change and growth and contemplate the idea of belonging. |
Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Writing Activities Poetry Idea Engine: A Writing With Writers ActivityGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 This activity taps into your students' creativity by challenging them to write haikus, free verse, limericks, and more. |
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Writing Activities, Lesson Plans ChangeGrades: 6–8 Expose students to the many elements of poetry. Explore issues of growth and change with suggested discussion questions. |
Articles Teaching Content Subjects Using PoetryGrades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Learn how to use poems both as a way for students to learn and remember your subject’s content and to help create strong readers and thinkers. |
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Articles, Authors and Illustrators, Book Resources A Poet Finds His Voice: Langston's Train Ride by Robert BurleighGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 |
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