Classroom resources
Plan and analyze poetry with graphic organizers for poetic forms, sensory language and biography. Writing collections and reading activities offer related practice.
Browse by lesson focus
Choose the topic or kind of practice you need.
Showing 1–24 of 41 resources
Show filters
Teach students the two forms of color poetry (a) starting each line with the color name, and (b) describing a color using the five senses, via instructional posters and fill-in graphic organizers, for a K-3 poetry unit.
Teaches students what a sensory (five-senses) poem is and provides graphic organizers/templates for planning and writing one.
Guides students to research a historical woman and write an acrostic biographical poem about her.
Teach students what list poetry is and provide graphic organizer templates for writing their own list poems.
A full lesson plan and project package that has students read a poetry book, analyze 10 poems in a written report, and present one poem to the class.
A set of 'mastery wheel' graphic organizers and answer sheets that let teachers target individual 7th grade Common Core Reading Literature standards using any short story, poem, drama, or novel the class is reading.
Teach students how words and phrases (rhythm, rhyme, repetition) create meaning in a poem, using the included poem 'Run, Run, Run' and a graphic organizer that can be reused with any poem.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
A Poetry Month research and writing activity in which students research an assigned poet and write a short biography summary.
A companion to the Four Square Writing Method: guides students through 13 theme-based personal-narrative units, moving from prewriting (art, word association) to organized written pieces.
A set of end-of-year creative writing and reflection activities styled as paper versions of social media apps/posts (Facebook-style profile, Twitter-style post, Instagram-style vacation posts, etc.).
Guides students through independent biographical research on Emily Dickinson and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
Mini-unit on setting ('Poetry of Place: Searching for Setting'), using Raina Telgemeier's Ghosts as mentor text; the PDF itself is a 2-page description/link page directing to an editable Google Doc version of the resource.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Dante Alighieri and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
Novel study guide for 'The Whipping Boy' by Sid Fleischman; vocabulary work is based on Bloom's Taxonomy.
A writing-coach workbook building personal narrative writing skills for grades 1-3 using the 'Four Square' writing method.
A 61-page read-aloud book companion of 44 activities for the novel 'Benno and the Night of Broken Glass' by Meg Wiviott (a Kristallnacht-era historical fiction picture book), covering comprehension, character analysis, and response-to-literature skills.
A packet that introduces students to Renaissance poetry themes (pastoral, carpe diem) and Shakespearean sonnet structure as preparation for reading Shakespeare's Macbeth, using close reading and graphic organizers.
A book-companion / interactive read-aloud packet built around the picture book 'A Sweet Smell of Roses' by Angela Johnson, covering story elements, character analysis, theme, symbolism, poetry response, and creative writing tied to the Civil Rights Movement setting of the book.
A literature-based teaching unit built around the picture book "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth, combining a Jane Goodall biography study with vocabulary, comprehension, and craft activities.
Give teachers a large set of print-and-go reading-comprehension activities to use alongside a read-aloud of the picture book Brave Irene by William Steig.
Contains poem, graphic organizer for analysis, graphic organizer for literary devices, and answer key.
Teach students the features, themes, and famous examples of elegy poetry and guide them through writing an original elegy.
A poetry-writing resource that teaches what a couplet is and provides graphic organizer templates for students to write their own rhyming couplets.