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Middle school poetry thematic unit plans
Poetry Music Activities - Song Lyrics Assignments and Presentations Bundle
This poetry music activities, assignments, and presentations bundle will engage all your students in poetry analysis using song lyrics! Students will love this modern bundle of music-inspired poetry resources. Included are eye-catching presentations, poetry song lyrics assignments and projects, engaging activities, ready-to-print worksheets, and much more! By purchasing this bundle, you are saving more than 30% compared to purchasing these items separately! Included in this poetry music activiti
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7th - 10th
Slam Poetry Unit Plan--Middle-High School
Push students to write, revise, and publish multiple slam poems with this packed Slam Poetry Unit. Lesson plans built around thematically-curated, school-appropriate slam poems will challenge students' notions of poetry AND identity, encouraging them to use their voice and powerful poetic techniques to speak up for what is right and tell their story. The unit provides enough guidance, lesson plans, and materials for teachers to teach without hours of prep, while still leaving room for students
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6th - 12th
Shel Silverstein Poetry Analysis | Digital + Print
{UPDATE - MAY 2024} This fun resource guide is perfect for teaching poetry analysis while incorporating an author study of Shel Silverstein! It focuses on three of the author’s fun and engaging poems, with activity sheets that encourage your students to think critically about poetry and delve into figurative language. It also includes several non-specific activity sheets that can be used with any Shel Silverstein poem! Now includes activities available in Google Slides! ⭐PERFECT FOR LEARNING IN
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2nd - 6th
Complete Poetry Unit for Upper Elementary
This download contains everything that you need to teach a full two-week unit on poetry. Originally developed for use with my 6th-8th grade ESL language arts class, this unit is ideal for any mainstream language arts class between grades 4-8. The download is a zipped file containing .pdf files. Presentations are in pdf format and cannot be edited.There are over 200 pages of printables, lesson plans, poems, and powerpoint slides containing:-Introduction to Poetry Powerpoint with Cloze Notes-Poems
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5th - 8th
Poetry Mini Lessons, Surviving Senioritis & End-of-Year, BUNDLE of Five Poems
Capture the attention of every student - even those tough seniors - at the end of year in April and May with this low-prep, highly engaging bundle of activities and lessons for poetry! Teaching seniors can be challenging, especially when you round that Spring Break corner. Hey, who am I kidding? Mine never even make it that long! By the end of February, they are as restless as a willow in a windstorm! Over the years, I began to bring in some thematic poetry and interactive projects. I always f
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8th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis Guide Grades 3-8 - Digital & Printable Versions
This resource guide is perfect for teaching poetry analysis to your students (printable through Adobe PDF and digital version in Google Slides)! It includes 80+ pages in the printable version and 40 Google Slides (plus a how-to video to customize the Google version to your digital classroom). Scaffold and guide students through analyzing poetry, hitting on various skills along the way. Incorporate music lyrics and songs into your lessons to get your students motivated and excited about analyzi
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3rd - 8th
Poetry Elements 77-Slides PowerPoint - Reading - Poems - ELA - Writing - Example
This PowerPoint has 77 slides of information and examples. The presentation describes the following and provides examples: poetry, rhythm, rhyming patterns, alliteration, repetition, onomatopoeia, imagery, similes, metaphors, personification, stanzas and lines. The presentation also describes and shows examples of several types of poetry including: couplets, tercets, quatrains, cinquains, diamantes, haikus, senryus, concretes, free verse, acrostics, limericks and nonsense poems. The presentation
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3rd - 7th
To Kill a Mockingbird - Paired Passage BUNDLE
This product bundles my four TKAM Paired Passage Close Reading Annotations.
Each annotation contains a passage from the novel, a thematically paired poem, close reading directions, questions, a graphic organizer, and most have a writing prompt.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: To Kill a Mockingbird BUNDLE
"Poetry and Philosophy" POETRY UNIT (AP Literature/High School)
This is my full poetry unit that I teach in my AP English Literature and Composition class (which is up to date with the 2019 changes). While attempting to accomplish the analytical skill building necessary for success in AP Lit, I also nestle this unit in my "Literature and Philosophy" quarter. Engaging philosophical content drives the thematic focus of many lessons and the poems, adding to the cohesiveness and depth of the unit. The poems covered in the unit were written mainly by classic B
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Year BUNDLE!
Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry Activity Pack
'Twas the day before Christmas break and you need something else to do.... There are several activities included in this packet that you can use in your study of the famous poem, Twas the Night Before Christmas, also known as A Visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement C. Moore. Included are 2 versions of the poem. The first is written using numbered lines. This could be used for partner reading, fluency, or as a way of directing students to particular lines while choral reading or discussing the po
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Christmas ELA Writing and Short Story Bundle
Poetry Reading and Writing Unit: Fifth Grade
This 3 week reading and writing poetry unit comes with teacher and student resources for a 3 week rigorous and engaging poetry unit. Unit is available with color or black and white copies.
This 3 Week unit comes with:
-Unit plan to show daily reading and writing teaching suggestions for 3 weeks.
-Copy of a printable “Student Book” with cover, table of contents, 14 poems to study in reading and writing, and a list of key terms for students to understand.
-Additional student resources and printa
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4th - 6th
American Literature Introduction - Poetry, Music and Visual Media Unit
This three-week unit is an excellent introduction to American Literature and meets the needs of visual, auditory, and linguistic learners. Students are introduced to American voices and ideals through poetry, music, and art. The unit sets high expectations for close reading and literary analysis while also encouraging creativity. Furthermore, the unit encourages critical thinking by requiring students to synthesize texts with universal themes and incorporates all English Language Arts Common Cor
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8th - 11th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
Robert Frost Poems
Thanks for checking out my Robert Frost Author Study and Poem Analysis Packet. So many students (and teachers) shy away from poetry, because they don’t know what to do with it. Well, this packet is designed to help teachers teach and students understand. You will find a short bio on Robert Frost. Knowing the story behind the poet’s life will help students understand the purpose and tone. Also included are 6 poems written by Robert Frost. These poems are intended for 5th – 8th graders – the
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Famous Poets Analysis Bundle: Frost, Dickinson, Sandburg, & Stevenson
Love Poems Valentine's Day Poetry Analysis for Middle and High School ELA
There's nothing middle and high school kids love more than love gone wrong! Love and Love-ish Poetry Analysis includes five poems that students read and analyze to determine if the poems are true love poems or simply love-ish (love gone wrong!). After reading and analyzing a poem as a class, students read and analyze 2-3 poems of their choice independently. Using the poems as inspiration, students write a "Found Sonnet," a sonnet that uses words, phrases, and lines from existing poems to create
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7th - 10th
Poetry Playbook: Analysing Figurative Language and Meaning in Popular Songs
This comprehensive 30 slide/page package introduces students to literary devices, including: simile, metaphor, personification, allusion, alliteration, symbolism, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, oxymoron, and mood. After mastering the definition of a device, students apply that knowledge to unveil implicit meaning in songs that they love. Students "leave tracks of their thinking" by providing annotations and highlighting right on the page-- which promotes higher order and critical thinking over rote me
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Winter Poetry Unit with Annotations, Sample Explication Essays, & MORE!
This unit includes TEN poems by classic authors that involve winter in some respect. Some poems use winter to symbolize absence, others age, and still others unity. Five of these poems have a more positive representation of winter while the remaining five have a more negative representation of winter-- however, this is debatable! And that is exactly what students are going to do! I was feeling inspired by the winter and started researching classic poems about the season. What I came to real
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Master the Standards: RL2 with a Poetry "The Road Not Taken" Mini-unit
This poetry mini-unit for grades 6-10 will help students to master standard RL 2: Analyze the development of theme over the course of a text. In this mini-unit, students analyze the theme of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, looking at how the theme develops through the four stanzas. Students use the TP-CASTT method of poetry analysis to:
-Predict using the title.
-Paraphrase the poem.
-Analyze connotative language (figurative, imagery, and sounds).
-Analyze the attitude of the poem.
-Det
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6th - 10th
Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
The Odyssey Unit Activities - Inclusive Text Pairings - The Odyssey Worksheets
Ready to make your ODYSSEY unit more inclusive? This resource is part of a series to help teachers find supplements and updates for core texts in order to add more inclusivity to their curriculum. If you're teaching THE ODYSSEY, this resource will save you tons of time!Key Elements:✅ THE ODYSSEY themes✅ Essential questions for the epic poem✅ Literary elements in THE ODYSSEY✅ Three ready-to-go worksheets For each text, we share easy changes, like paired texts (videos, poems, articles, etc.) you c
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7th - 10th
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NO PREP Poetry Close Read Lessons
Having trouble teaching your students how to read complex text? Need help analyzing poetry? This product comes with step-by-step lesson plans and detailed teacher notes.
Included:
- Close Read Part 1 (Detailed First & Second Reads w/ teacher notes)
- Close Read Part 2 (Third Read-Line by line analysis of the poem)
- Close Read Part 3 (Fourth Read-Discovering Figurative Language)
- Poem - Autumn, Emily Dickinson
- Student Thinking Sheets (Two pages of Student Reading Tasks)
- Figurative La
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5th - 8th
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THE HIGHWAYMAN Scavenger Hunt
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This booklet contains twelve stations that aid in students exploration of the poem The Highwayman. Students will identify elements of figurative language including: metaphors, similes, personification, alliterations and more.
The download is formatted with a convenient booklet layout which can be stapled together making it easy for students to work through.
This booklet covers the following English Language Arts Benchmarks :
1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
• Poem not included
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7th - 9th
Fireside Poets Bundle: Longfellow, Bryant, Holmes, Lowell, & Whittier - CCSS
This is a bundle of our popular units from the early Fireside Poets. Students analyze diverse poems from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Students will: Delve into the context of each author's purpose, read the texts (included), engage with the vocabulary, collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, make inferences supported by evidence, and complete creative writing assignments. Each unit has daily l
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8th - 12th
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Taylor Swift Poetry Unit - Poetry Lessons
This include 7 classic poems:- Diamante- Cinquain- Haiku- Free Verse- Sonnet- Ballad- LimerickThis requires no preparation and can be your introduction to poetry! It could also serve as a final project or review. ALL poems are about Taylor Swift. You will see an example for every poem, as well as the instructions for the students to complete each style, independently.
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4th - 7th
Famous Poets Analysis Bundle: Frost, Dickinson, Sandburg, & Stevenson
Is poetry hard to teach? Do your students struggle with understanding the meaning of poems? Here's a tool for you to use that will make teaching Frost, Dickinson, Stevenson and Sandburg a lot easier for you and your students!You will find each of my units on Robert Frost (6 poems, analysis sheets & posters), Emily Dickinson (5 poems & analysis sheets), Carl Sandburg (6 poems, analysis sheets, teaching guide for "Skyscraper," and posters), and Robert Louis Stevenson (6 poems & analy
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5th - 8th
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Explore Oregon Regions (with bonus Descriptive Poetry and Tissue Painting)
Explore Oregon Regions come with a bonus lesson, Descriptive Poetry and Tissue Painting: 5-Sense Your Poetry Lessons. Read more below.Explore Oregon RegionsIn Explore Oregon Regions students learn about four regions of Oregon (Coastal, Cascades, Willamette Valley, Eastern) and consider how location influenced the lives of Native Americans. Activities use art, music, reading, speaking, and writing to bring information to life. Students make a salt dough map, sing a region song, research and prese
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3rd - 6th
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Learn more about poetry resources
Poetry encourages students to engage with language, explore their thoughts and feelings, and connect with the broader human experience. If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital poetry resources, look no further. TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
If you want to make poets out of younger students in elementary grades, then acrostic poems or fill in the blank poems are the perfect place to start. (In fact, many poetry resources on TPT include templates so your students can easily get started producing their own poetry, whether it’s a haiku, or limerick.) For older students in middle and high school, you can find an array of resources to teach them about everything from iambic pentameter, figurative language, to famous poets from history. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your students’ poetry skills in no time.
Fun and engaging poetry activities to try
Teaching students about poetry can be an engaging and creative experience. Here are a few ideas for poetry activities that you can find on TPT to help you introduce and explore the world of poetry with your students:
Poetic Device Scavenger Hunt
Distribute some poems and have students identify and highlight poetic devices like similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. Discuss what these are and the overall impact on the reader's experience.
Poetry Analysis Jigsaw
Divide students into small groups, assigning each group a different poem. Have each group analyze the assigned poem's themes, tone, and literary devices, and present their findings to the class.
Poetry Slam or Performance
Organize a poetry slam where students can perform poems they’ve written themselves or those written by famous poets. This will help build confidence and strengthen their public speaking skills.
Writing Poetry from Different Perspectives
Ask students to write a poem from the perspective of an inanimate object or an animal to foster empathy and encourage creative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Creating Found Poetry
Provide magazines, newspapers, or online articles. Have students cut out interesting words and phrases, and use them to create their own unique poems.
These (and other!) activities can help deepen your students’ appreciation for poetry and enhance their creative writing skills.
Frequently asked questions about teaching poetry
What types of poetry resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of poetry resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular poetry lessons include learning how to write haikus, acrostic poems, limericks, and free verse.
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