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Poetry Unit Poetry Writing Bundle
This Poetry Unit makes teaching poetry writing NO PREP! This is a complete FIVE week Poetry Writing Unit for writer's workshop! Students are introduced to writing 14 different styles of poetry. All you have to do is print and teach.Original poem examples are included for every poem (so you don't have to think of one!). Google Slides™ version of Student Planning Pages and Final Copy Pages are included too!THIS UNIT WILL DO ALL THE WORK FOR YOU in guiding students through 14 DIFFERENT STYLES OF PO
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2nd - 4th
36 Main Idea & Details ELA Reading Skills Practice Worksheets
Give your students the skills they need to find/tackle any main idea or supporting detail question with these 36 ELA reading drills! Each worksheet includes tips that reinforce effective reading strategies, and can be used to drive home the fundamentals or prep for test day! Bundle this item & save: Core ELA Value Bundle | READING! Grade 3 | READING! Grade 4 & 5THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES: 36 ELA comprehension drills (24 informational texts / 12 fiction passages) 135+ simulat
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3rd - 5th
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Poetry Unit for Primary Grades {Poetry Journal for Poetry Month}
This poetry unit makes writing poetry simple and fun for your students! It is also a teacher friendly unit that has everything you need in one download! No prep needed, simply print and teach!This unit covers a total of 28 different poems. Each poem has a teacher explanation sheet with a poem example, as well as a writing template for your students to use as they write their own poem!This unit can be covered in a 1-5 week time frame, depending on how long you want to spend on each type of poem
Alphabet Poems and Activities for Shared Reading
This Alphabet Poetry Journal includes engaging alphabet poems for each letter! Perfect for shared reading and literacy stations. These ABC Poems are great for learning letter names a-z, letter sounds, rhyming, and letter and word discrimination. Excellent interactive alphabet activities and repeated reading practice for preschool and kindergarten readers!✅ Activities for each letter include:Read the alphabet poemCircle the lettersColor the words that begin with the letterDraw a picture of one wo
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Alphabet Activities Pack
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Area and Perimeter Project Based Learning Math Activity
Step into the world of engaging and hands-on math exploration with this resource. This project-based learning activity takes students on a thrilling journey as they design their own dream house, while simultaneously mastering the concepts of area and perimeter.Through the use of a house layout grid, students will estimate area by strategically placing furniture and counting squares and partial squares. This real-world, open-ended task prompts critical thinking as they tackle questions related to
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Math Activities BUNDLE
Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades
This poetry unit for first and second grade gets students writing both form and free-verse poems as they let their creativity fly!My students love to write poetry as a break from our traditional writing units. They really buy into the "no rules" aspect of free-verse poetry and when I show them different examples of poetry, they tend to take off and make many different writing pieces. I hope you and your students have as much fun as we do with this one!In this unit:Teacher Examples for each type
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year
Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension
3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity (Printed & Digital)
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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5th - 10th
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MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Decodable Passages for Orton-Gillingham Lessons Level 1
Are you seeking truly decodable phonics reading passages? Orton-Gillingham decodable reading passages is a collection of 44 decodable phonics passages with controlled text for level one. It is suitable to use with Orton-Gillingham lesson plans. The Literacy Nest is the decodable text source for a wide variety of text to support your students with a systematic, sequential progression. Looking for additional fluency work to support your readers? Decodable RAN charts and phrasing charts have been a
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Decodable Passages for Orton-Gillingham Lessons BUNDLE
Halloween STEM Activities | Fall STEM Activities for October | Halloween Science
Halloween STEM Activities will keep your kids engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!This bundle includes the following 6 Halloween STEM activities:⭐ Bone Bridge® STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Creature Catcher STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Ghosts in the Graveyard STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Treat Toss STEM Challenge Activity ⭐ Wings Wanted STEM Challenge Activity⭐ Halloween STEM Improv Activity (336 possible combinations!)The basic idea: In the 5 Halloween STEM Challenge Activities, students
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2nd - 8th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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The Dot by Peter Reynolds Tower Builder READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity Dot Day STEM
Create Bravely! Integrate STEM while students learn and develop a Growth Mindset through this Dot Day STEM Challenge! The Dot STEM activity works as a great companion to The Dot by Peter Reynolds. This is an excellent International Dot Day Activity.Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on
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1st - 4th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Growth Mindset READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges Dot Day
Figurative Language Task Cards & Game {Similes, Metaphors, Alliteration & MORE!}
Figurative Language Task Cards cover figurative language in a fun way! Figurative language types covered include similes, metaphors, personification & alliteration! Task cards can be used to teach/review figurative language with Scoot, small groups, centers, or whatever else you can think of!What do you get?✔ 32 figurative language task cards✔ Owl themed gameboard✔ Recording Sheet✔ Answer KeyTypes of Figurative Language Included:★ Similes★ Metaphors★ Personification★ AlliterationOptions fo
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3rd - 6th
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Goldilocks STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Challenges
What do you get when you combine fairy tales and STEM? A fun, hands-on STEM Tale! This fairy tale with a twist guides students through the engineering design process to create a new bed for Goldilocks. The storybook can be read aloud together. Students will complete it as they work through the STEM activity.The STEM ActivityYour students will help Baby Bear build Goldilocks a new bed of her own! In this story, there is a bit of a twist that will tap into SEL topics like empathy.What You'll Get:T
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Poetry Activities and Resources WITH Poems - Poetry Comprehension with Digital
Are you looking for poetry activities to help your students understand and analyze poems? And you need the poems included to save you time and energy? This set of poetry activities and resources is just what you need!About the Poetry Activities and ResourcesThis is a poetry resource to help teach understanding and analyzing poetry and poetry comprehension.This poetry resource DOES NOT teach the different types of poems and it DOES NOT teach students how to write poetry. Many of the poems in the
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4th - 5th
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Adding & Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators Digital Escape Room
Practicing addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators takes on a new level of excitement in this online breakout game. Escape the arcade is a great alternative to adding & subtracting fractions worksheets and activities. Instead of winning prizes at the arcade, your students need to earn tickets to get a key to escape the arcade! This activity can be completed either in class or online for distance learning. There are no clues to hide, and the entire process is automated
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4th - 6th
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LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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Figurative Language Poetry Using Taylor Swift Pop Song Lyrics
Similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and idioms are practiced through lyrics by the one and only Taylor Swift in this fun pack! (And yes, fellow Swifties, every era is covered through Midnights.)Your students are bound to go crazy over analyzing song lyrics in their ELA studies.This pack includes eight activities:SimilesMetaphorsPersonificationHyperboleAlliterationIdiomsSimile or Metaphor?Name That Poetic Device
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Figurative Language and Poetic Devices Using Pop Lyrics Bundle
Nursery Rhymes Poetry Book
Reinforce high frequency words (sight words) with this hands-on, super interactive Nursery Rhymes Poetry Book! NEW! Use TpT's new tool to create a customized, interactive digital layer to this resource and assign to students via Google Classroom!Try FREE sample pages of this resource HERE!Included in this download:-2 label printouts & 1 Book Cover Page (Choose which you'd like!)One says "Nursery Rhymes Poetry Book" and the other says "Take Home - Please bring me back to school every single d
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Nursery Rhymes Bundle: Poetry Book & Emergent Readers Set
Shades of Meaning: A Cooperative Vocabulary & Language Center {Common Core}
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I created this 21st century vocabulary center to give my students a meaningful opportunity to work independently with others in a cooperative, collaborative and critical thinking setting, without me to work on and increase vocabulary and language. Students practice the 21st century skill of empathy while they follow "agreed upon rules of discussion" to evaluate and justify 8 synonyms and sometimes antonyms and all the shades o
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2nd - 8th
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THINK! Math Enrichment Activities (4-5)
These math enrichment activities are a highly engaging way to challenge your little geniuses and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills while building a deep and solid understanding of various math concepts. Each of the 15 printable activities offers an interesting, non-routine way to explore essential math concepts and skills.
* This enrichment packet is designed for gifted 4th and 5th grade students. *
Check out THINK! Math Enrichment Acti
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4th - 6th
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Make Ten Math Puzzle
The Make Ten math game is a triangle puzzle. Each side of the triangle has a number that can be used to add up to the number ten. The file includes 4 black and white pages of numbered triangles and one blank page of triangles in case you want to write in some of your own combinations. This is great for practicing addition facts, or for critical thinking skills.
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1st - 3rd
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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
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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.
How do I find poetry resources on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing poetry lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for poetry resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of poetry lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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