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Poetry pdfs for GATE
Haiku Tunnel Books: Art & Haiku Writing Project using Postcards for Prompts
Tunnel books are unique and fun! A tunnel book is a three-dimensional movable book that you read by looking through it. Originally from the mid-18th century, tunnel books are enjoying new popularity as an art form in their own right. The tunnel books you've seen may look complicated, but I've developed a method that simplifies the process so that students from 3rd or 4th grade and up can be successful making tunnel books of their own. We'll use a postcard as a prompt for writing an original haik
Poetry Centers
Add PIZZAZZ to your poetry unit!This resource includes 78 printable pages that can be used as poetry centers in your classroom after each skill/strategy is explicitly taught. The centers are designed to reteach and reinforce. ALSO...the resources could also easily be adapted to use with your whole class as a guided activity! If applicable, most of the direction sheets match up with recording sheets for reflection. Each center was created to address the Common Core Standards in a Readers Workshop
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2nd - 5th
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Cinquain Poetry Template Pack | Cinquain Poem Activities | Print & Digital
Looking for a terrific cinquain poem template? This Cinquain Poem Template resource has four unique cinquain templates and much, much more!This Cinquain Poetry Template resource has the templates you need. No more searching for what you need for cinquains in class! There's so much variety in levels that you can use it in grade levels 3 - 12!With an included digital version, this cinquain template pack will work for you whether you're teaching in-person or using virtual instruction.This cinquain
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3rd - 11th
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Also included in: National Poetry Month Activities | Cinquain Poem Mini Unit
Distance Learning Poetry Writing: Digital Where I'm From Poem
This PDF download contains a link for Interactive Google Slides. I designed this product to help my students create "Where I'm From" poems as inspired by George Ella Lyon. Slides 2-5 : Students will begin by reading and annotating the original poem. This always sparks great discussions as students unwrap Lyon's figurative language. Slides 7 – 16 : Students will plan for their own poem by describing important memories, people, places, and objects. There are 8 categories in which students will br
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4th - 8th
WE WEAR THE MASK POEM & ART | Inside Outside Poem Dunbar BLACK HISTORY MONTH
In this no-prep, easy-to-use unit inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” poem, students will use art and poetry to deeply analyze the masks we wear, distinguish between their inside vs. outside character and personality traits, and represent these findings through a self-created mask. This engaging activity turns this abstract concept into an activity that is high-interest, easy to understand, and memorable!This The Mask I Wear Product Includes 12 NO PREP, easy-to-use pages:•Pages
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5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: BLACK HISTORY MONTH ART POETRY PERSONALITY | We Wear the Mask Dunbar
Literary Elements Secret Picture Puzzle Tiles Literary Devices Activity
Looking for a great literary elements activity that students enjoy? This set of 10 secret picture puzzles covers a vast list of literary terms and literary devices (nearly 100 in all!). They're surprisingly low prep for how much they teach about literary devices. Students cut the pieces apart and match the meaning or example to the literary device or story element. When they do it correctly, they make a completed picture. Can you say "self-checking?" Do your students love secret picture tiles ye
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6th - 8th
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Twas the Night Before Christmas Common Core Study Guide for Middle School
Introduce the classic holiday poem to your students with rigor and creative thinking! This product includes the text of the poem, a vocabulary activity, questions about form/style, and an SBAC style SCR. The SCR also includes a template for students to follow in order to write a solid paragraph response. Finally, there is an art project assignment, with rubric, to support the focus on imagery in the assignment.
It is based on 7th grade standards, but due to the cyclical nature of the Common Co
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas and Winter Holiday Mega Middle School Bundle-Save 50%
Poetry: Meter & Scansion
A resource giving an overview of meter and the rhythm of poetry.
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8th - 12th
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National Poetry Month Activities | Cinquain Poem Mini Unit
Looking for fantastic activities for National Poetry Month? This Cinquain Poem Unit Bundle has everything you need for an amazing cinquain poetry unit for your students. It's loaded with a student-facing video that will teach your students everything they need to know about cinquain poems. You'll get a PowerPoint in case you'd prefer to teach yourself.Start to finish, everything is provided for you.You get three resources that will make your students cinquain poetry shine!☀️First, you get the Ci
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Not Grade Specific
Abandoned Farmhouse Author's Craft/Purpose Questions and Imagery Chart
This product contains questions which ask students to identiify and examine the strategies used by the poet in order to determine his message. These are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. The chart requires students to find examples of imagery and explain the purpose of each. Answers are provided for all activities.
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6th - 9th
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Weekly Reading Log with Depth and Complexity Icons Bundle
Help your readers stay on track with this weekly reading log. We use this as homework but it could easily be used in the classroom as well.Students track their daily reading, including title, time spent reading, and pages read. On the back, there is space for a text response. At the end of the week, readers add up their pages and time spent reading. A space for a parent signature is the final piece.The icons of depth and complexity (often called GATE Icons) are added so that students may thi
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3rd - 8th
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Thesaurus and Poetry Writing Robert Frost's Dust of Snow Early & Middle Grades
Raise students' thesaurus skills to incredible heights using Robert Frost's poem "Dust of Snow." Your students will love the gorgeous visuals included to awaken all of their senses. This lesson is perfect for early elementary and middle elementary students who need to develop their thesaurus skills and address poetry standards. They'll rewrite Frost's poem using what they gained from the thesaurus work they've done, creating fabulous poems based on the mentor text.Using the provided discussion g
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2nd - 4th
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Rhyming Poetry Second Grade Poems and Rhyme Activities Charades
Let's teach rhyme in poetry using a series of activities guaranteed to have your students asking for more! This resource offers your students to learn about rhyme thorugh class discussion and a super fun small group charades activity. Then, they'll practice some more with "My Neighbor's Dog is Purple." Students get visualization practice while they sketch out the beginning, middle, and end of the poem as you read aloud. There's even a writing prompt!The resource is divided so you can use the ent
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2nd - 3rd
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Beware: Do Not Read This Poem by Ismael Reed Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These questions require students to identify and examine the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. They are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. I have also included teacher notes for class discussion.
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8th - 11th
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Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg Poem Analysis Poetry Writing CCSS Exemplar Text
If your students don't like to write poetry, let's change their minds together! Using Carl Sandburg's "Theme in Yellow" as a mentor text, we'll analyze the poem and then use it to help students write their own poem. This poem is wonderful to analyze because of its rich imagery. To capitalize on that, we'll use images to enrich the experience.Although you can use this resource at any time, this poem is perfect for fall classroom discussion. If you're looking for something perfect for pumpkins and
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
Ballad of Birmingham and Birmingham Historical Article Cross-Genre Questions
The poem and article are about the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 in which four girls were killed. This activity includes a graphic organizer for the poem, separate author's craft/purpose questions for the poem and article, and cross-genre questions between the two. The questions require students to examine the strategies the authors use to convey their message. They are higher-level thinking rather than content-based questions.
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7th - 10th
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A Bird Came Down the Walk Emily Dickinson Read Poetry Aloud Oral Reading
Reading poetry out loud can be easy if you know the tips and tricks! This lesson uses Emily Dickinson's poem "A Bird Came Down the Walk" to teach oral reading of poetry. It's an often overlooked standard, but no more! Your students will use these skills for years to come.You'll get a fabulous "How to Read a Poem Aloud" tip sheet that you'll come back to again and again.Students will use this along with a planning sheet for "A Bird Came Down the Walk" to prepare to read the poem aloud.Students wi
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
ABOUT ME POETRY | TWO VOICE POEM Inside/Outside Character Traits |Back to School
In this no-prep, easy-to-use Inside and Outside Two Voice Poetry unit students will use poetry to deeply analyze and write about their inside vs. outside character and personality traits. Two templates are included for a student to write about themselves OR a character (fictional or historical) in a book, novel, or story they are reading. This engaging activity turns this abstract concept into an activity that is high-interest, easy to understand, and memorable!This Inside vs. Outside Poem Inclu
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: ABOUT ME ART & POETRY BUNDLE | Me Mask & Inside/Outside Poem | Halloween
Figurative Language Stations with Booklet
Students rotate through six interactive figurative language stations. There are directions included for each station. Students will scan a QR code, watch a short video describing that type of figurative language in more depth, write the definition, and complete a short activity in a booklet to reinforce learning. The booklet includes definitions and activities for the following types of figurative language:-Alliteration-Hyperbole-Imagery-Onomatopoeia -Personification-Simile and Metaphor
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3rd - 6th
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Poetry Fog by Carl Sandburg Figurative Language Zoomorphism Activity
Looking for a quick, powerful lesson on poetry? Do you love fun figurative language? This is the lesson for you! Poetry and figurative language come together in this lesson that teaches students about Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog" while also teaching an unusual figurative language device! This lesson in incredibly low in preparation (give them a copy & you're done), but incredibly high in power. Students will love learning something unusual. You'll love that the direct instruction is done for y
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
Holidays in My House | No Prep Poetry Project - Sensory Poem
This fun, no prep poetry project is an inclusive way to celebrate everyone by letting students share their own holidays and traditions. Students reflect on how a holiday at their house feels, smells, and looks. Then, they use those sensory details to write a poem about it.What's Included?Teacher directionsA graphic organizer to help students brainstorm and planA poem draft templateA completed example poemFour final copy page templates to create a beautiful poem - perfect for a bulletin board dis
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3rd - 5th
Symbolism | Comprehensive List of Literary Symbols and Their Meanings | Motifs
Use this extensive 8-page list of symbols and their meanings as reference pages with middle school and up--or simply for teacher reference only. Beware your students will quickly become experts at unpacking symbolism in movies, songs, and literature. I wanted something like this, so I created it. Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Build your writing toolbox. Make them feel brilliant!Scaffold the writing process.Citing Evidence Posters, Argument Essay Template, & Transitions BundleTh
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7th - 12th
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NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS TWO VOICE POETRY Past Future Self Character Traits
Help students reflect and set goals with this no-prep, easy-to-use Past & Future Two Voice Poetry Unit. In it, students will use poetry to deeply analyze and write about their past and future character and personality traits. Two templates are included for a student to write about themselves OR a character (fictional or historical) in a book, novel, or story they are reading. This would make a wonderful Back to School or New Year's Resolution activity that integrates SEL (Social-Emotional Le
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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PBL Baseball Pack | Project Based Printable/Digital
What better way to have students use real-life math, poetry and STEM connections with this fun, high-interest Project Based Learning Baseball Pack? Includes a DIGITAL version! In this unit, students will have the opportunity for STEM Challenges as they create a board game, pitching machine, and baseball tee and more! Students will learn how to write a persuasive paper to encourage others to pick their baseball stadium as the model to be built. Please see the PREVIEW above for an idea of everythi
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3rd - 5th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Project Based Learning Duo: Baseball and Arcade Pack
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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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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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