Poetry

Use this Golden Shovel poetry lesson plan to teach structure, close reading, and word choice by building a new poem from a source line.

Use this Nature Walk Poems lesson plan to teach sensory imagery, observation, and precise word choice through an outdoor poetry activity.

Use this Two Voice Poems lesson plan to teach perspective, contrast, collaboration, and performance through a structured partner poetry activity.

Try this Mystery Bag poetry lesson plan to teach sensory language, inference, and descriptive writing through a hands-on guessing game.

Use this Reverse Poems lesson plan to teach structure, perspective, revision, and word choice through a challenging reversible poetry activity.

This Shadow Poems lesson plan uses silhouettes to inspire imagery, perspective, inference, and original poetry in a visual classroom activity.

Use this Tactile Poetry lesson plan to build sensory vocabulary and imagery through a hands-on classroom poetry activity using texture.

This Roll-a-Poem lesson plan turns poetic devices into a dice game that gets students writing with metaphor, simile, alliteration, and more.

Use this Color Poems lesson plan to teach imagery, mood, symbolism, and sensory language through an accessible creative writing activity.

Try this Emoji Emotion poetry lesson plan to teach tone, inference, imagery, and word choice by turning emoji sequences into original poems.