250 results
8th grade 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
Subjects:
Grades:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 12th
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
Subjects:
Grades:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th
Types:
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
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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.
Click below to see each individual product description:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:
• Please go to your My Purcha
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
CCSS:
Also included in: AP English Literature Full Year BUNDLE!
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
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
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
Subjects:
Grades:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
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
Grades:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
THE HIGHWAYMAN Scavenger Hunt
Overview:
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
*** I
Subjects:
Grades:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th
CCSS:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Carl Sandburg: Author Study and Poetry Analysis Unit
Carl Sandburg is said to have written in the language of the people, making him one of the easier poets to teach to upper elementary and middle school students. This unit of study is to help you teach about one of America's best known authors by providing select poems, analysis forms and a guided discussion outline for one of Sandburg's longer poems. These poems fit with any poetry curriculum that you may use.
You will find 5 poems written by Sandburg in this unit. Each poem includes its o
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Famous Poets Analysis Bundle: Frost, Dickinson, Sandburg, & Stevenson
Middle School Poetry Unit aligned to Common Core
This is an entire Poetry Unit for Middle School students and NO PREP for teachers. Complete with worksheets, leaning targets, quizzes, CFA, Study Guides, Project and Rubric and a Poetry Jeopardy Review Game. This is at least 4 years of work I've been doing to my poetry unit. There are so many great things in this unit that are aligned to Common Core! I have recently updated this unit to include 2 worksheets on analyzing lyrics for figurative langue. There are over 60 pages of materials in this u
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 9th
Unit on Social Justice Poetry
With this lesson, students will understand what is meant by identity and how poetry can be used as social commentary. They will build on their poetic vocabulary in order to recognize how poetic devices can be used to enhance meaning. They will demonstrate that knowledge through the following:•daily writings•quizzes•class discussion•group activities•final essay or presentationThe package includes answer keys and a rubric for grading the final essay.Click on this link to view and download free pro
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: 3 Poetry Lessons Bundle
Writing about Heroes for Memorial Day or September 11th
Included In this packet is the poem The Heroes We Never Name with questions to get students thinking about what it means to be a hero.
Also included is a writing activity to get students thinking about who their hero is.
First, they will make a web of traits of what it means to be a hero and then make a list of their possible heroes. Then, they will choose one hero to write about. There is a prewriting graphic organizer for students to plan their writing and then paper to write on. The
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 8th
Billy Collins 9/11 Poetry Explication Worksheet “The Names”
This is a multiple page worksheet to accompany lessons on 9/11, specifically Billy Collins 9/11 poem “The Names.” I usually pull this lesson out the first week of school for 9/11 remembrance as well as a jump start to poetry explication expectations.
Included with this packet:
• The text of “The Names” with close reading questions that require students cite actual textual evidence for most of the answers they give. The questions are designed to focus readers on finding their answers in the t
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
Poetry Packet ANSWER KEY - accompanies a FREEBIE!
I'm providing the Answer Key for my free download - the Poetry Packet! This is a great poetry packet for Middle School (or some High School) students, covering figurative language, poetic devices, and poetic forms, including haikus, odes, and hip hop poetry!
Grades:
7th - 9th
Poetry Bell Ringers Bundle
Help students analyze poetry with all of my poetry bell-ringer resources. Each handout requires students to provide theme topics, theme statements, and text support for their responses. It includes 32 classic poems and graphic organizers that are "print and go." Depending on how you choose to use these, each set of bell ringers could last one week or several months Furthermore, a blank graphic organizer allows students to choose their own poems to analyze.This bundle includes 140 pages. Becaus
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 11th
Showing 1-24 of 250 results
Find Poetry resources | TPT
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.
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands