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Free poetry activities
FREE Diamante Poetry Writing Activities - Poetry Month Lesson
This is a 8-page poetry writing freebie to help you teach Diamante Poetry with your students in 1st-3rd grade. This set also includes the 7-line variation and a non-traditional 5 line variation of the diamante poem for younger students. The pages included in the freebie are:1 brainstorming sheet2 creation pages5 templatesThe complete Poetry Writing Unit includes everything you will need to teach 13 types of poetry:Shape poetry5 Senses poetryAcrostic poetryColor poetryAlphabet poetryCinquain poet
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1st - 5th
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Similes and Metaphors Color by Number FREEBIE
This color-by-number printable is a sample from my COLOR BY CODE: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE resource. If you are looking to give your students more practice with personification & hyperbole, check it out :)This Freebie Includes:A skills practice sheet focusing on similes verses metaphorsColoring sheet connecting to the answers from the skills sheetNO PREP"I Can" Statement included on every pageAnswer Keys Included*************************************************************************************
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4th - 6th
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Mother's Day Craft and Poem FREE
Enjoy this free Mother's Day craft activity!Students watercolor paint their hand-drawn flowers, and then use the template provided to write a poem all about their mom, grandma, or aunt! UPDATE: Flower templates are now included!Clear instructions are included to make this project as simple as possible! Let's honor mom with a project created especially for her this Mother's Day!
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K - 5th
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Free Readers' Theater - Free Poetry: I Gave Myself a Haircut & Other Silly Poems
Free readers' theater poetry: "I Gave Myself a Haircut (& Other Silly Poems)"* * * * * * * * * * * * * *If you enjoy this free poetry readers' theater compilation, I encourage you to check out the full, 10-poem set—THE SILLY POEMS COLLECTION—which also includes vocabulary pages.* * * * * * * * * * * * * *For years, elementary students have enjoyed the gloriously goofy poetry of Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, and others. Following in that tradition, "I Gave Myself a Haircut (& Other Si
Free: Poetry Ice Cream Alliteration Activities
Perfect to add to your April poetry month activities, or End of the Year into summer activities! After reading the poem Bleezer's Ice Cream choose from 5 different fun activities for students to practice recognizing and creating alliteration patterns. -Students can read the poem individually, in pairs, or groups, or project for shared reading -highlight, or identify where the author has used alliteration -sort some of the crazy flavors based on whether or not the author used alliteration to desc
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2nd - 5th
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End of the Year Farewell Poem ABC Ya Great For a Memory Book Page
This is something you can read to your students on the last day of school, or tuck into a summer packet that you're making to send home, or fill up a bit of extra time by having students color the black and white template, then tuck into their Memory Books.I found a similar poem online being quoted in a variety of places, all with an unknown author. I revamped it and changed the verses for 19 letters (H through Z) then tweaked it so teachers can use it for preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade.I
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PreK - 1st
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Free Readers Theater: Mother Goose Interrupted: This Little Piggy: Grade 3 4 5 6
Readers' Theater script for free: "Mother Goose Interrupted: This Little Piggy"Readers' theater (also spelled "reader's theatre") is a terrific teaching tool for developing students' reading fluency, and students will enjoy this fast and funny readers' theater script that puts a new spin on Mother Goose's "This Little Piggy." In "Mother Goose Interrupted: This Little Piggy," Mother Goose is continually interrupted by five talking toes, each with its own, distinct personality.The readers' theater
End-of-Year Free Summer Readers Theater Poetry: Summertime Poem Grade 3, 4, 5, 6
Free summertime poem & readers' theater poetry script: "The First Day of Summer Vacation": The poem is presented in two formats—as a standard poem and as a readers' theater script. The natural rhythm of poetry supports students' development into fluent readers, and combined with readers' theater, that makes this free poem a perfect fluency-builder for 3rd-grade, 4th-grade, 5th-grade & 6th-grade students.* * * * *This fast and funny readers' theater poem is excerpted from SCHOOL'S ALMOST
End of the Year Activity: Freebie
Download this end of the year activity for an easy craftivity for your students to complete the last weeks or days of school. Students will write and create an acrostic poem about summer and color and create this bright craftivity for a keepsake or use to decorate halls and walls.
If you like this craftivity, try my ★Wrapping It Up: End of the Year Activities Bundle.. It contains 6 more fun and unique crafts and activities for your students to create for the end of the year.
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1st - 4th
Reading Poetry Elements Unit | Writing Poems | Figurative Language Anchor Charts
Teaching students to read poetry elements and figurative language has never been easier. Students will practice both reading and writing poems through the use of these helpful anchor charts, posters and templates. This free poetry reading and writing sample covers teaching ABC poems.This is a free sample of the FULL one month unit which covers ALL of your poetry teaching needs. There is also a digital version, which includes 44 INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS and a digital template for students.Poetry Elem
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1st - 3rd
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Types of Poetry Writing -Types of Poems - Alliteration Craft Activity
Engage your students in poetry writing activities with this fun and engaging poetry. Your students will experience 2 different types of poetry or forms of poetry and use the examples to write their own poems based on formula poem templates.Love and explore poetry:Students will love to create a poem for a very special person when writing "Hold on". They will also have fun creating a list poem and being creative as they follow Jack Prelutsky's poetry technique! These poems can be completed at any
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Poetry Writing Unit Bundle - Figurative Language and Poetry Elements
I Am ... A Back To School Poem
Get your students writing and thinking on their first day of school. This file contains a visually appealing "I Am" poem template for students to fill in about their first day of school. There is one template for each of the grades from Kindergarten to grade 8.Students can color the template when they have finished writing to make a welcoming Back To School bulletin board.
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Music as Poetry Analysis Activity for Any Song - Digital and Print
Teaching students to analyze poetry can be challenging. This free resource uses pop culture music (almost any song of your choosing will work) to engage students in discussion about lyric poems. Song analysis activities make teaching poetry fun!ContentsThis song analysis activity is included in different versions:1. A condensed two-page graphic organizer 2. A 14 page resource with one question on each page so you can use them individually, with learning stations, or with gallery walksFormatsThi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Poetry Frames & Templates
These poetry templates & frames are perfect for teaching your students how to write poetry. Each poetry frame and template provides explicit, step-by-step directions for writing each type of poem.
Poetry frames & templates for Cinquain, Haiku, Diamante, Acrostic, Concrete, Limerick & Tank are included in this FREE pack.
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2nd - 4th
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FREE- A Christmas Poem (Find the Idioms)
This FREEBIE includes a humorous Christmas poem (in both color and black/white) that contains idioms. Students can find the idioms and identify them on the provided chart (also in both color and black/white). An answer key is provided for your convenience.
Please view the thumbnails to see some sample pages. Enjoy!
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3rd - 6th
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Fun Spring Writing Paper Freebie
Here's a spring writing freebie for you! It contains five pages, two for a spring acrostic poem and three for a creative writing. Get your kiddos excited about spring with some fun writing paper!
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K - 3rd
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MONDAY FREEBIE! Simile Worksheet & KEY for Middle Grades
MONDAY FREEBIE! Simile Worksheet & KEY for Middle GradesJust in time for National Poetry Month! Download this free Similes: Analyze & Complete worksheet.This worksheet is part of myFigurative Language is Reading Candy Worksheet Packet and my Figurative Language is Reading Candy Complete Unit for Middle Grades.Click Follow Me for more freebies! :)
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4th - 9th
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New Year's Resolution 2024 FREEBIE - New Year Poem and Goal Setting Sheet
This New Years 2024 FREEBIE includes a silly New Years Poem and a simple goal setting sheet for young learners to make New Years Resolutions. I plan to copy these pages front and back, that way we can read the poem together and then they can work on making some goals for 2024.
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1st - 4th
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Figurative Language Scoot Task Cards FREEBIE Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration
Learning made easy and fun with these 16 Figurative Language Scoot Task Cards. Your students will have fun identifying the following types of Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, and Alliteration. Great for test prep! These cards could be used for whole group, small group, review for a test, in literacy stations, Daily 5, or for a quick activity for a substitute teacher or parent volunteer. This is perfect for test prep and review! GET THE FULL VERSION HERE! Full Version Figurati
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Color Shape Poetry Writing Activity Templates - Poetry Month
This FREE color shape poetry writing template mini-pack provides teachers with the planning and creating templates to have your students write color and shape poetry. Teachers can print and provide a template to plan their poems and write their ruff drafts or good copies of their shape and color poems. This 4 page printable poetry writing pack has a planning and creating sheet for both shape and color poetryCheck out my blog post about how I teach color and shape poetry together to my primary cl
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1st - 3rd
FREE First Grade Kindergarten Poetry Unit - Monthly Poems Writing Center March
We love to read and write poems every single month in pre-k, kindergarten and first grade. Poetry is the perfect way to incorporate phonemic awareness, reading, writing, figurative language, drawing, ordering words in a sentence, rhyming and so much more! I create a monthly poetry folder for my students, This FREE March poetry unit is a preview from Complete K-1 Poetry Unit You'll have adorable poems and activities for every month of the year!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I absolutely LOVED the monthly poems! My stu
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PreK - 2nd
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Winter Friend Snowman Poem of the Week Activities - Shared Reading
Teach poetry to your students with the snowman My Winter Friend poem and activities. Start by reading the poem with your students, and have them complete the activities each day to go along with the poem so they are working on various skills and building fluency. Great for whole group lessons, morning work, and more!In this resource, you getcopy of the poemwriting paper to copy the poem at a poetry centersentence strips of the poem to cut & paste onto a separate sheetfill in the blanksfill i
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K - 2nd
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Memorial Day FREE Unit: Arlington
Memorial Day FREE Unit
Arlington: A Memorial Day Unit for Grades 4-8 ~ Freebie!
I created this freebie unit both as a thank-you to my wonderful followers and as a tribute to the soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. I hope that you will share these activities with your students so that they may appreciate this sacrifice as well.
In this unit, students will analyze song lyrics from "Arlington" by Trace Adkins. Then, they'll watch a documentary on Arlington National Cemetery while compl
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4th - 9th
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Exploring Point of View Through Poetry: "One Inch Tall" by Shel Silverstein
Student read and discuss the poem "One Inch Tall" by Shel Silverstein, noting the rhyme scheme, paraphrasing each stanza, and analyzing the speaker, their perspective, and ideas conveyed.
Then, students will write an original poem from the perspective of someone who is 15 Ft tall. they will use the planning sheets, the structure of Silverstein's poem, and a teacher model to create an original poem.
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-"One Inch Tall" by Shel Silverstein
-Poem Planning Sheet
-Poem Shell
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4th - 7th
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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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