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High school The New Year poetry scaffolded notes
High School Poetry Unit | 4 Weeks | Poetry Bundle | Analyzing & Writing Poems
This resource is a FULL POETRY UNIT for High School English, Grades 9-12!You will get a collection of various lessons, activities, and projects, plus an awesome digital escape room, and final test! I've also included a schedule for teachers to follow day-by-day! This bundle is so diverse and your students will read at least 18 different poems within this unit!Included in this high school poetry unit bundle:Introduction Poetry Lesson & Guided NotesThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Poem Close Readi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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POETRY BUNDLE: 54 Classic Poems w/Annotation Organizer & Quick Picture Strategy
Poetry Classics in a Handy Bundle ⚡
➡All our poems are Digital Ready. Students can highlight/annotate the text on a computer.
✅A 2nd organizer for teaching close/active reading/annotation is included.
The Annotation Organizer and the Quick Picture Strategy combine to help students improve critical thinking analysis while reading, enjoying, and interpreting poetry.
The Side-by-Side Annotation Organizer is designed to improve annotation skills and cultivate literary appreciation.
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6th - 11th
"I am From" Poem Packet: Back-to-School!
The "I am From" poem (or autobiographical/introduction poem) is not an entirely new concept, but this file contains the step-by-step process that scaffolds the writing process for even the most "resistant" poets in your class.
The packet contains a two-sided pre-writing worksheet, a rough draft template, directions for formatting the final draft, and a detailed grading rubric. The writing process could take anywhere from 2-5 days in class, depending on the age of the learners and the time desig
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Comparing Poetry for Gifted & Talented Students with Any Poems - Guided Practice
Use this PowerPoint and modelling worksheets with any poems!Aimed at middle and high school gifted and talented students, this is a full lesson guide for comparing several areas of poetry for two or more poems chosen by the teacher. This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.The slideshow includes built-in discussion prompts and a quick 'language of comparison' starter task to draw students in. The sheets can be used as a cloze activity with st
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented ELA BUNDLE | Ambitious Reading, Writing and Analysis
Introduction to Shakespeare Escape Room + Shakespeare's Language Sonnet Activity
Shakespeare is hard. Reading Shakespeare is challenging. Teaching Shakespeare can be difficult. But getting Shakespeare? Really getting it? That’s such a powerful reward. You and your students feel like you’ve summited Everest on that day. Everything else? Mere foothills. We all do the obligatory introduction to Shakespeare. Hands up if you’ve got that Introduction to Shakespeare PPT/Google Slides deck in a folder on your computer. ✋ We’ve got a few. Each one, we thought, more engaging than the
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8th - 12th
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"If" Poem Figurative Language Task Cards -Differentiated Tiered Activity
These task cards are used with the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. They explore the figurative language in the poem. I use these in a station/ center with my students.
Included: pages with the questions on the task cards - differentiated on three learning levels:
Tier 1: contains scaffolding in vocabulary, writing, and academic level.
Tier 2: less scaffolding.
Tier 3: contains no scaffolding.
You have many options with these pages:
• I give all groups the task cards. I give my tier 1 stud
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5th - 9th
Introducing Historical and Biographical Literary Criticism (PDF & Google Ready)
Literary criticism is not part of every high school English curriculum, so it can be hard to find high-quality resources for introducing these complicated concepts to students. For this reason, I started making my own resources. That’s how this set was born: a think sheet I use to introduce the concept of literary criticism, a notes page to guide students through the basics of historical and biographical criticism, and an application of these lenses to poem. The poem students use to practice app
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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TPCASTT Notes & Graphic Organizer
TPCASTT poetry analysis graphic organizer. 3 pages -- 1) TPCASTT explanation & prompting questions, 2-3) differentiated blank graphic organizers for student use. Easy to use for any poem during a poetry unit!
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6th - 12th
Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt Activity with Popular Lyrics
This scavenger hunt is a great supplemental activity for introducing figurative language terms to students. Using popular song lyrics, each station provides a relatable and student friendly way for students to engage with and better understand figurative language terms. Figurative language covered: SimileMetaphorPersonificationHyperboleAlliterationOnomatopoeiaRepetitionRhymeAllusionSymbolism
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Comparing Poetry: Tupac and Langston Hughes
Show your students that poetry is all around us by comparing Tupac's Dear Mama lyrics to Langston Hughes Mother to Son poem. This lesson can be taught in a variety of ways to meet all learners. This lesson includes a slide show to present both the authors and the poems, with links to both the song and the poem read aloud. Also included is a one page sheet with both poems side-by-side, with guided annotations. This allows students to annotate their poem, highlighting the use of figurative languag
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7th - 10th
Poetry Introduction Guided Notes Lesson with Skill Practice Editable PPT
Introduce students to the wonderful world of poetry with this easy to implement, fully editable and customizable, PowerPoint for poetry introduction and guided notes lesson! Each element has an example for students to see and analyze. The guided notes graphic organizer allows for student made examples so that students can practice their newly acquired knowledge!This lesson includes and covers the following:AlliterationAllusion (Biblical, Historical and Literary)Author's Purpose (Persuade, Info
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7th - 10th
Comparing Tupac Lyrics and Langston Hughes: Teacher Guides Venn Diagram
This guide walks you through how to question your students while comparing Tupac's lyrics for "Dear Momma” and Langston Hughes' Mother to Son. Both texts work well to analyze purpose, message, and mood/tone. Students enjoy the comparison, especially older ones who know who Tupac was. This resource can be used as a guide to preplanned questioning, a guided/scaffolded notes activity, or independent assignment.
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6th - 12th
Middle School Poetry "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser: Teacher Guide
This powerful poem is an amazing resource to cover a variety of elements. In the teacher notes you'll receive questions to facilitate your class discussions, answers, and prompts for student annotating. These teacher notes also make a great scaffold for various learners. The notes discuss the use figurative language, message, tone POV,, mood, and setting.
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5th - 12th
The Pardoner's Tale Reading Guide
This reading guide is designed for students who may otherwise struggle with literature from this time period. It includes a graphic organizer to aid in differentiating the types of irony within the selection. It also includes sequential reading questions about the events of the tale as well as literary devices, such as foreshadowing and metaphor.
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11th - 12th
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Longfellow Complete Epic Poem Unit
This low-prep, high-engagement unit explores Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s acclaimed epic poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie.
Classic literature is an integral part of our heritage, and a powerful way for students to experience the universality of human emotions and life challenges. Often, however, students get caught up in the old-fashioned wording or poetic style, and miss the significance of the text and the story. This poetry study unit will break Longfellow's beautiful epic poem into access
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9th - 12th
A Julia de Burgos, AP Spanish Literature, a comic strip comparing the Two Julias
This comic strip version of A Julia de Burgos, created by one of my talented students (she will receive half of the proceeds), is a great introduction to the two Julias in this poem. Additionally, this pre-reading activity front-loads the students with some important lines and quotes from the poem, giving the student a good understanding of the two sides of Julia Burgos personas, the public and the private side.The one page full color comic strip comes with 6 pictures, and displays Julias privat
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11th - 12th
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Poetry Minilesson | Distance Learning Poetry Notes
Don't let poetry intimidate your students! This editable minilesson is the perfect printable or digital resource to introduce poetry form and structure! With guided notes and practice passages, students will be able to distinguish traditional and free-verse poetry while analyzing the structure, rhythm, rhyme, and style techniques of several texts!In color-coded organizers, poetry terms like stanzas, lines, and speaker are defined and compared to those of prose. When students understand the diffe
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6th - 9th
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Poetry Bundle - Oodgeroo Noonuccal
This resource is designed for NSW Year 12 Standard English Module B: Close Study of Literature, however it can still be used for other studies of Noonuccal’s poetry if outside of NSW, Australia. Poems include: · The Past· China…Woman· Reed Flute Cave · Entombed Warriors · Visit to Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall· Sunrise on Huampu River· A Lake Within a Lake This bundle includes:· PowerPoint presentation for each poem with responding activities for students · Poetry Bingo (can be used for independen
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10th - 12th
"Half-Hanged Mary" Poetry Analysis (Supplemental The Crucible Activity)
One of my favorite lessons! First, I review the background presentation (hyperlinked near the title of the document). Next, I play the audio reading (YouTube link hyperlinked near the title of the document) one section at a time. After each section, I give the students two minutes (or so) to annotate that section on their handouts and write down any additional thoughts, elements of poetic style (effect and function), and/or comparisons to The Crucible/the Salem Witch Trials. We continue with thi
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9th - 12th
Poetry Analysis Doodle Notes
Make poetic analysis more engaging! The “Poetry Analysis Doodle Notes” works wonderfully with any poem. By using this "sketch notes" graphic organizer, students will examine the following: imagery, point of view (speaker), language (diction and figurative language), literal level (basic reading), interpretive level (deep reading), and notables (poetic foot, meter, line breaks, rhyme scheme, form, structure, etc.). Your students will analyze while having fun and being creative!
About Wondering w
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5th - 9th
Introduction to Poetry Analysis - student notes and guided practice
Poetry analysis can be daunting for any student (and teacher), so ease the fear with this Introduction to Poetry Power Point. Great to use to start off a poetry unit or introducing the Poetry Analysis Essay to AP Literature students. Covers basic poetry terms and definitions, and guides students in practicing using the terms. After this PPT, students will be ready for the Types of Poetry PPT, in which they will learn different forms of poetry, read an example poem of each type, and analyze each
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Literary analysis of style - Virgil's Aeneid III, lines 209-277 & 588-691
Detailed literary analysis for lines 209-277 & 588-691 from Book III of Virgil's Aeneid, the verse set text for Cambridge IGCSE Latin qualification for 2023-2025.The PowerPoint contains the Latin lines with annotations, colour-coded by style point (e.g. one colour for chiasmus, one colour for tricolon etc.). Animated underlining and appearing of comments makes the annotations clear.The slides and annotations are designed to be presented and discussed in class, and for students to be able to
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9th - 12th
Paradise Lost Book One Reading Guide
This graphic organizer guides students who would otherwise have great difficulty explicating the epic. It covers an excerpt of Book One from The Argument through line 270. It provides guidance for the background of the story and for comprehension of the literary allusions within the poem.
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11th - 12th
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Poe's "Annabel Lee" Reading Guide
Explore the depths of Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem "Annabel Lee" with this reading guide. This 2-page reading guide focuses on interpretation, analysis, comprehension, and creative response.
This reading guide also focuses on vocabulary, context, and the poetic devices that make the poem so rich in meaning.
Use this reading guide in your classroom to increase student appreciation of Poe's work.
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9th - 11th
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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.
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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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