Poetry Books - During the school year I do a lot with poetry. After a poem is introduced and activities are done with the poem, a copy of the poem goes in each students pronged poetry folder. The poem is then ... related

Poetry Center - I teach third grade and have a Poetry Center. We have a poem a week and I laminate the poem (they are on sentence strips and used in my pocket chart). I give the students a copy each Monday morning of that weeks poem. They put it into their poetry spiral (notebook). Throughout the week, they do different things with their poem... related

Poetry Ideas - I found one of those magnetic poetry kits for kids where they take words printed on magnets and used a magnet board to experiment with the words. When they get something they like they write in in their poetry notebooks -- they can use the word processor to type it if they would rather. Then they illustrate. A great book to use with a poetry unit for mid elementary and up is... related

poetry is fun - Each child ended up with a poetry booklet - the pages were the size of half an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. The first page told what a haiku was (the "formula" if you will), the second page was their written haiku. Third page was... related

Poetry projects - Each spring I would do a unit on poetry. We would read lots of poems and write some of our own.After students have written a poem I would have them type it out on the computer. The students enjoyed using different fonts for each poem. Or they could write it out neatly. They would cut it out and mounted it on to a piece of artwork. The artwork was a... related

Weekly Poetry - On Mondays we spend the most time on the poem. Reading through it and decorating our page for our folder. Tues-Friday mornings we read through it once or twice during calendar. I often write them in 2 colors alternating each line. Then, I will say boys read the green lines and girls read the yellow- or people wearing jeans read the green lines etc. It just makes practicing more fun. Also, Friday afternoons performing them... related

A Simile and Metaphor Sample Lesson Plan - Difficult concepts to teach, this lesson provides you with all the tools you need including a ton of examples related

Aboriginal Thematic Unit - In intercurricular thematic unit about Native Americans. Lesson ideas, a cloze activity, poetry writing, a tepee pattern, a recipe, and worksheets are included related

Africa Resources: Folktales, Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction - Just like the title says, this is a reasource of books related to Africa related

Alliteration Lesson Plans and Resources - Lists tongue twisters that illustrate the concept of alliteration followed by several lessons for students to complete related

American Verse Project - Archive of mostly 19th century American poetry related

Animalia - This book connects very well to a unit on poetry and alliteration. Students can compose their own class book with a concept similar to that of the authors related

Apple Writing (PRIMARY) - Combine poetry, literature, and technology into one lesson. Has links to help you get the resources you need related

Casey at the Bat - A collection of unique activities for this poem. Includes writing activities that make the story personal to the student related