Poetry projects

Getting students engaged in a poetry unit can be a challenge. Here are some fun projects to incorporate in your classroom to help spark students’ creativity and boost their learning potential.

Blackout Poetry: Want a great poetry activity you can add to any unit? Ease students into writing their own poetry with stunning blackout poems. Check out the full post for step-by-step photos and a free assignment you can use immediately.

Here's a step-by-step lesson plan on how to teach blackout poetry. Your students will love it -- it's a great way to complete a poetry or creative writing unit. Students will use higher level thinking to create theme, imagery, and vivid word choice. #poetry #blackoutpoetry #lessonplan

Great Ideas And Tips For Teaching Poetry. Poetry reveals many aspects of life that they may not get to experience or witness first hand. Poetry may speak some ‘truth’ about how others live and that helps build empathy with our students. Read on for 6 ways you can set your students interest ablaze for poetry! Grades 4-12 | Middle School ELA | High School English

Teach poetry writing to kids in elementary schools with these four easy skills #poetry #literacy #teachingwriting #2ndgrade #3rdgrade

I admit, I have never been one to go all out for National Poetry Month in April. I enjoy reading poems with my class and poetry books definitely get their rotation in my monthly book display, but poetry projects or multi-day lessons never seem to fit in. First of all, April is peak testing season

I'm a huge advocate for integrating art and creativity into my lessons! Sadly, many of us are struggling to fit the creatives arts into our hectic schedules these days with the increase in budget cuts and axing of the arts from the curriculum. However, ar

Teach children how to write bio poems about themselves and create a unique writing display. Grab FREE poetry templates for kids to plan and write their own bio poems.

Teaching blackout poetry is an engaging way to help spruce up any poetry unit. Show some examples, and your students will be eager to create a blackout masterpiece of their own. Blackout poetry is a type of found poem that encourages students to create poetry from larger texts. This blog post includes ideas for middle school and high school English (ELA). Teaching blackout poetry is your classroom is a unique opportunity to get students thinking about popular poetic devices.

If there’s one genre that intimidates students, it is definitely poetry. Poetry, for some reason, can make students shrink with uncertainty, doubt, and fear before you even begin the unit. When I teach poetry in my classroom, I first like to introduce students to it by teaching them how to read and annotate poetry. By breaking this process down for students, it immediately becomes less intimidating. Once my students have a grasp on how to read poetry, I then throw them into the deep end with…