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Poetry Resources for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Poetry: This bundle contains my resources for teaching poetry, which includes teaching p...
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Use popular boy band One Direction's songs "One Thing" and "What Makes You Beautiful" to teach and practice figurative language, sound devices, a...
Poetry Terms Presentation with Song Lyrics Examples: Song lyrics are one of the easiest ways to teach poetry terms/devices such as alliteration, ...
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POETRY PACKAGE - This comprehensive poetry package includes some of my BEST SELLING poetry items on TpT! Includes Figurative Language Worksheet a...
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Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which d...
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Poetry Terms Bookmarks: Remind students of the most common poetry terms with these handy bookmarks. Three pages with color and one black & w...
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Dissect a Poem - Complete Anatomy of a Poem Activity: This exercise breaks down the different types of poems, parts of a poem, figurative languag...
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An excellent introduction to the life and times of William Shakespeare. This can be shown before you read or act any of Shakespeare's plays. Dow...
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Poetry Resources Bundle: This CD contains all of my Poetry & figurative language lessons, activities, art prints, powerpoints, quizzes, and m...
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I had been wanting to teach myself how to make a multiple choice slideshow and poetry seemed like a good subject to practice with as it's going t...
Use Jessie J's popular song "Domino" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which devic...
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Complete unit for teaching "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. Aligned with the Common Core Text Exemplars in Poetry for Grades 6-8, but can be...
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Make your own magnetic poetry kit with this resource and a few basic supplies. You will need magnetic paper and a cookie sheet or metal sheet. ...
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This original motivational poem has one meaning when you read it forwards and another when you read it in reverse! It's great for any junior-high...
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This FREE mini-lesson reviews haiku poetry. It shows the format for writing haiku poems, as well as gives examples of original haiku poems. Stude...
I found this adorable poem online and had to share it! I cannot find the author of the poem. If you know who wrote it, please let me know so I ...
A quiz (or can be used as a worksheet) over various figurative language terms and poetic devices. Quiz includes 20 matching and identification o...
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This Poetry Styles Handout names and describes 13 different types of poetry. It is a great introduction to different poetic formats and can be us...
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This six-page supplement has all the poems from the movie "Dead Poets Society" and several quotes and explanations. It's a great resource for st...
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Poetry Activity Twitter-Style: Writing a Poetweet or Twaiku (Haiku using Twitter 140 Character Restrictions)
Harness the social-marketing site T...
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This file contains all the elements needed for a poetry unit in which students create their own poetry notebook:
- Very detailed teacher instruc...
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This poetry study asks students to identify personification, alliteration, metaphors and symbolism in Tupac Shakur's poem, "The Rose that Grew fr...
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE / POETRY TERMS POSTERS - A fun and functional set of posters to help students learn figurative language / poetry terms. Term...
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Get your students excited about Shakespeare with this slick Prezi introduction to the Bard’s sonnet structure and iambic pentameter. Every eye ...
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In this lesson, students collaborate to write team poems. Each team poem is created around an extended metaphor of their choice. Complete directi...
Newly Updated! Powerpoint presentation of poetry devices and figurative language in poetry.
Defines the terms & gives examples (an easy exam...
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Celebrate national Poem in your Pocket day by offering students and staff members poems they can carry with them all day.
This download has p...
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This 16-page student-ready novel packet for Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust allows students to focus on all the important concepts in the novel, se...
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This massive 330-page Literature Guide for Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is sure to have anything and everything you need to teach The Canterbur...
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Love those magnetic poetry kits but hate the prices on them? Make your own classroom sets. The students love to create poems, phrases, sentence...
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This freebie is two handouts: a Glossary of Poetic Terms, including definitions for such terms as alliteration, assonance, iambic pentameter, met...
A reversal poem is a cool free-verse poem that has a negative message when read top-to-bottom and a positive message when read in reverse, bottom...
Complete unit for teaching Langston Hughes's "I, Too, Sing America." Designed around the Common Core Text Exemplars in Poetry for Grades 6-8, bu...
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This Powerpoint presentation introduces onomatopoeia as a literary device, provides examples (with sound effects), and concludes with a brief sel...
Decorate your classroom or office with the words of Rudyard Kipling. These art prints feature his poem "If" in three different eye-pleasing layou...
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Poetry slam assignment, rubric and peer evaluations. This unit is designed for students to write their own poetry, recite it in front of the cla...
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So many students struggle when it comes to writing poetry. This 98-slide presentation (which includes 13 pages of printable handouts) will have t...
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Poetry Characteristics - Notes and Poetry Writing Activity. Poetry notes can be projected or printed as a handout. Several different characterist...
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This bundle includes 17 forms of poetry. Each type of poem has a poster/visual that can be printed or projected onto the smartboard. The color...
Mother's Day Poetry Project with Poetry Templates, Original Poem Examples for each type of Poem, Word Bank, & Rubric: Create Poetry for Moth...
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My students love this activity! I have taken lines from popular song lyrics and created a poetic devices review activity. The devices (allitera...
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This Secondary Solutions Literature Guide for Beowulf contains 164 pages of student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher resources aligned wit...
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A fun and educational set of 16 Thanksgiving themed bookmarks. Students practice writing examples of similes, metaphors, personification, alliter...
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I created this handy reference sheet of Author's Craft terms and examples. Not only do I access it daily, but I give it to students to use as a r...
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A FREE Christmas gift to you!
"Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a Christmas poem much loved by young and old. Longfellow, arg...
Poetry Terms Poster / Figures of Speech - Students create a poster or mind map based on their definition of poetry, poetry they enjoy and figures...
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Review poetry with your students by playing this Poetry game using PowerPoint! It reviews literary terms such as simile, alliteration, personifi...
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Complete unit for teaching "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. Aligned with the Common Core Text Exemplars in Poetry for Grades 6-8. A total of 24 pa...
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Poetry Graphic Organizer. This graphic organizer helps students understand the difference between sensory language and figurative language when u...
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