ISBN: 0-9780585-9-3. 100% Curriculum Based. Teach your students poetry by utilizing other students poems. All of the poems used in this unit were written by grade 5 students across Canada.

General Outcomes:
1. Explore Thoughts, Ideas, Feelings and Experiences
2. Comprehend and Respond Personally and Critically to Oral, Literary and Media Text
3. Manage Ideas and Information
4. Enhance The Clarity and Artistry of Communication
5. Celebrate and Build Community

Unit Outline:
Defining Poetry and Literary Terms
Developing Language Through Our Senses
Quatrain
Active Listening, Critiquing and Simile Poems
Descriptive Words and Definition Poems
Hyperbole
Responsible Responses, Acrostic and Alphabet Poems
Diamante
Haiku and Lune
Rhyming and Couplet Poems
Limericks
Bio Poems
I wish
Free verse
Cento
Canadian Poets
Unit Completion