This poetry unit bundle is a perfect no prep package to teach your students about different forms of poetry and figurative language. Poem forms are matched with a type of figurative language into two page mini-lessons in which students analyze the poem's form, a type of figurative language, and then practice creating their own!

This bundle weaves teaching figurative language with poetry exactly the way I do it in my own class.

Google Docs version. Editable and customizable. Assign directly through Google Classroom. Perfect for distance learning OR printable for in-person students.

This bundle includes:

• Criteria for writing: rhyming couplets, limericks, haikus, cinquains, acrostic poems, diamantes, definition poems, and free verse poems
• Definitions and examples for: simile, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, and synecdoche
• Strong example poems for each form
• Higher-level vocabulary words in the example poems. Each worksheet also encourages students to use more vivid and precise vocabulary
• Checklists for students to ensure they've met the assignment criteria and/or to assist teacher's with grading
• Introductory notes on rhyme scheme, stanzas, forms, figurative language, and imagery
• Fun poetic license for students to encourage creativity
• Figurative language memory tiles for review game
• Culminating assignment in which students invent their own form of poetry!
• Retell a story as a poem activity
• Two different quiz options
• Research a famous poet and create a slideshow

Click through to each file in the bundle to see the thumbnail preview.