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Poetry Resources for Teachers

Celebrate National Poetry Month by filling your April lessons with lyrical activities. Explore poetry on a daily basis with our Daily Poetry Podcasts or subscribe to our  Poem of the Day Daily Feed and take your students to new writing levels. Try our poetry kit, provided by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which gives you plenty of ideas for celebrating National Poetry Month in April. You can also use our slideshows to find a wealth of popular activities to choose from. We have printables, lesson plans, activities, and references for you to use in your cross-curricular study of the art of poetry.
Slideshows
Poetry Lessons & Activities (Grades K-2)
Poetry Lessons & Activities (Grades 3-5)
Poetry Lessons & Activities (Grades 9-12)
Poetry Lessons & Activities (Grades 6-8)
Poetry Activities & Prompts: Printables Slideshow
Printables
Shape Poems
The Odyssey Teacher's Guide
Scoring Rubric: Poetry
Action Poems and Songs
The Iliad Teacher's Guide
Last Day Blues Student Poem for Teacher
Types of Poetry
More Popular Poetry Printables
Lesson Plans
Getting to Know Each Other Through Poetry
Billie Holiday's Song "Strange Fruit"
Metaphor Unit Poems
Fall Haiku
An Autobiographical Poem
The History & Poetry of "In Flanders Fields"
Fall Similes
More Poetry Lesson Plans
Art Activities
Chinese Calligraphy
Family Finger Plays
Hey There, Stink Bug! Activity Guide
Literature & Math: Stories about Planets
Our Flag Poetry Pack
Jaha and Jamil Went Down the Hill Activity
Music Activities
Patriotic Poems and Songs
Rufus and Friends: Rhyme Time Reader's Theater
Robert Burns Biography
Enter the Poetry Contest
"I'm Thankful for . . ."
References
Interview with Jose Garcia Villa
"Hunger" by Emily Dickinson
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Poetry
Memorial Poetry
Contemporary Irish Writers Live Up to Legend
William Butler Yeats
How Do I Love Thee?
Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
John Keats - Biography & Activities
Where Students Can Publish
Poetry Glossary
Poetry Terms Glossary
Geoffrey Chaucer Biography
Wilfred Owen Biography
Bollingen Prize in Poetry
Quotations from Winter Poems
Quizzes
Poetry Terms Quiz
Poets and Poems Quiz
Poetry Word Scramble
Alphabetizing Poets Quiz
Poets
Black Authors and Poets -- Mix and Match
Black Authors and Poets -- ABC Order
Langston Hughes, an Everyday Poet
Black Authors and Poets -- Mix and Match (Answer Key)
Letter from Poet Joyce Sidman
Black Authors and Poets -- ABC Order (Answer Key)
Poetry Worksheets
More Resources about Poets
Holiday Poetry Activities
"Twas the Night Before Christmas": Full Text
Irish Literature and Folklore Quiz
Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A Lovely Light
Acrostic Poem: Earth Day
Holiday Poems
Recycled Poetry
"In Flanders Fields"
More Poetry Activities for Holidays
Social Studies & Poetry Connected
Locomotion & Peace, Locomotion Discussion Guide
Creating Your Own Career Poem
A Wreath for Emmett Till Teacher's Guide
Inaugural Poetry
Alexander Pushkin Word Search
"The New Colossus" -- Dramatic Reading
Dynamite!
More Poetry Activities for Social Studies
History & Poetry Connected
The Odyssey
Robert Frost's Poems: Teacher's Guide
Women Abolitionists -- Poem and Speech
Old South Meeting House
An Author's Tribute to the Mercury 13 Women
A Thanksgiving Poem
Holocaust Cinquain
More Poetry Activities for History
Science & Poetry Connected
As Soon As It's Fall Poetry Pack
Sensory Poems
Fall into Rhyme
Fall Acrostic Poem
Animal Poems & Animal Shapes
It's Like This, Cat Bio-Poem
Literature & Math: Stories about Giants
More Poetry Activities for Science
Food & Poetry Connected
Science and Writing: Food Poetry
Poetry is Sporty
Favorite Foods
Language Arts & Poetry Connected
Bio Poem Handout
Teacher's Guide to Cam Jansen Mysteries
A Collection of Poetry Activities
Denotation/Connotation
Reciting-a-Poem Speech
Cowboy Slim Activity Guide
Counting Strong Words in Poetry
More Poetry Activities for Language Arts
More Literature Resources
Sample Metaphor Poems
Discover Nursery Rhymes
Analyze a Jose Garcia Villa Poem
Creating Mental Pictures with Metaphors
Poetry Jam! Sub Kit -- Grades 7-8
Harry Potter Haiku Handout
Emotion Similes
More Literature Resources for Teachers

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