Fun poetry activities

I love teaching poetry and can't wait to share these fun ideas with you! This post is full of ways you can make poetry fun in your middle school classroom.

I've put together 30 poetry activities for reading poetry, writing poems, and incorporating poetry into your other subjects and lesson plans.

Teaching poetry in upper elementary can be FUN... I promise! Over the years I've honed my poetry unit and my students love it! Take a peek at the best poetry resources for upper elementary including anchor charts, poems, lesson plans, and cross-curricular activities.

Fun poetry activities for middle and high school

Make kids laugh and learn to love poetry at the same time with Poetry Mad Libs, a hilarious literacy activity.

Looking for a fun way to introduce poetry writing to kids? Teach them how to write a found poem! Perfect for reluctant writers. #teachingwriting #poetry #elemed

Teaching poetry? Avoid the groans from your students by making the process a little more fun for them. Room 213 has strategies and free activities that you can use to get your students interested in (and less afraid of) poetry. #poetrylessons #middleschoolela #highschoolenglish #teachingpoetry #figurativelanguage

Sensory Poetry is all about getting your reader to feel as if they are in the place you are describing by using SENSORY LANGUAGE. These are fun and engaging activities for your students! You can almost smell, see, hear, taste and feel the poem.Great for first grade, second graders, kinders, year 1, 2. Makes quick work of literacy stations, sub plans and morning work. #firstgrade #teachingresources

I like to spend a couple weeks each year teaching my students about poetry. We do a number of fun activities in addition to reading and wr...

Celebrate Poetry Month with these fun and exciting poetry activity ideas for middle school students. Click through to read this blog post, where you will find some poetry teaching tricks, exciting and engaging poems for your middle school students, and suggestions on how to make poetry exciting in your middle school classroom. #middleschoolpoetry

Teaching poetry is so much fun and so easy to do when you have the necessary tools! I remember my first year teaching fourth grade, our writing curriculum had nothing for teaching poetry. Luckily, I have always loved to write, especially poems, so I developed my own Poetry Unit. It was incredible to see even […]

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

Read poetry and write about it! This post is full of nine ways to make analyzing and responding to poems engaging for middle and high school students. #PoetryLessons #MiddleSchoolPoetry #HighSchoolPoetry

Unleash creativity in your classroom with these fun and creative activities to teach poetry elements in elementary! From rhyming couplets to sensory poetry, engage your students with interactive and hands-on poetry elements activities. Find fun poetry activities or kindergarten and poetry games, too! Explore the blog post for poetry teaching ideas that make teaching poetry to kids enjoyable for first grade, kindergarten, and second grade.

Looking for fun poetry activities? Don't just teach poetry! Cover the standards with creative poetry lessons that hone in on specific grade-level skills.

I like to spend a couple weeks each year teaching my students about poetry. We do a number of fun activities in addition to reading and writing different poems. We have a poetry battle, rank poetry, make a poetry journal, and much more! Here is a look into my poetry unit.... To kick off my poetry unit I have my students each complete this KWL Chart about Poetry. We then discuss what poetry is, what a poet's purpose is, what poems can have, etc. I use and display these posters during my unit…

I like to spend a couple weeks each year teaching my students about poetry. We do a number of fun activities in addition to reading and wr...

Sneak in a little learning about alliterations this summer with this fun ice cream cone activity! Combining art and poetry makes learning fun for kids.

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.

Try these fun poetry writing worksheets. Students will create book spine poems, a fun activity for middle school and high school English language arts! | Lindsay Ann Learning English Teacher Blog