Poetry high school

Creating high school poetry lessons that are engaging help our young people develop critical thinking skills! Seven ways to help. Can you think of any ways that I have missed?

Check out these exciting TED Talks about poetry and choose your favorites to share with your high school students.

Try these fun poetry activities for high school students and engage even the most reluctant learners in creative thinking and poetry writing!

Fun poetry activities for middle and high school

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

Poetry can be a challenge for teachers and students alike. These three poetry creation lessons help to break down the fear with analyzing poetry. With small risk taking with poems, students learn to take bigger risks with poetry analysis. Here are poetry activities to get you started with adding more poetry into your high school English classes. These work for grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, or grade 12 ELA classes. Read the post today and start with more poetry tomorrow!

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

Elevate your middle school English class with our latest poetry blog post! Uncover the power of poetry with the 5 best poems specially curated for your students. These poems are ideal for middle school kids to read and analyze. Ignite their love for literature and inspire creativity. Dive into the world of words now!

Have your students ever described poetry as boring or confusing? It is common for them to feel overwhelmed by poetry because it is so different from other styles of writing. In order for students to move past this attitude, they need to feel confident in their ability to read and write poetry. In this blog post, you will learn how you can instill the love of poetry in high school students. I will also share some of my students' favorite activities for teaching poetry in high school.

Analyzing poetry is a skill all our students need to develop. While students are required to investigate poems often, poetry analysis is still something that many students struggle with. That's why I'm a big fan of practice! I love to give students lots of opportunities to closely read and analyze poetry. (And I've put together a FREE one-pager that students can use with any poem!)