1 Introduction to Modernist Poetry Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This three-lesson unit begins with Lesson One: “Understanding the Context of Modernism Poetry.” Working in groups, students use videos, photographs, and various primary source documents to explore the individual’s response to the social, cultural, technological, and historical changes that prompted the modernist movement. Lesson Two: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” features “warm-up” exercises to... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, a descriptive passage from a piece of prose is used to create a found poem. Students may then use found poems for models in writing parallel poems.... 3 Playing Around with Poetry Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This resource provides a lesson plan for using poetry to discuss author's purpose, main idea, and use of figurative language. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to read and discuss a wide selection of poetry and to write original pieces.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on how the blues both operate as poetry and inform the poetry of many prominent African American poets. Students consider the poetic devices and recurring themes in blues lyrics and the significance of the poetry of the blues as part of the African American tradition.... 5 Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students' development in reading and writing is supported when they have an active interest their learning. This lesson supports students' exploration of language and writing skills as they read and discuss poetry.... 6 Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: Part of Scholastic's Writing with Writers series, this resource features lessons and activities for use in writing workshop. This poetry writing project is designed to teach students strategies for creating original poetry.... 7 Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: If you've ever drawn a heart for the word "love," you've written a rebus. Rebus, writing which substitutes images for words in the text, is a well-known technique used by authors to write books for young readers able to identify only a limited number of words, so why not use this same rebus technique to teach... 8 Writing Poetry Like Pros Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This resource provides a series of lessons designed to familiarize students with well-known classic and contemporary poets and the defining characteristics of poetry. Using poems written by classic and contemporary poets, students explore the elements of poetic writing as they read and analyze a variety of poems.... 9 Listening to Poetry : Sounds of the Sonnet Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson combines the teaching of formal terms used to describe sonnets with appreciating the sounds of poetry. Focusing on the sounds of poetry, this resource provides a series of sound exercises to illustrate the underlying form or structure in poetic language.... 10 Poetry Writing with Karla Kuskin Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Part of Scholastic's Writing with Writers series, this resource features lessons and activities for use in writing workshop. This poetry writing project is designed to teach students strategies for creating original poetry.... |