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- Figurative language: Metaphor
- This lesson is a part of a unit on poetry and figurative language. It is designed to teach students the characteristics of metaphor within the context of poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Nancy Meyers.
- An integrated poetry unit
- My students have always disliked poetry. The different ways in which this lesson approaches poetry and the connection it makes to their "March Madness" studies seems to make poetry more enjoyable, fun, and relevant for my students. In order to integrate with the sixth grade math and social studies teachers, I teach this unit during the ACC tournament to coincide with the "March Madness" unit that is covered in the math classes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Nancy Guthrie.
- Introducing simple machines: A machine walk
- This is an integrated lesson exploring simple machines. The poetry response part of this lesson serves to spark the students' interest as well as allow the teacher to identify students' prior knowledge of machine concepts and vocabulary. The machine walk gives a baseline assessment of students' understanding. The majority of students originally focus on complex machines; this will be evident by the types of machines they identify on their list.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Terri Fannin.
- Poetry through music: "Smooth"
- This lesson draws students into a study of poetry, using Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas' "Smooth" as an entry point.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Andrea Belletti.
- Positively poetry
- Students will be learning about and writing limericks. Since limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern and word count, the students will work in partners to create their own limericks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Maribeth Warren, Pam Purifoy, and Tracy Dagenhart.
- Singing the "Song of Life"
- This lesson requires students to use their reading, comprehension, and analysis skills to analyze a poem and respond creatively to the selection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- By Angela Taylor.
- Slipsliding poetry
- Students will work with a partner to write an original piece of poetry to express information learned about the rain forest and an animal that lives in that habitat. Students will share their poems by creating a multimedia slide show.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Angela Hodges.
