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.

Visualizing is one of my very favorite skills to teach little readers. Why? It's a powerful skill that is used throughout life and really helps with reading and listening comprehension.

Reading poetry with your primary and intermediate students have never been so much fun! 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students all love this month long poem unit. Students will learn about how to read and comprehend a haiku, lymrick, rhyming, shape, ABC, acrostic, cinquain, autobiographical, ballad, ode, tanka, and more during this no prep unit. There are templates provided to write poems, as well as anchor charts, examples and models of poems and figurative language. Digital or in person…

Poetry Month is April! It will be here next week! I love teaching poetry to my first graders. Really, I love teaching Writing Workshop and all aspects of it. I think because I always loved Writing

Hello Everyone!! Happy April and Happy Poetry Month!! Poetry is one of the parts of our writing curriculum that I look forward to so much! We read, discuss, analyze, and even memorize poetry every week...poems that help to bring our curriculum to life. Kids love poetry. The tongue twisting words, the alliteration, the onomatopoeia, the fun language, the rhyme, the rhythm, and so much more. Teaching a social studies or science concept using fun poetry is the best! The kids keep all their…

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...

Teach addition, subtraction, sight words, phonics, grammar, handwriting and so much more with the May NO PREP Packet for First Grade!

Hello Everyone!! Happy April and Happy Poetry Month!! Poetry is one of the parts of our writing curriculum that I look forward to so much!...

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 […]

Elements of poetry anchor chart