6th Grade Poetry

Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series One

This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…

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Poetry

Literary Biographies

Suffrage and Women's Rights

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Well Versed: A Guide to Teaching Poetry

Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers tried and true techniques for bringing poetry into the lives of…

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Reading and Literature

Literature

Poetry

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Prose and Poetry Connection

Teach your students how to write a narrative poem based on a prose realistic fiction selection using this detailed…

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Creative Writing

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If I Were in Charge of the World

In this computer activity, students read and discuss a poem, imagining what the world would be like if they were in…

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Reading and Literature

Literature

Poetry

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Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.

Harry Potter Haiku

Subjects

Reading Comprehension

Literature

Teaching Harry Potter

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Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series Two

This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…

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Poetry

Creative Writing

Suffrage and Women's Rights

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Students write a Fall poem and explore rhyming patterns.

Fall into Rhyme

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Creative Writing

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Students write fall-themed haikus, then decorate paper with beautiful autumn scenes on which to write their poetry. …

Fall Haiku

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Creative Writing

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ACTIVITIES

Black History Month Profile: Young Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman

This themed packet of reading and writing activities focuses on America's youngest Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. It…

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Poetry

Reading and Literature

African Americans

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Love That Dog & Hate That Cat Teacher's Guide

Integrate Sharon Creech's Love That Dog and Hate That Cat into your poetry unit with this teacher's guide. This packet…

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Language Arts and Writing

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Messing Around on the Monkey Bars Teacher's Guide

Author Betsy Franco suggests ways to use Messing Around on the Monkey Bars and Other School Poems for Two Voices in your…

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Language Arts and Writing

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"The Man from Snowy River" Adaptation

"The Man from Snowy River" is a poem that was adapted into a film and a TV show. In this activity, students will choose…

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Storytelling

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Students will learn about weathergrams in this poetry activity. They will then write their own weathergram.

Writing Weathergrams

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Creative Writing

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BOOK GUIDES

Caminar Educator's Guide

Caminar, a novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, is the moving story of a boy who loses…

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Poetry

Guatemala

Reading Instruction

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A Poem Written on a Bridge

Students read the poem in this printable titled "Composed on Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth, and then answer…

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Language Arts and Writing

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In this word processing activity, students learn about cinquains and write their own cinquain. Then they illustrate…

Cinquain Mosaics

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Visual Arts

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Students will write an acrostic poem from the name of a winter holiday: "Christmas," "Kwanzaa," or "Hanukkah." This is…

Holiday Poems

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Creative Writing

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Students make lists of the don'ts they have heard in their lives, and they make them into a poem!

Don'ts List Poem

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Reading and Literature

Poetry

Language Arts and Writing

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John Keats - Biography & Activities

Study the life and work of John Keats, one of the greatest 19th-century English poets. This resource includes…

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Reading and Literature

Literature

Poetry

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Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn

Study the Battle of Bannockburn through this poem by Robert Burns.

Subjects:

Reading and Literature

Poetry

Social Studies and History

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Read this love poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning with your students.

How Do I Love Thee?

Subjects:

Literature

Poetry

Reading and Literature

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Read this biography to learn more about Wilfred Owen, one of the great English poets of World War I.

Wilfred Owen Biography

Subjects:

Reading and Literature

Poetry

World War I (1914-1918)

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