8th Grade Poetry
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EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Poetry Lessons & Activities: Gallery of Worksheets (Grades 6-8)
Poetry lesson plans for Grades 6-8. The study of poetry can lead your students to new levels of creativity and reading…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReadingPoetry -
ASSESSMENT
Scoring Rubric: Poetry
Use this rubric when you are having your students write their own poetry. Grading your students work will be easier with…Subjects:Language Arts and WritingPoetryCreative Writing -
WORKBOOKS
Elements of Poetry Workbook
Use this poetry toolbox workbook to support your students to learn different poetic terms and devices, and then practice…Subjects:Language Arts and WritingReading and LiteraturePoetry -
LESSON PLANS
Emotion Similes Writing Project
Examples of emotion similes, and a writing project for using them Learn about how to convey emotion in written…SubjectsReading and LiteraturePoetryCreative Writing -
WORKSHEETS
Types of Poetry
Students become familiar with the different types of poetry, including clerihew, diamonte, couplet, limerick, list…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureReadingPoetry -
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Independent Reading Guide: Poetry
Use a teaching guide that helps students analyze the elements of poetry, their responses to the selection, and the craft…Subjects:Reading ComprehensionLiteraturePoetry -
LESSON PLANS
Metaphor Unit Poems
Students learn about metaphors and similes, and write a poem using metaphors.SubjectsReading and LiteraturePoetryLiterary Style and Techniques -
TEACHING RESOURCE
Sample Metaphor Poems
Use these sample poems to teach the basics of metaphors. A great supplement for a poetry, creative writing, or reading…Subjects:Reading and LiteraturePoetryCreative Writing -
WORKSHEETS
Harry Potter Haiku Handout
This worksheet defines and gives examples of haiku poems, and helps students to write their own. Use this fun activity…Subjects:Reading and LiteraturePoetryTeaching Harry Potter -
LESSON
Comparing and Contrasting Poetry Lesson Plans
This three-day lesson digs deeper into poetic and literary critical thinking by having students read grade-level lexiled…Subjects:LiteraturePoetryWriting -
WORKSHEETS
Langston Hughes, an Everyday Poet
Read about Langston Hughes's, an african american poet who is considered one of the best of all times. This biography…Subjects:Reading and LiteraturePoetryAfrican-American History -
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Denotation/Connotation
The vocabulary words used in this lesson stem from realism literature. Students are asked to explore the…Subjects:Reading ComprehensionLiteraturePoetry -
LESSON PLANS
Listening to Poems While Reading Along
Choose one of Taylor Mali's poems to use in this poetry lesson plan. You will discuss how the poem changes in perceived…Subjects:Reading and LiteraturePoetryAuthors -
ACTIVITIES
Poetry Jam! Sub Kit (Grades 7-8)
The activities in this substitute teacher kit (grades 7-8) will help students write and appreciate poetry.Subjects:Reading and LiteraturePoetryCreative Writing -
WORKSHEETS
Poetry Terms Quiz
Administer a quiz that gauges students' knowledge of poetry types and terms. You can use this during National Poetry…Subjects:Reading and LiteraturePoetryLanguage Arts and Writing -
WORKSHEETS
Patriotic Poems and Songs
Learn about the birth of America through patriotic poems and songs.Subjects:Reading and LiteraturePoetryAmerican History/U.S. History -
LESSON PLANS
Inaugural Poetry
Review poems read at presidential inauguration ceremonies with this lesson plan. After the presidential election is…SubjectsReading ComprehensionLiteraturePoetry -
LESSON PLANS
Poems, Poems, and More Poems
In this printable computer activity, students learn about different types of poetry. They practice their word processing…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureLiteraturePoetry -
LESSON PLANS
Acrostic Poems
In this computer activity, students review acrostic poems and compose their own poem on a PowerPoint slide. Then, they…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureLiteraturePoetry -
WORKSHEETS
Heroic Couplets
Review these couplets written in iambic pentameter.Subjects:Reading and LiteraturePoetryLiterary Style and Techniques -
LESSON PLANS
Harry Potter Haiku
Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.SubjectsReading ComprehensionLiteratureTeaching Harry Potter -
REFERENCE
Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series One
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…Subjects:PoetryLiterary BiographiesSuffrage and Women's Rights -
WORKSHEETS
How to Read a Poem
This student handout will help students to read, understand, evaluate, and write poetry.Subjects:PoetryReading ComprehensionReading Instruction -
LESSON PLANS
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…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureLiteraturePoetry