https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0 Poetry Resources Blue items are eBooks that can be shared via URL en-us 2020-04-13 22:46:08 UTC 2025-10-26 20:31:19 UTC hello@padlet.com dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505355920 Copyright: Lesson Plans. NEH holds the copyright for lesson plans and student resources, and licenses such content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This License allows subsequent users to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the content and requires such users to attribute the work to NEH.
Emily Dickinson study unit that can be shared via Google Classroom]]> 2020-04-13 22:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505355920 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505363497 Copyright 2011. IRA/NCTE all rights reserved. ReadWriteThink materials may be reproduced for educational purposes.]]> 2020-04-13 22:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505363497 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505371326 Send your students on a scavenger hunt for favorite poems in the Poems for Kids section of Poets.org.
 

]]> 2020-04-13 23:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505371326 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505377432 Celebrate Earth Day with this lesson plan which asks students to build a birdhouse out of reusable materials.

]]> 2020-04-13 23:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505377432 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505473404 The Poetry Foundation]]> 2020-04-14 01:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505473404 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505485994  Reprint rights info. Link provides sample source citation needed if content used. https://www.educationworld.com/reprint_rights.shtml
To identify the theme of a poem based on details in the text.]]> 2020-04-14 01:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505485994 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505502702 SLJ shares ways you and your students can celebrate poetry from home. There are low-tech suggestions that include drawing, noticing, wondering, and composing. There are also high-tech suggestions including the investigation of online poetry sites.]]> 2020-04-14 01:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/505502702 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/507069465 Reprint rights - link provides sample source citation needed if content is used. https://www.educationworld.com/reprint_rights.shtml 
A perfect culminating activity for your biography, history, or literature unit. If you plan to have your students write biography acrostics, you might share a few samples of this form . . . Examples provided in the lesson plan. ]]> 2020-04-14 18:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/507069465 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/507159630 Students can compose and publish their own poems using the Theme Poems interactive from ReadWriteThink.
Copyright 2012. IRA/NCTE all rights reserved. ReadWriteThink materials may be reproduced for educational purposes.]]> 2020-04-14 19:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/507159630 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/507270772 Pages 16-21 of PDF Not sure how you usually use/share these released items]]> 2020-04-14 20:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/507270772 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/509284609 Provides instructions for creating anthologies that can be shared with students on websites/online.]]> 2020-04-15 19:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/509284609 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/509288585 Scroll down to the bottom of the page and sign up for the newsletter which provides free to use lesson plans and extension ideas for poems. ]]> 2020-04-15 19:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/509288585 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/509400046 Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Use the "No Strings Attached" "Terms of Use" filter. Search results "Poetry"]]> 2020-04-15 20:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/509400046 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510441410 Children's poems - listen online free access]]> 2020-04-16 11:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510441410 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510448282 Poem generator]]> 2020-04-16 11:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510448282 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510454021 In this lesson, students will learn about Walt Whitman’s brave actions and highly regarded writings. After viewing a video about his life, students will examine the frontispiece and title page of an early edition of Leaves and Grass and will analyze one of its most famous poems. The lesson concludes with students writing an updated version of “I Hear America Singing” reflecting what they have learned about Whitman’s beliefs about our country. (T & L permission to use.)]]> 2020-04-16 11:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510454021 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510470238 Students watch a video segment about the legend of "John Henry" and learn about the literary devices personification and hyperbole. (T & L permission to use.)]]> 2020-04-16 11:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510470238 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510482853 Free access through Abdo COVID-19 free trial until May 31. No login required, just share the link.]]> 2020-04-16 11:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510482853 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510494360 Free access through Abdo COVID-19 free trial until May 31. No login, just share the link.
Contains definitions and examples of poetic devices, through poems, including hyperbole, repetition, punctuation, stanzas, speaker, and more.]]> 2020-04-16 11:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510494360 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510521176 2020-04-16 12:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510521176 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510992477 2020-04-16 15:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/510992477 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511017855 Students begin the lesson by activating background knowledge about the American Revolution. They then conduct research on a historical figure. When research is complete, students write an acrostic poem about the historical figure's importance to the American Revolution.]]> 2020-04-16 15:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511017855 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511038956 The Riddle Interactive encourages students to use language in such a way as to present a common thing as unfamiliar, asking their readers/listeners to guess what it is. Good riddles rely upon use of metaphor, simile, and metonymy; concrete imagery; and description of an object or concept.]]> 2020-04-16 15:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511038956 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511338384 Link the diamante poems to events or experiences such as a nature walk just off campus, closure for a certain class activity/unit,an end-of-term remembrance, etc.]]> 2020-04-16 18:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511338384 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511379787 2020-04-16 18:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511379787 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511384640 Wonderopolis]]> 2020-04-16 18:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511384640 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511694227 Students will discover the works of important
African-American poets, classroom activities designed to
encourage them to develop their own poetic voices,
discussion guides, bibliographies and links to engaging
online poetry resources.]]> 2020-04-16 21:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511694227 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511714401 3 minute video.  (T & L approved PBS Learning for use).]]> 2020-04-16 21:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511714401 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511734405 Free access through Abdo Publishing COVID-19 free trial until May 31. No login, just share the link.]]> 2020-04-16 22:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511734405 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511736594 Free access through Abdo Publishing COVID-19 free trial until May 31. No login, just share the link.]]> 2020-04-16 22:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511736594 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511747715 Free access through Abdo Publishing COVID-19 free trial until May 31. No login, just share the link.]]> 2020-04-16 22:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511747715 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511874020 Free access through Abdo Publishing COVID-19 free trial until May 31. No login, just share the link.]]> 2020-04-17 00:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/511874020 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/514796644 ReadWorks
Copyright permissions for the 2019-2020 school year - please print, copy, post, and share! ]]> 2020-04-18 23:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/514796644 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/514802956 Teacher's Guide to accompany 22 min video available in Safari Montage ]]> 2020-04-18 23:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/514802956 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/517208049 Infer and visualize to better understand and connect with the poem "The Road Not Taken" ]]> 2020-04-20 11:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/517208049 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/517259588 BTSB wants you to know that during these unprecedented school closures, to support educators, parents, students. Their resources specialist team compiled a list of academic resources for students learning from home. Use this site in any way you find helpful and share anywhere you see fit.]]> 2020-04-20 11:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/517259588 dawnmcgee https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/517439813 Use the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet for subject specific resources.]]> 2020-04-20 13:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dawnmcgee/6z9qavnct3c2o1a0/wish/517439813