6th Grade Poetry Activities

A perfect Valentine's Day or Ground Hog Day poetry activity. You can use this anytime in February! Students will be given direction on how to write a Haiku with the proper syllables. Then they will read two examples and write their own Haiku. They can write about anything that reminds them of February: Ground Hog Day, Valentine's Day, winter, etc. This is great for a writing center or just for a fun creative writing activity as a whole class.

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Looking for a thought-provoking, creative activity to pair with your Wonder novel study? This acrostic poem and "Design Your Own Choose Kindness Shirt" art activity are just what you need to inspire your students while reinforcing themes of kindness, empathy, and self-expression!

Recommended for grades 5-8.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

✨ Acrostic Poem Template: Students use their names to craft thoughtful poems inspired by the story and its powerful message. It’s perfect for encouraging critical thinking and creativity.

✨ Kindness T-Shirt Design Activity: Have your students imagine they’re creating their own “kindness campaign” by designing a T-shirt with a positive message or a powerful quote from the book. This hands-on activity promotes individuality, self-expression, and classroom collaboration.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT FOR YOUR CLASSROOM OR HOMESCHOOL:

✔️ No Prep, Easy to Use – Just print and go!

✔️ Aligned with SEL Themes – Focus on empathy, respect, and inclusivity.

✔️ Fun and Flexible – Use as a quick activity, a station in your classroom, or as part of a larger unit on Wonder.

✨ BONUS: These activities also make a great bulletin board display to celebrate your students’ creativity and showcase the lessons learned from Wonder.

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A Powerpoint which provides a brief overview of rhythm and rhyme scheme using poetry. I've used this as an introduction to poetry and pair this up with a poem in which students must find the rhyme scheme. It can be used with any poem.

Explore United States history through the art of haiku with the History in A Haiku Activity! This comprehensive kit is designed to enrich and engage students in their understanding of U.S. History while honing their creative writing skills. With carefully curated historical prompts, research resources, and a structured writing process, this activity offers a dynamic way to learn about various U.S. historical topics and craft expressive haikus.

Key Features:

• 30 Fascinating Historical Prompts: Choose from a diverse range of 30 U.S. historical topics that span different cultures, regions, and time periods.
• Grading Rubric: A comprehensive grading rubric guides students in meeting the criteria for historical accuracy, creative expression, language use, and more.
• Step-by-Step Guide: A detailed lesson plan and instructions make it easy to implement the activity effectively in your classroom.
• Extensions and Variations: Discover ways to extend the activity with group collaboration, multimedia integration, and exciting variations to cater to diverse learning preferences.
• Bonus Challenge: Encourage creativity with a bonus challenge that offers students the opportunity to earn extra credit by incorporating unique historical references.
• Grading Scale: A clear grading scale ensures students understand the evaluation process and helps you provide constructive feedback.
• Teacher Instructions: Detailed teacher instructions and suggestions for variations provide you with a flexible framework to adapt the activity to your classroom's needs.

Benefits:

• Enhance Historical Understanding: Foster a deeper understanding of world history by researching and connecting with different cultures and periods.
• Develop Creative Writing Skills: Cultivate creativity and descriptive language skills as students craft haikus that convey historical messages and imagery.
• Engaging and Interactive: The activity actively involves students in research, critical thinking, and artistic expression, making history come alive.
• Tailored Learning: Choose prompts that align with your curriculum or pique students' interests, creating a personalized learning experience.
• Meaningful Assessment: Assess historical understanding, language skills, and creativity through a well-defined grading rubric.

Immerse your students in the past, inspire their creativity, cultivate a deeper appreciation for history and language, and bring history to life in your classroom!

Make Halloween exciting and engaging with this Halloween Riddles Task Cards & Scavenger Hunt! This fun and interactive halloween activity is perfect for Year 3-6 students, encouraging teamwork, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.

Halloween Scavenger Hunt Product Features:

• 8 Riddle Task Cards: Each card features a unique Halloween riddles designed to challenge and entertain students.
• Group Activity: Students work in small groups to solve each riddle, promoting collaboration and communication.
• Scavenger Hunt Format: Solving the Halloween riddles leads students through an exciting scavenger hunt around the classroom or school, adding an element of adventure and discovery.
• Easy to Use: Simply print and cut out the task cards, distribute them to student groups, and let the fun begin!
• Versatile: Perfect for Halloween week, team building exercises, or any time you want to add a bit of fun to your classroom routine.

How It Works:

1. Divide Students into Groups: Create small groups to foster teamwork. This could be a great opportunity when heading back to school for students to work with someone they don't know.
2. Distribute Task Cards: Display the cards around the room for students to find.
3. Solve the Halloween themed Riddles: Groups work together to figure out the answers to each riddle.
4. Scavenger Hunt: Each solved riddle means they can move on to the next back to school riddles! The first team to find and answer all the riddles is the winner!

Benefits:

• Engages Students: Keeps students motivated and excited to learn during Halloween week!
• Develops Skills: Enhances problem solving abilities, critical thinking, and cooperative learning.

Kick off Halloween with an activity that combines fun and learning! Halloween Riddles Task Cards & Scavenger Hunt will make your classroom a place of laughter, teamwork, and intellectual growth.

Looking for more Halloween resources? Check out these! Perfect for Halloween literacy centres!

Halloween Readers Theatre

Halloween Descriptive Writing

Halloween Activities Book

Halloween Writing Prompts

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Craft creative text message poems instantly! Your friend's in a pinch, tasked with writing a self-poem due in 10 minutes. Don't let them down—help them shine with our quick, witty, and unique text message poetry ideas. Get inspired and rescue your friend's grade with our rapid-fire poetic solutions. Dive into the world of spontaneous verse crafting and save the day with clever lines and heartfelt sentiments. Instant text message poetry for last-minute rescue missions!

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Engage your students in a captivating exploration of the celestial wonder that is a total solar eclipse with these total solar eclipse poetry and creative writing prompts! This comprehensive resource is designed specifically for 7th to 9th-grade classrooms and is meticulously crafted to align with Common Core State Standards, ensuring meaningful and educational experiences for your students.

Inside this collection, you'll find 12 poetry prompts and 9 creative writing prompts, all centered around the theme of total solar eclipses. These prompts are thought-provoking and provide students with a deeper understanding of astronomy while honing their language arts skills.

The poetry prompts encourage students to explore the beauty and mystery of total solar eclipses through vivid imagery, figurative language, and emotional expression. Students will delve into topics such as the symbolism of darkness and light, the dance of the sun and moon, and the cultural significance of eclipses throughout history.

In addition to the poetry prompts, the creative writing prompts in this collection challenge students. From crafting science fiction stories set in eclipse-powered futures to debating the cultural impact of eclipses in ancient civilizations, these prompts foster critical thinking and imaginative exploration.

As the upcoming total solar eclipse captures the curiosity and wonder of students everywhere, this collection provides you with a ready-to-use resource that seamlessly integrates science, language arts, and creativity. Spark meaningful discussions, inspire literary creations, and deepen your students' understanding of the universe with these prompts.

35 Mother's Day English and Spanish elementary grade activities for coloring and writing. 

Includes:

• letters
• poems
• banners
• word searches (lower & upper reading levels)
• reasons why you're a great mom
• stationary with borders
• and much, much more!

Great for cutting and pasting, to give as gifts, and for teaching coloring and creative writing skills. Great Mother's Day memory makers!

Pair with Mother's Day Coloring Sheets from Educator Helper.

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Puzzles are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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This product bundles 5 of my best-selling resources together for one discounted price! You'll get 2 figurative language station activities: 1 for "The Tell-Tale Heart", and 1 for "The Raven". You'll also get 2 foldable poetry analysis tools: 1 for "A Dream Within A Dream" and 1 for "Alone". Finally, I've included a Table Top Twitter/ Silent Discussion Analysis Activity for "The Pit and the Pendulum". Please check out each product individually! This would make for a really fun mini unit during the week of Halloween! Thank you!

Ring in the new year with this NO PREP acrostic poem goal writing activity! Students can choose their favorite words and write their own acrostic poem on the printable template while spelling out the words HAPPY NEW YEAR. Enjoy as morning work, center activity, brain break, or for your New Year's Party!

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Directions:

• Print the template in color or black and white
• students write a word or phrase to describe what they hope the new year will bring for them or what goals they have for the new year
• In an acrostic poem, each line starts with a capital letter that spells out the poem's theme vertically
• Acrostic poems don't need to rhyme, but all the other poetic devices like alliteration, similes, and rhythm are often used to create an effect on the reader

What's included?

• 1 "Happy New Year" acrostic poem template in Color
• 1 "Happy New Year" acrostic poem template in Black and White

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Looking for fun activities for the first days or week back to school? This Metaphor Poetry ELA Project is a fun, no-prep project your students will LOVE! It can be completed after state testing or as part of end of the year activities and will be a hit! Perfect for middle school or high school. Students will not only write a poem utilizing an extended metaphor,but they will also get creative in order to present the poem visually for a bulletin board display.

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This is an activity I use in my classroom every year toward the end of the year and I know your students will love it! Although writing poetry can be daunting, this project is highly structured, forcing students to adhere to the parameters and the result is unique and guaranteed to impress once completed.

INCLUDED WITH YOUR PURCHASE:

• 26 Slide PDF with a step-by-step process of writing a Metaphor Poem

• Printable Pre-Writing Organizer

• Printable Poem Writing Template

• 2 Printable Bulletin Board Banners for Display - color and black & white

STUDENT GUIDELINES FOR USING THIS RESOURCE

Completed with a partner, students will analyze how writers use metaphors in poetry by looking at examples. The PDF provides multiple examples to guide students. They will then read and analyze a mentor poem and utilize the same structure to write their poem. They will love creating their poems and watching their ideas come to life! This well-organized activity allows students to effortlessly become poets, while thinking about concise and precise word choice, counting syllables to create rhythm, getting exposure to high-quality examples, and learning something new! This project should take about 2 weeks, from start to finish and is perfect for display.

***Optional Competitive Element:
I always choose Finalistsbased on poem structure, meaning and how they visualized their metaphor. I then ask another teacher to select 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. And of course, the winners get a prize!

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Writing an Acrostic Poem can be a fun and interesting project for your students. Students can use their name, a season, holiday, or use someone else's name for a gift. This packet includes information to share with your students about what an acrostic poem is, the steps taken to write an acrostic poem, and why we write one.

Students will learn about the following before writing an acrostic poem - what an acrostic poem is, what makes up an acrostic poem is, what they can be about, how they are written, what makes up an acrostic poem, and a list of positive adjectives are also included in this product to help students if they are going to write an acrostic poem about themselves.

An example of three possible poem theme ideas, an acrostic poem example, a an acrostic poem brainstorming chart, and three acrostic poem templates are included in this product.

At the end of the product, there is a reminder checklist, to help remind students to go back and check their work once it is completed.

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This product features a set of 24 colorful and fun figurative language task cards, each containing a quote from a different popular song and a corresponding picture. Your students will have a ball practicing their identification of figurative language with these fun cards! Cards cover: - Metaphor - Simile - Hyperbole - Oxymoron - Personification - Onomatopoeia - Allusion - Repetition - Alliteration Product also includes a blank answer sheet for students and answer key for teachers. _____________________________________________________________________ Also, make sure you check out our newest version of figurative language task cards and/or powerpoint with all the top songs from 2017!! ⭐ Figurative Language in 2017 Hit Music Task Cards ⭐Figurative Language in 2017 Hit Music PowerPoint ⭐Figurative Language in 2017 Hit Music PowerPoint & Task Card BUNDLE

Nothing like catching two curriculum areas in one. This assignment will help you meet expectations in both music and language. Students are asked to analyze poetry and lyrics, both those used in class and those of their own choosing. The assignment has students looking at: * vocabulary used * structure * techniques * important words * feelings Students are also asked to consider how the poem/music is meant to be performed. They are also asked to consider the background of the poet/musician.

Set of 4 coloring bookmarks with the quote from the poem by Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" to be used as low prep activity, gifts, early finishers, additions to sub plans, and more.

Here are some ideas on how to use them in your classroom, library, or at a book club:

• Book Club and Classroom Discussions: Use the bookmarks as prompts for book club discussions.
• End-of-Term Gifts: Consider gifting the finished bookmarks to students at the end of the term as a personalized and meaningful memento of their time in your class.
• Use bookmarks book club member rewards/gifts.
• Attach bookmarks to a pack of coloring pens or a book for a small gift.
• Homemade Gifts: Encourage students to give their colored bookmarks to classmates, friends, or family members who enjoy reading.
• Collaborative Coloring: Set up a collaborative coloring station where students can work together to create a large, colorful bookmark collage, using bookmarks featuring quotes from different books.

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• Use as decorations for scrapbooks or reading journals.
• Coloring during read-at-loud times.
• Classroom Decor: string together the colored bookmarks to create a unique and personalized classroom decoration that reflects the artistic talents of your students.

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What does your middle school poetry unit look like? If you want to incorporate verse novels, but don't know where to start, this resource is a perfect fit!

This Starbooks Virtual Book Tasting with Verse Novels resource introduces students to a variety of popular verse novels, allowing them to browse and rate their favorites.

Each novel provides the following:

• Title
• Author
• Cover
• Synopsis
• Link to video book trailer
• Ratings page

This DIGITAL resource has EDITABLE PARTS in Google Slides™

Included in this resource:

• Title Page
• Table of Contents (for the teacher)
• Note to the Teacher (for the teacher)
• Thank You (for the teacher)
• Student Introduction (welcome/introduction)
• Menu (list of verse novels, linked to their respective slides)
• Book Tasting Pages (one slide to show the book preview and one slide for ratings/reviews)

Verse Novels Included:

Flooded by Ann E. Burg

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg

Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham

Addie on the Inside by James Howe

And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard

The Language Inside by Holly Thompson

Booked by Kwame Alexander

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton

Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

House Arrest by K. A. Holt

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

May B. by Caroline Starr Rose

The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge

Unbound by Ann E. Burg

BLANK template slides are included to help you add your own verse novels, based on your classroom availability!

The Google Drive link will bring to a folder with the old and new versions - pick whichever one you'd like!

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Learn to Have FUN with Poetry!

Add this introduction to your unit on poetry to engage your students in reading and writing several different styles of poetry. Your students will learn the basic elements of poetry and how to write some of the most common and fun kinds of poems! Spark a love of poetry in your students with this engaging unit!

Includes 20 pages that cover:

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• Acrostic
• Free Verse

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1.      Same Picture Four Settings- Students are given a partial character drawing and asked to draw that character in four different settings. There are two ways to complete this assignment. I have provided a list of possible settings to draw out (students would pick these out of a hat/bowl, OR they could choose four from the list to use).

2.      Describe the Setting-Five different pictures are given. You can give it to students at random or give it to all five students. Their instructions are to (using complete sentences) describe the setting.

3.      Setting for any book- Use this chart to help students fill out their knowledge of the setting of any book.

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