$5 - $10 7th Grade Poetry Resources

Students love Kwame Alexander's verse novel The Crossover, and I love the rigor of these power worksheets! His novel is organized into sections just like a basketball game including:

• Warm-up free download here!
• First quarter
• Second quarter
• Third quarter
• Fourth quarter
• Overtime

This resource covers all of the poems in the First Quarter section; with each poem accompanying two pages of guided practice with middle school ELA standards including:

• Vocabulary and dictionary practice
• Inferencing
• Identifying figurative language 
• Making text-to-self connections
• compare and contrast characters
• Identifying Imagery
• Text structure
• Analyzing point of view

Did you know The Crossover is coming to Disney+? The novel is set to release a miniseries in 2023! If your class loves this text, check out my other resources:

• The Crossover Warm Up Standard Aligned handout for each poem! PDF & PPT (TeachShare.com)
• The Crossover First Quarter Standard Aligned handout for each poem! PDF & PPT (TeachShare.com)
• The Crossover Basketball Rules Motivational and Plot Posters PNG/PDF (TeachShare.com)

This power point goes through the different aspects of comedies found in Shakespeare's plays. A great resource to use before reading one of his comedies, put into an easy-to-understand lesson. Students may take notes from the power point and it includes examples of the concepts found in different plays.

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BUNDLE Holidays and Themes Writing Prompts for 7th-9th Grade | Engaging Middle School and Junior High Writing Activities

This collection of engaging writing prompts is designed to help students express themselves, explore new ideas, and develop their writing skills in a fun and inspiring way.
What’s Inside?

• 408 Poetry Prompts
• 306 Creative Writing Prompts
• No Prep Needed

Educational Benefits

• Enhances Writing Skills: Students practice and improve their writing skills through structured and creative exercises.
• Encourages Self-Expression: Prompts provide an outlet for students to express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas, fostering a sense of individuality and confidence.
• Stimulates Creativity: Diverse and imaginative prompts inspire students to think outside the box and explore new ways of writing.

Perfect for Various Settings
This versatile resource is ideal for:

• Classroom Activities: Use as part of your regular writing curriculum, in writing centers, or as warm-up exercises.
• Homework Assignments: Assign as homework to reinforce classroom learning and encourage creative writing at home.
• Supplemental Practice: Great for extra practice, early finishers, or as enrichment activities.
• Home Learning: Perfect for parents looking for engaging and educational activities to support their child's writing development.

Holidays and Themes Included:

1. 4th of July/USA
2. American Symbols
3. Arctic Animals
4. Around the World
5. Asian American History
6. Back to School
7. Beach/Ocean
8. Black History
9. Camping
10. Christmas
11. Cooking/Baking
12. Earth Day
13. Easter
14. Election
15. End of School Year/Summer
16. Fall
17. Farm
18. Father's Day
19. Groundhog Day
20. Halloween
21. Memorial Day
22. Mother's Day
23. Presidents' Day
24. Seasons
25. Space
26. Spring
27. St. Patrick's Day
28. Thanksgiving
29. Valentine's Day
30. Weather
31. Winter
32. Winter Holidays
33. Women's History
34. Zoo

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 is a bundle of 7 foldables for the poetry of Langston Hughes. It includes the 6 products linked above as well as the EXCLUSIVE foldable for "Harlem". This foldable is only available as part of this bundle as a "thank you" for your purchase. Please check out the details in each listing, and let me know if you have any questions!

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Need a fun way to introduce French poetry and review the passé composé at the same time? Your students will enjoy Déjeuner du Matin, Jacques Prévert, an engaging lesson that will save you loads of time. Differentiation is easy with this lesson that includes all four skills - reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

The poem Déjeuner du Matin is spectacularly well known in France, and it's especially easy to understand when you follow all of the steps in this lesson plan.

Expect your students to:

• learn new French vocabulary words
• practice the passé composé - regular, irregular, and reflexive verbs
• gain knowledge of French literature, especially Jacques Prévert
• begin to understand French culture through poetry
• explore and identify emotions in French
• make inferences before even reading the poem
• sharpen listening skills
• work on oral production
• write a short paragraph about the poem in their own words

Included:

• 8 page activity with YouTube and Quizlet links
• Lesson plan

How to use this resource:

• Watch an award winning 3 minute silent short film with your students.

• Students write what they think the poem is about after watching the video.

• Students identify what they felt while watching using French adjectives of emotion.

• Before reading the poem, vocabulary is introduced in a multiple choice activity.

• A quizlet vocabulary study set is provided to share with your students.

• Watch another video in which students will watch and hear the poem being read.

• Students will now have a better understanding of what the poem is about.

• Practice the passé composé, which is the tense that is used throughout the poem. Students fill in the blanks with the passé composé form of verbs in parentheses. Regular, irregular, and reflexive verbs are included.

• Students now have an opportunity to read the poem aloud.

• Work in pairs or small groups and take turns reading the poem collectively and individually.

• If possible, have students record themselves reading the poem aloud.

• Suggestion: Have students memorize and recite the poem for bonus points.

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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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This AVID Christmas and December Early Finisher Packet is designed to engage students with no-prep activities that reinforce WICOR skills (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading). Perfect for keeping early finishers productive, it offers Christmas-themed worksheets and fun challenges. Ideal for 5th-12th graders, this packet is a great way to combine learning and seasonal fun!

Make your classroom pop with this set of 25 posters featuring provocative quotes about poetry. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) PDF poster contains a quote about poetry imposed over a stunning photograph to spruce up your ELA classroom during your poetry unit. The square format makes for an eye-catching arrangement on your wall or bulletin board and serves as a great conversation starter. I suggest laminating the posters so that you can use them year after year!

Examples of quotes used in this resource:

• “Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.” ~ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.” ~ Robert Frost
• “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” ~ Emily Dickinson
• “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” ~ T.S. Eliot
• “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” ~ Plutarch

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Check out more resources for your poetry unit by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Poetry Unit Anticipation Activity

⭐ Poetry ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Figurative Language Escape Room

⭐ Figurative Language Challenge Game

⭐ Figurative Language in Pop Songs Task Cards

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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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Do you want to make reviewing figurative language a breeze? Are you struggling to find examples for your students? To you want to engage and motivate your students? Then download this BUNDLE Similes, Idioms, Oxymoron & Other Figurative Language Editable Lists! Use this as a handout or for your own worksheets!

Well suited for the Language Arts or ELL classroom, this resource includes editable lists of similes, metaphors, idioms, oxymorons, onomatopoeia, alliteration, consonance, and assonance.

➟ How to Use This Resource:

• As a handout
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• To put in a writing binder or at writing centers for students to use

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• 128 Idioms with definitions
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• 42 Metaphors
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Engage your students and strengthen their reading comprehension with this comprehensive set of 30 daily warm-ups.

I'm always looking for short, effective practice pieces for high-frequency skills that I can use with my students, but the nature of RLA is that most texts tend to be longer--so I created my own set of warm ups!

These warms-ups address high-frequency skills and spiral multiple times over the course of 6 weeks to give students multiple attempts to show growth on each skill.

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• 30 engaging warm-up activities (enough for 6 full school weeks!)
• A variety of skills spiraled throughout the six-week program
• Gradual increase in difficulty to challenge students
• Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation
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Watch your students' reading skills soar as they master key concepts through repeated practice and application. These warm-ups are perfect for independent work, small group instruction, or homework.

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This bundle includes three resources that go along with the movie The Great Debaters. You will receive a graphic organizer that requires students to track the adversities faced by the debate team during and/or after viewing, a poetry analysis tool for "I, Too", which Denzel Washington as Professor Tolson recites during the movie (one of my favorite parts!), as well as a fun, interactive speed dating discussion activity for after viewing. Please check out each product individually using the links below. I show this movie before reading Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry since the settings are so similar, but you could use it in your own classroom in a variety of different ways! Let me know if you have any questions!

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Make your classroom pop with this set of 25 posters featuring provocative quotes about poetry. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) PDF poster contains a quote about poetry imposed over a stunning photograph to spruce up your ELA classroom during your poetry unit. The square format makes for an eye-catching arrangement on your wall or bulletin board and serves as a great conversation starter. I suggest laminating the posters so that you can use them year after year!

Examples of quotes used in this resource:

• “Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.” ~ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.” ~ Robert Frost
• “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” ~ Emily Dickinson
• “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” ~ T.S. Eliot
• “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” ~ Plutarch

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Check out more resources for your poetry unit by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Poetry Unit Anticipation Activity

⭐ Poetry ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Figurative Language Escape Room

⭐ Figurative Language Challenge Game

⭐ Figurative Language in Pop Songs Task Cards

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This is a bundle of 5 foldables for the poetry of Claude McKay; It includes all 5 of the products linked above. I find foldables to be an excellent way to chunk the text and make poetry more accessible to my students. Please check out the details in each listing, and let me know if you have any questions!

Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM for ELA!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Valentine's Day-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your classroom on Valentine's Day and cannot leave until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about the holiday of love!

• Hugs & Homophones: In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about Valentine's Day and must identify the incorrectly used homophone in each passage. They must write the correct homophone in their student answer booklet. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal their first code.
• Love Talk: In the second task, students will read 8 quotes about love from famous figures and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the quotes. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the second code.
• Shall I Compare Thee: In the third task, students will perform a close reading of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 18, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day. Then, they will answer multiple choice questions about the poem. Letters of the correct answers will reveal their third code.
• Fondly Figurative: In the fourth task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in popular love songs. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the fourth code.
• VDay Trivia: In the final task, students will be quizzed on what they learned throughout the first four tasks and enter their answers to Valentine's Day trivia questions in a fun crossword puzzle. Circled boxes within the puzzle will reveal their final code.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Booklet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for any time during the month of February.

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⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language in Love Songs PowerPoint

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language in Love Songs Task Cards

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This is a bundle of 3 foldables for the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar; It includes all 3 of the products linked above. I find foldables to be an excellent way to chunk the text and make poetry more accessible to my students. Please check out the details in each listing, and let me know if you have any questions!

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This activity features an engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 puzzles covering plot, figurative language, story elements and quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task (and it is!), but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. It is the perfect activity for Halloween or any day you want to shake it up with your students without sacrificing learning. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

In this escape room, students will try to escape out of the narrator's basement of horror by solving 4 different puzzles, discovering a hidden message through hidden jig saw puzzle pieces, and finding clues along the way.

• In the first task, students must order the plot events of The Black Cat on Freytag's Pyramid. Once solved, corresponding letters reveal the first code.
• In the second task, students must identify 7 types of figurative language within the short story. Highlighted boxes in the correct answers will reveal the code.
• In the third task, students must solve a word maze. Letters collected along the way unscrambled will reveal the code.
• In the fourth task, students must answer challenging multiple choice questions about The Black Cat that when correct, will reveal the code.
• In the fifth and final task, students must discover the hidden message (a quote from The Black Cat) using puzzle pieces they collected during the first four tasks.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Booklet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

- Theme Reflection for homework assignment or in-class writing activity

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Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Poetry ESCAPE ROOM - Halloween Edition!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Halloween-themed Escape Room about poetry. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your room has been transformed into a haunted house of horrors and your students can only escape by solving 5 challenging poetry skills-based tasks about Halloween!

• In Cold Blood: In the first task, students must fill in the blanks with the Halloween-inspired idioms. Once cards are assembled correctly, designated letters within each card reveal the first code.
• Haunted: In the second task, students must correctly identify the figurative language devices used in the chilling poem, Haunted by Siegfried Sassoon. Shaded boxes within the answers will reveal the second code.
• Watch Your Tone: In the third task, students will read 6 excerpts from Halloween-inspired poems by authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Lord Byron and identify the tone of each poem. When cards are matched correctly, shaded letters will reveal the code.
• The Witch: In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge's famously dark poem, The Witch. The letters of the multiple choice questions about the poem will form the fourth code.... "Let me in at the door!"
• Pop Quiz: In the final task, students must complete a crossword puzzle using information they learned from the first four tasks. Circled letters within the crossword will reveal the final code. Once they bring that to you, they may escape the haunted house of horrors.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Booklet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal during the month of October or any time you want to give your students a fright!

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