Welcome to a resource guide of tools, handouts, organizers, and activities about poetry themes, vocabulary, close reads, and devices.
 
Contents Include:
 
- Terms of use
- What is Poetry? – Teacher Resource
- What is Poetry – Student Blank Copy
- Vocabulary
- Organizing Poems
- Theme Activity #1 – Shel Silverstein
- Theme Activity #2 – Jack Prelutsky
- Close Read Poem #1 – Christina Rossetti
- Close Read Poem #2 – Judith Viorst
- Close Read Poem #3 – Lilian Moore
- Rhyming Activity
- Rhythm Activity
- Alliteration – Tongue Twisters
- Alliteration – Brainstorming
- Similes in Poems
- Metaphors in Poems
- Onomatopoeia Analysis
- Onomatopoeia Poem Activity
- Poem Main Idea and Detail
- Poem Sequencing
 
Enjoy and thank you!
Caroline