Free found poetry resources with classroom activities, lesson ideas, writing exercises, and creative techniques for transforming existing words and texts into poems.
A reference article by Gary R. Hess describing 55 poetry forms and styles, including acrostic, ballad, blank verse, cinquain, concrete, epic, free verse, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, limerick, narrative, ode, sonnet, sestina, tanka, terza rima, villanelle and visual poetry.
Openly licensed instructional strategy showing teachers how students can create blackout poems from existing source text using selected anchor words and phrases.
A grades 10–11 lesson that uses blackout poetry to help students rethink writing, overcome creative blocks, analyze mentor texts, and create original poems.
Free K–2 found-poetry lesson in which children collect favorite words and phrases from familiar books, arrange them into a class poem, and perform it.
Free Library of Congress poetry lesson for grades 6–12 in which students use Depression-era oral histories and primary sources to create found poetry.
A detailed English 10 poetry unit plan covering reading, writing, theme, ballads, found poetry, imagery, symbolism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox, allusion, assonance, consonance, meter, and student assessment.
Openly licensed Grade 9 lesson that develops comprehension of Shakespearean language through comparison, paraphrase, close reading, music, and a blackout-poetry activity.
Openly licensed high-school lesson using Woody Guthrie, song lyrics, historical context, and blackout poetry to explore social commentary, figurative meaning, and poetic expression.
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