Free poetry performance resources including recitation activities, choral reading, oral interpretation, poetry presentations, classroom performances, and speaking activities.
Openly licensed Grades 11–12 ELA lesson that uses a slam poem alongside other texts to develop summarizing, interpretation, and concise writing skills.
Openly licensed Grade 9 ELA lesson on theme, characterization, mood, empathy, and a culminating Two-Voice Poem activity.
Openly licensed Grade 8 U.S. history lesson using primary sources and a Two-Voice Poem to explore perspectives of groups during the Civil War.
Openly licensed Grades 6–12 social-studies lesson in which students examine competing historical perspectives and create a two-voice poem representing different viewpoints.
Openly licensed Grades 9–10 lesson that uses contrasting perspectives, characterization, comparison, and student-created Two-Voice Poems.
Free high-school poetry lesson for analyzing and comparing medieval and modern ballads before students write and perform original ballads.
Free K–2 Smithsonian lesson introducing Brazilian embolada, a rhythmic form of improvised poetry and song, through listening, body percussion, rhythm, dialogue, and performance.
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 teacher strategy guide for using poetry performance, repeated reading, choral reading, expression, voice, gesture, and classroom poetry events to improve fluency and comprehension.
Openly licensed Grade 8 history lesson that uses primary sources and Two-Voice Poetry to compare competing perspectives on Manifest Destiny.
Free printable spoken word poetry performance rubric & quiz with 10 questions and a teacher answer key for classroom poetry assessment and review.
A broad classroom poetry teaching guide with activities for rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, simile, metaphor, alliteration, limerick, acrostic, diamante, shape poetry, haiku, cinquain, free verse, reading, writing, and performance.
A teacher-education study guide covering methods for teaching prose and poetry, including the aims of poetry instruction, rhyme, preparation, presentation, discussion, recitation, rhythm, vocabulary development, and appreciation.
Openly licensed Grade 9 poetry lesson exploring the history, cultural influences, performance traditions, and literary perspectives of spoken word poetry.
A Smithsonian classroom guide connecting poetry and music through ballad stanzas, blues, iambic rhythm, meter, scansion, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and hands-on activities that move poetry from the page into rhythm and performance.
A 29-page teacher toolkit with practical poetry-reading and writing activities, warm-ups, poem jigsaws, object-voice writing, imaginative prompts, eavesdropping, praise poems, close observation, and advice for starting to teach poetry.
A three-week Grade 10 poetry unit by Tom Deshotels connecting poetry with popular music, poetic devices, sensory writing, poem analysis, background knowledge, performance, chapbooks, and student presentations.
Openly licensed Grades 11–12 close-reading lesson that develops inferencing skills and includes a Two-Voice Poem as an extension and performance option.
Openly licensed K20 instructional strategy for comparing and contrasting two perspectives by writing and performing a Two-Voice Poem.
Openly licensed Grades 10–11 lesson on tone using song lyrics, nonfiction, close reading, civil-rights texts, and a Two-Voice Poem activity.
Openly licensed Grades 8–10 poetry lesson in which students analyze figurative language, brainstorm sensory memories, explore identity and community, and compose an original Where I'm From poem.
Openly licensed teacher professional-learning resource featuring multiple writing strategies, including Two-Voice Poems, with handouts, slides, and classroom implementation ideas.
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