Free poetry and art resources including ekphrastic writing, illustrated poetry, calligrams, shape poems, visual poetry activities, lesson plans, and creative classroom projects.
Openly licensed Grade 5 creative-writing lesson in which students take photographs and compose descriptive poems inspired by visual details and personal identity.
Openly licensed instructional strategy showing teachers how students can create blackout poems from existing source text using selected anchor words and phrases.
Openly licensed Grades 7–8 lesson connecting music, song lyrics, sensory details, descriptive language, visual art, and original poetry writing.
Free K–2 poetry and visual-art lesson introducing calligrams, word placement, nouns, alphabet skills, and visual poetry through a class alphabet-book project.
Free high-school poetry unit teaching ekphrasis through art analysis, poetry reading, prewriting, literary devices, original poems, revision, and a final poetry booklet.
Free K–2 arts-integrated poetry lesson in which students study nature photographs, brainstorm adjectives, make cyanotype-inspired art, and write original descriptive poems.
Free K–2 poetry and art lesson in which students build descriptive vocabulary from a still-life painting and use adjectives to create a shape poem.
Free K–2 poetry and art activity using touch, texture, descriptive vocabulary, adjectives, and close observation to collaboratively create a class poem.
Openly licensed classroom strategy for synthesizing learning on a single page using images, key concepts, questions, reflection, and an optional summary poem.
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