ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry Introduction
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces several types of poetry, gives the elements and examples of each type. The types of poetry include color poetry, limericks, free verse, and couplets.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Diamond Poem
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the structure and composition of a Diamond Poem. After studying the characteristics of a poem, students have the opportunity to construct one of their own.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction to Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches forms of poetry. It goes over a few key poetry definitions and then gives examples of a haiku and cinquain.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing a Bio Poem
This site describes how a Bio poem can be used to teach young scholars to focus on the characteristics of a person or an animal, anything or anyone really. It requires the student to put themselves in the subject's shoes. Lesson plan...
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write a 5 W Poem
This site describes how a 5W poem is a good way to teach children to identify and focus on the five W's of a story or an event. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
Can Teach
Can Teach: How to Write an "I Am" Poem
This is a template for "I Am" poetry. Pupils will focus on their own characteristics as they create an autobiographical poem.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Shakespeare:couplet
This is a small section of a much larger article on Shakespeare and the Globe Theater that discusses the use of couplets in poetry. Some different types of couplets are discussed (formal or closed, run-on or enjambment, alexandrine,...
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms
This is a glossary of literary and rhetorical terms in alphabetical order by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University. Click the desired link to find the definition.