Instructional Video2:54
Curated Video

Free Verse Poetry

K - 8th
Free Verse Poetry reviews the elements of a free verse poem and composes one of at least five lines about a famous person in history.
Instructional Video17:44
Wonderscape

Literature Kids: Exploring Poetic Devices

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher discusses the fundamental poetic devices of alliteration, assonance, and consonance. They explain how these devices create rhythm and rhyme in poetry and provide examples from famous poets such as Walt Whitman...
Instructional Video5:20
Advocate of Wordz

Blank & Free Verse - Poetry Defined

9th - 12th
Blank and Free Verse are sometimes confused as being interchangeable, but they aren't! Also, we sometimes believe we're writing in Free Verse, but we're actually denying ourselves credit we deserve.
Instructional Video5:20
TED-Ed

What Makes a Poem … a Poem?

8th - 12th Standards
What makes a poem a poem? The narrator of a short video wades into the debate with the contention that the three characteristics that poems share are musical qualities, condensed language, and intense feelings.