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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing, Reading, and Understanding Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Poetry You've Got Rhythm [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short but informational worksheet for students on the rhythmical sounds of poetry. Includes information about the different types of meter and feet, and allows students to make connections and analysis.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to texts and videos about writing different types of poetry.
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TES Global

Blendspace: 3rd Grade Poetry Investigation

For Students 3rd Standards
A learning module with thirty-one links to texts, videos, images, websites, and slides on different types and forms of poetry as well as poetic imagery, rhyme, figurative language use, and more.
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Josie's Poems

Josie's Poems: "All So Different"

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
A poem about how many different types of animals there are in the world.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A learning module that includes twenty-two links to videos, pictures, weblinks, charts, and activities about different types of poetry including couplet, cinquain, acrostic, diamante, limerick, free verse, lyric, narrative, concrete, and...
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Playground Fun: Storybooks and Poems

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will learn to recognize storybooks and poems and identify their differences with this interactive tutorial.
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BBC

Bbc Schools: Poetry Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This quiz will assess your knowledge of poetry concepts. Links provided allow you to enlarge your quiz to full screen, see the quiz in a different format, read about the different types of poetry, and interpret a poem in the fun,...
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Josie's Poems

Josie's Poems: "Homes"

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
A poem about the different types of things and places animals call home.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Japanese Poetry Haikus, Tankas, and Lanturnes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the differences between Haiku, Tanka, and Lanturne poetry. Students will be able to create their own poems by using the steps given to write each poem. Students will also review...
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Read Works

Read Works: Be a Poet

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different types of poetry. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: American Verse Project

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form with various forms of access provided through the WWW. This site...
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Read Works

Read Works: "Covers"

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Nikki Giovanni about different types of covers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Shakespeare:couplet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Meter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"Meter" in poetry is defined on this webpage. The different types of meter are explained and examples are given.
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Starfall

Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An index of links to six fiction storybooks, eight nonfiction books, and three plays. Each book has pictures and audio that will allow students to click to hear sentences or individual words as they read along. Links to three different...
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Curated OER

Poetic Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
Victorian Web provides information on different types of poetic structure.
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The Boston Book Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Site includes book reviews on a variety of different types of books, from popular, modern, classic, poetry, children's books and more. Also includes interviews and a literary awards page. (2010)

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