Curated OER
Follow Spring's Journey North Recording Highlights of the Season
Students scan headlines on the Journey North News Updates each day to track the changes that spring brings as it comes to different areas of the United States.
Curated OER
Dream Houses
Learners explore different types of homes and how the environment effects the types of houses people construct. In this houses lesson plan, students learn about environmental factors and cultural factors that play in to why people build...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Literary Graffiti With Poetry
In this lesson, student groups read and analyze a poem and then use graphic software to draw pictures that illustrate the poem.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Twelve Times One: Illustrations of Child Life by Mary Lathbury
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Twelve Times One: Illustrations of Child Life by Mary A. Lathbury (1888), a book of poetry with illustrations designed with water colors.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Bird Watch: A Book of Poetry
This site is on the book "Bird Watch" by Jane Yolen. It includes a review of the book, a listing of things to notice and talk about, activities related to the book, other related books, and links to other resources.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Poetry of Maya Angelou
This primary source set includes photographs, illustrations, correspondence, interviews, and a sound recording that provides context for thematic elements in the poetry of Maya Angelou as well as her life.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters: Paul Revere [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, learners explore the life of Paul Revere through the lens of a painting of the Midnight Run. Using the painting as a springboard, students write and enact a poem illustrating the event.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Illustrating Imagery in Poetry
Students will select a favorite poem from a class poetry unit, from Poem Finder, included in the Alabama Virtual Library, or from other online sources or poetry collections in the school library, and create a collage or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am Poems
Students will write and illustrate I Am poems. An I Am poem is an 18-line, three-stanza poem which students write about themselves, or a real or fictitious character. When all students have presented their poems to their classmates, the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Craft of Poetry: Structure of the Sonnet
Using a sonnnet grid, students write original Shakespearean sonnets and present them in digital slideshow format.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: Sing Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
This site, produced by "A Celebration of Women" from the University of Pennsylvania, provides the full text of Christina Rossetti's Nursery Rhyme Book with 120 illustrations.
EL Education
El Education: A Is for a Bomb
A is for 4 A-Bomb was written and illustrated by a sophomore student at West Platte High School. The student created this project as part of a world history investigation on the atomic bomb. After researching the impact of the bombs and...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: You Too Can Haiku
Here's a creative lesson for students to examine various haikus, and Japanese culture, then write their own haiku poem, and illustrate it using watercolors! Provides plenty of links to more information, a thorough explanation of the...
EL Education
El Education: Trees Are Trees
An online book entitled Trees are Trees: A Collection of Poems and Letters by kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri. The book contains original poems and illustrations about nature which provide exemplary...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Babes of the Year by Edith M. Thomas
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's picture book Babes of the Year by Edith M. Thomas. It features color illustrations of little girls and a poem for each month of the year.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Class Portrait: An Anthology in Words and Pictures
Lesson plan where students each write an autobiographical poem and illustrate it by taking pictures with a digital camera. Students' work is then complied into an anthology. (Note: Lesson procedure includes reading a book that is not...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Ransom Center: Edgar Allan Poe
Investigate Edgar Allan Poe's life and work in this multimedia site that goes beyond Poe's writing and looks at how others have responded to his work. Listen to readings of some of Poe's best-known poems and try your hand at imitating or...
Other
Portalde Poesia: Poesia Illustrada
This site has a collection of many Spanish poems with some illustrations.
Other
Mic Top: Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 1824)
This site has brief biographical information about Lord George Gordon Noel Byron, with a handful of illustrations of the poet.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Paul Revere in Action [Pdf]
For this lesson, students explore the life of Paul Revere through the lens of a painting of the Midnight Run. After viewing it, students write and enact a poem illustrating the event.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Race Problem, Making of African American Identity: V. 2
A poem, an address, and a painting that illustrate black political struggle in late-nineteenth-century America. This series of resources characterize "the Negro Problem" as "a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Plath, Personification, and Figurative Language
This project based activity will use Sylvia Plath's poem, "Mirror", to examine the use of personification and figurative language. The activity may also incorporate the use of technology to produce a multimedia project. This allows...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Sparkles for Bright Eyes by Thomas W. Handford, Ed.
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sparkles for Bright Eyes by Thomas W. Handford, Ed. (1888), a book of stories and poems with illustrations.