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To assess students’ use of poetry for reading or writing, you first need to think about your instructional goals. In reading, you might be using poetry to encourage response, to develop fluency, or to foster understanding of phonograms or word families. Fluency might be a goal for writing as well.
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You can teach basic skills in your tutoring sessions using poetry. For example, you can create a teaching opportunity by using word pattern exercises based on the rhyming sounds of the poem.
Poetry Lesson Plans. The following lesson plans are adapted from school and community workshops led by RCAH Center for Poetry staff. Multiple online resources, and the creative ideas of Center for Poetry staff and visiting writers, contributed to the development of these plans.
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Where We Began: Massive Open Online Courses. Led by Harvard Professor Elisa New, this free, not-for-credit online Poetry in America series offered through HarvardX surveys nearly 400 years of American poetry.
Teaching Poetry High School CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES The following classroom strategies engage students in reading, writing, and talking about poetry: Themes Tracker Ask students to keep a “themes tracker” for patterns and topics they uncover as they read poetry, including issues of social justice. As students read and begin noticing a
For teachers who want to engage their students with the art of poetry, here are activities, reading guides, and articles about reading, writing, and teaching poetry. If you want to keep up to date with our educational content and programming, sign up for our Educator Newsletter .
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This exploration is presented as a foundation for developing an alternate pedagogical framework for effective poetry teaching in the context of literacy programs and practices in schools, and the traditions of literature teaching.
