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This resource is perfect for analyzing poetry and close reading poems! Use it yearround, or to celebrate National Poetry Month!
Remember, poetry doesn’t have to be saved for April. Use this pack to practice close reading poems in your classroom to help grow your students’ love for poetry.
This resource is designed to help teachers engage grades 4-6 students with classic poetry through guiding questions during multiple reads.
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With three questions to guide different purposes for reading each of the twelve poems, you’ll be set to apply a variety of reading skills to poetry. Your students will learn to unpack the meaning of each poem and gain a deeper appreciation for the power of language!
This file includes the digital and printable versions of the poetry activities.
Included in this pack:
Suggestions for use, Annotation Bookmarks, and the following poems found in the public domain with guiding questions (and answer keys) for the first, second, and third read:
In August By William Dean Howells (1902)
Bed In Summer By Robert Louis Stevenson (1913)
*can be paired with a text about the seasons or Daylight Savings Time
The Spider By Jane Taylor (1883)
November By Alice Cary (1873)
Snow-Flakes By Fannie Isabelle Sherrick (1880)
Mr. Nobody By Anonymous
My Shadow By Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
*can be tied with Groundhog Day or a study about light
The Brook By Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1862)
Woodman, Spare That Tree! By George Pope Morris (1830)
A Riddle By Hannah More (1818)
Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker (1926)
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes (1922)
Check out my blog post that shows a step-by-step lesson using a poem from this pack (including a freebie), as well as this SECOND post that includes a BONUS poem!
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Want more information on how to implement close reading in your classroom?
You can check out these other blog posts:
Stop Highlighting…Start Thinking!
Text Dependent Questions With Annotations
Text Dependent Questions, Part 2
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Great Resource
This resource was really useful for teaching poetry to my elementary students. They enjoyed the lessons.
wonderful resource
this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you for making everything so easy to use.
Great Resource
This was great resource to utilize with my 5th graders. Thank you!
Fantastic Resource
I loved using this resource to begin my poetry unit.
Such a great resource! I thought it was worth the purchase!
Such a great resource! I thought it was worth the purchase!
Poetry Review
This was a great ELA review activity to help get my students ready for the Milestones Test.
Great resource
I'm so glad I bought these and did these with my students. We don't always have time for poetry, but this was perfect.
Easy to use and well organized
Easy to use and well organized. So helpful when poetry can be tricky.
Easy to Use
This was so easy to use with my students.
Great Resource
Fantastic resource my fifth graders as we dove into our unit on poetry!
Great resource for annotating poetry
This was the perfect resource for annotating and analyzing poetry.
love this!
We like using this for extra student practice. Students also use this as a homework option. Thank you!
Great Resource
This resource was easy to use and it was very fun and engaging for students.
Students were very engaged
I was looking for a resource with classical poetry. I appreciate the format and content. My students loved reading the poems and responding to the questions. They looked forward to this at the end of the day.
Great Resource!
Thank you so much for this valuable resource! It was so easy to use and was great practice- my kids loved it!
Well developed resource
This is excellent! It met the standards and kept my students engaged. Easy to use and very detailed.
Helpful & Engaging
Great resource to teach poetry and give students practice.
Close Reads
Love the emphasis on repeated reading for a purpose; helps students break down poems
A great poetry comprehension package!
The Poetry Analysis & Comprehension Poems Activities Unit offers engaging, scaffolded activities that break down poetry in accessible ways, supporting comprehension for all learners. Students enjoyed the interactive approach, and I saw noticeable growth in their ability to analyze figurative language and main ideas. It complimented well with our poetry unit!
Very helpful resource
This helps us cover poetry in a more engaging way than our curriculum.
Helpful resource for poetry
I loved using this for poetry analysis. My students were engaged and asking questions throughout.
A Great Resource
This resource is engaging, easy to use, and perfectly tailored to meet the needs of a 6th grade classroom—highly recommend for any school teacher!
Loved this resource! My students found it very helpful.
Great resource and such a time saver. Thank you so much!
This poem comprehension resource is excellent for helping students explore poetry.
These were a lot more fun to use than the poems in our curriculum. I like the activities included as well. My class learned some great vocabulary and some history.
I loved using these in small groups for level poetry assignments.
THis is a great resource for poetry month. The students love the variety.
This is such a great resource. I needed to teach poetry and this was such a comprehensive resource. Thank you!
Great addition to our poetry unit we are working on in class.
My students always struggle with analyzing poetry, and this resource was very helpful in supporting them! Thank you!
I was able to utilize this with students to prepare for a longer close read and analysis of a poem.
I love these! I struggle to teach poetry and these are very clear and easy to teach. I can leave them with a sub easy for them to do as well! Thank you!
A great resource! My students really liked doing this activity.
My students LOVE to do this poetry and get really into analyzing it....even in 5th grade. We connect an Art project with the Art Teacher and make it come alive!
Great resource! My students will benefit from this.
Great poetry practice. Thank you so much for sharing!
I used the packet to extend on our curriculum unit. The students really enjoyed the poems.
I've used these in my small groups. It's been great because I can just print and teach. I love that these have guiding questions for the students to be able to analyze the text they've read. We've had some great discussions too. Great resource!
Great resource to use for poetry. My students partner read and discussed their findings.
This resource helped my students understand poetry. It improved their performance on the poetry section of the state assessment.
This provides a great model. Thaks for your efforts.
My students liked that the poem was on one side and the questions on the other. It made it easier to refer to the poem when answering the questions.
I think poetry isn't studied as often as it should be. These resources help students to analyze and appreciate poetry.
Jivey's resources are always excellent. This packet saved me a lot of time helped me provide good instruction to my students.
This was a fabulous year long resource that was quick and easy to use to learn more about poetry. Whenever I needed a 5-10 minute time filler we would pull one of the lessons out and utilize something about it. Great resource!
This is a great resource! My students enjoyed it and were very engaged.
Great resource for teaching poetry in fifth grade.
My students loved using this resource in the classroom.
This resource was a great addition to my poetry unit. Thank you!
My students used this resource for ELA Bellringer this month. We will be using it more fully in May for our Poetry focus. The resource was a great way to help students understand that reading poetry fluently is different than reading a book fluently. Students used all the CLOSE Reading strategies and shared in small groups. Thank you!
These were very easy to use for our virtual students and complimented our poetry unit well.
This was a good resource to add to what I already had.
We have been using these poems on a monthly basis for fluency practice. They are fun poems that students enjoy reading. They have also sparked a lot of conversation about word choice, language, vocabulary, etc.
