This poetry unit for first and second grade gets students writing both form and free-verse poems as they let their creativity fly!

My students love to write poetry as a break from our traditional writing units. They really buy into the “no rules” aspect of free-verse poetry and when I show them different examples of poetry, they tend to take off and make many different writing pieces. I hope you and your students have as much fun as we do with this one!

In this unit:

• Teacher Examples for each type of poem
• Free verse & Form poems with graphic organizers to plan
• Sensory poems: 8 different poetry prompts with planning pages, blank templates.
• Feelings poems: 9 different poetry prompts with planning pages.
• Acrostic poems
• Cinquain poems
• Shape poems
• Color poems
• Haiku poems
• Poetry topic cards
• Poetry book covers

Enjoy!

Susan Jones