Description
Poem of the Week Poetry Analysis Unit Reading Comprehension: Are you searching for engaging, easy-to-use ways to teach poetry in your classroom? This packet is designed specifically for upper elementary students and provides a consistent, meaningful way to explore poetry all year long.
Whether you’re prepping for ELA Poetry Reading Test Prep or simply building strong literary analysis skills, this complete unit helps your students dive deeper into poetry while becoming more confident and fluent readers.
With 20+ poems—10 original and 12 traditional from classic poets—this unit gives students exposure to various styles, authors, and poetic techniques. Students will strengthen their understanding of theme, tone, imagery, figurative language, and more with thoughtfully designed activities that are easy to implement.
POEM OF THE WEEK PACKET INCLUDES:
- Print and digital format available (see page 3 for link)
- Teacher notes and tips
- Clickable Table of Contents, and list of poems
- Poetry terms anchor charts for class décor or for student notebooks- color and bw options
- Focus poetry letter pennants
- Four activities to use with any poem.
- Poetry mini flip booklet to use on any poem of the week
20 POEMS & ACTIVITIES:
- 10 Original Written Poems and 10 Traditional Poems by Classic Poets. This is a wonderful way to expose students to different styles of poetry writing.
- The selection of Traditional Poems from Classical Poets are hand selected and curated from the public domain and reflect the poetry currently available. Poets include: Robert Louis Stevenson, Sarah Coleridge, Elizabeth B. Browning, Emily Dickinson, William C. Bennett, William Allingham and more.
SKILLS FOCUSED ON:
- Identifying theme and message
- Practicing visualization and imagery
- Exploring figurative language and poetic devices
- Strengthening comprehension and analytical thinking
- Developing oral reading fluency
Each poem is provided in a large-format layout ideal for group display or individual close reading. Analysis questions and reflection prompts accompany every poem, and answer keys are included for easy assessment.
POEM OF THE WEEK IS PERFECT FOR:
- mentor texts with focus on poetry
- literacy small groups
- focus poetry skill learning
- test preparation material
- homework
- poem writing practice
- extensions for GT, or accelerated learners
- substitute activities
- and much more!
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Jessica W. –
This resource was super helpful to use with my writing replacement students.
Sarah R. –
Having these passages at the ready made this unit stress free for me!
Charlley P. –
Great resource! I will continue to use this resource in my class for years to come!!
Jenny Z. –
I finished my year with this resource. It was a great find! I would definitely use again.
Tita A. –
My students master so many facts about poems by using this resource as morning work.
Jack and Dot –
Thank you for creating an excellent, detailed, and easy to use resource!
Youngster Learning –
My students loved the engaging lessons. Thanks for giving your materials so much thought.
The Reading Leaders –
This is a great resource to use as supplemental material for poetry unit in class. I used this to extend the poetry unit that we did in reading class and it had fun engaging activies to use.
Adrienne K. –
My students loved working with this resource this year.
Michelle Coronado –
Very engaging and useful resource for teaching poetry. Love it!!!
Erica T. –
My students enjoyed this resource. Thank you for making it so easy to use. Poetry is such a struggle, and I am glad to have a resource that breaks it down for the students.
pimeks P. –
This resource is great. My students were engaged and it was really easy to implement.
Elizabeth Clark –
Broke down the concepts enough for my kids to understand.
Groovy Ed –
What a great resource! I loved how I was able to use this with my students with different levels of needs.
Maggie M. –
Great resource. My students enjoyed and I appreciate the work being done.
Jaclyn K. –
This has a lot of resources and can easily be adapted to your needs. I also appreciate that it includes both traditional and more current poetry.
Antoinette G. –
I have searched for a resource to help students analyze the content of poems and this is it! Great find.
Caffeinated Class –
I used this resources as a piece of a poetry unit we did in the spring. The poems are fun and engaging, it is well laid out, and I liked the consistency of the questions asked.
Amber I. –
This is a great resource to teach poetry with. I like that this resource has a variety of activities included.
Jennifer West –
Excellent resource that I can continue to use in my class.