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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Alissa Collier –
This resource was perfect for our poetry unit last year. When I knew our poetry unit was coming up again, I instantly came back to this one. Thank you!
Nicole Manley –
Fantastic – very helpful when I was out. Students were still able to review this and stay engaged.
Heather R. –
Great resource! Poetry is always difficult to teach, and I love how this resource provides so much additional practice.
Ashley K –
My students are enjoying using this resources to learn more about poetry as apart of their poetry writing unit. It gives them idea of stanzas, rhymes, etc. Great resource!
Colleen J. –
My students were engaged in the activity and was easy to get the activity prepared.
Ashley M. –
Great resource. I have been using this in my stations to keep poetry in front of my students! Thank you!
Mama Bear University –
I used this poetry analysis unit to help tutor a child during the pandemic. It was really helpful to have multiple poems to pull from to practice analyzing poems.
Kathryn B. –
Great and useful resource! My students and I loved this!
Dyslexia Experts –
Poetry is not my favorite subject to teach, so it was wonderful to find such a good resource!
Casey Dailey –
My students really loved this resource. It seemed to present the concepts in a way the students could access. I would recommend this to everyone!
Erin K. –
Love, love, love this resource! It has everything I needed to make my poetry unit shine. Thank you!
A Year of Learning –
Great product and engaged students. Poetry is hard for students and this makes it easy. Thank you!
Bethany C. –
Great resource to use for my students who have been identified with an LD in reading/reading comprehension. Great resource!
Susan M. –
Nice resource. This is a comprehension and well planned resource.
Pam E. –
This was a MUST for my poetry unit. Thank you for helping my kiddos stay engaged.
Anna C. –
I love having this as an introduction to poetry. This is has everything I needed to introduce poems and poetry elements. The poems are relatable to the students and are a fun way to practice fluency and expression.
Lori K. –
My Students enjoyed the prompts and the varied poetry types,
Alexis Atwater –
My students really enjoyed this and I love how organized it is!
Learning with Lindner –
This unit is very easy to use and comprehensive. The poems were accessible and interesting to my students. I would have liked some of the questions to be poem specific (ex. what kind of figurative language is “skinny as a pole”). All of the questions are identical for each poem.
Carrie M. –
This is a great resource! Myself and my students benefited from it!