teaching resource

Exploring Figurative Language in Poetry Workbook

Updated: 18 May 2023

Teach your upper elementary and middle school students to read, analyze, and discuss poetry with a printable and digital poetry workbook.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Grades: 4 - 7

Curriculum

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.B

Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.B

Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

teaching resource

Exploring Figurative Language in Poetry Workbook

Updated: 18 May 2023

Teach your upper elementary and middle school students to read, analyze, and discuss poetry with a printable and digital poetry workbook.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Grades: 4 - 7

Teach your upper elementary and middle school students to read, analyze, and discuss poetry with a printable and digital poetry workbook.

Elementary Poetry Analysis Made Easy!

We’ve taken the stress out of teaching poetry with our Poetry Unit Workbook!

Teaching poetry in middle and high school is tough—and it’s ten times harder in elementary school. The texts are too hard, the poems are too boring, or the students don’t have the background knowledge to relate to the reading. Then, toss in figurative language, and you’ve got a mess!

Kid-Friendly Poems with Figurative Language

That’s why we’ve planned your entire poetry unit and packaged it into an easy-to-use workbook format that allows you to teach 9 different poems with kid-friendly vocabulary and topics, all with figurative language worksheets and poetry analysis activities included for each poem.

Poems and figurative language worksheets included in this download are titled:

Daycare – Summarizing Context, Determining Audience, Author’s Purpose Worksheet
Night – Summarizing Context, Determining Audience, Author’s Purpose Worksheet
My House – Summarizing Context, Determining Audience, Author’s Purpose Worksheet
The Falling Leaves – Alliteration Worksheet
Onomatopoeia Poems – Exploring Onomatopoeia Worksheet
A Family of Dinosaurs – Exploring Wordplay, Neologisms, and Colloquial Language Worksheet
Tiger – Imagery Worksheet
Tilly the Tiger – Narrative Elements of Poetry Worksheet

Print and Digital Poems for 5th Graders and Up!

And if that weren’t enough, we’ve made our workbook available in PDF and Google Slides Digital formats so you can use it on any device or platform you need! Answers for teachers are also provided.

This resource is perfect for getting in all those standards during National Poetry Month!

Curriculum

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.B

Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.B

Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

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