Other+poetry+lessons

Collect strong words in poems, write them on index cards, and illustrate them. Hang around the room.

Collect strong lines from poems, and write them on sentence strips. Students can use them later to weave into their own poems.

Poetry auto-biography: search for a poem that is about you. Copy it, illustrate it, and write an explanation of why this one is about you.

Poetry as public art: walk about the school and look for places where we could hang poems. Students go back to class and spend time looking for poems to hang in different places. Copy them, write a blurb about them, hang them.