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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
   Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity
   Students use themed graphic organizers to compose cinquain poems on topics common in the early elementary classroom.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
   Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!—Everywhere you turn, you find exciting sounds. Students use these sounds to write their own poems based on Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
   Students read thematically related texts, scaffolded from simple to complex, to help them gather necessary concept vocabulary and background knowledge in a content area. They then write acrostic poems to organize and present their learning in a creative way.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme
   This lesson encourages students to use rhyming words to write rebus poetry modeled on rebus books, which substitute pictures for the words that young students cannot yet identify or decode.