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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alliteration All Around
   Students learn about alliteration, and then practice using alliteration in acrostic poems, tongue twisters, alphabet books, and number books.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animate that Haiku!
   Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
   In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
   What do your students think about each other? Find out as you teach them the concepts of acrostic poems and challenge them to write an uplifting acrostic about a classmate.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
   Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing with Adjectives and Synonyms
   Students thoroughly explore identifying synonyms and adjectives before using them to add variety and interest to their own writing.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Learning about Clouds with Haikus
   Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing
   Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
   Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Poetry from Prose
    Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.

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