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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through a Poetry Link
   Studied students stupefy! Students learn about alliteration by listening to an alliterative read-aloud and apply the knowledge they gain to the creation of their own poem and illustration.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
   Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery to describe a color.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
   Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.
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   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.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
    After listening to haiku poetry, students use seasonal descriptive words to write their own haiku, following the traditional format. They then publish their poems by mounting them on illustrated backgrounds.

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