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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Printout  |  Writing Starter
   Acrostic Poem
   Acrostic poems are fun to write. Your students will find constructing them easy, too, thanks to this helpful tool, which has endless possibilities for curriculum integration.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
   Acrostic Poems
   Learn about and write acrostic poems, a poetry form that uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
   Acrostic Poems
   This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 1
   April is National Poetry Month!
   Students are assigned to be "poets of the day" and are provided several models to create, illustrate, and present their different poems to the class.
8. 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.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 12
   Author Jacqueline Woodson was born today.
   Students read the poem "February 12, 1963" and write a poem to commemorate their own birthday.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 17
    Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
    Books and webpages are gathered that focus on the work of African American poets and students explore the resources and find a poem to contribute to a poetry reading.

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