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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Aim for the Heart: Using Haiku to Identify Theme
   Using haiku, students focus on themes in literature and demonstrate their understanding of an author's message. Writing haiku to accompany an analytical paper hones analytical skills and fosters creative expression.
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   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki-Rosa"
   Students explore what Carol Jago calls the place "where life and art intersect" by reading Nikki Giovanni's poem, "Nikki-Rosa," and then writing about childhood memories of their own.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora's Poem "Echoes"
   Pat Mora's poem "Echoes" demonstrates that our senses are powerful tools for literary analysis and comprehension as students use their senses to discover new ways to read and write.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
   What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cut up, Cover up, and Come Away with Ideas for Writing!
   Students rework their forgotten/abandoned drafts by cutting and covering up selected words. By creatively manipulating text, they explore portal writing, a strategy for envisioning a new story or story direction.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Experiencing Haiku Through Mindfulness, Movement & Music
   By being present and mindful on nature walks, students write haiku using vivid sensory language; and explore body movement, music and art as visual and kinesthetic representations of their poetry.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry
   Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Found Poems/Parallel Poems
   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   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.

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