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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
   Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
   Students explore the ballads genre by reading medieval ballads to deduce their characteristics, acting out the ballads, comparing medieval and modern ballads using Venn diagrams, and composing their own ballads.
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   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 19
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Celebrating Poetry for Teens
   In honor of National Poetry Month in April, tune in for recommendations of a variety of poetry books for teens.
6. 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.
7. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Cold Plums and the Old Men in the Water: Let Children Read and Write "Great" Poetry
   The author of this article advocates using "great" poetry with children, and providing the link between the reading and writing of poetry.
8. 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.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
   This unit introduces students to a variety of poetic forms and elements, as they compile their own collections of poetry.
10. Professional Development | Grades   2 – 7  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Creating Lifelong Readers Through Independent Reading
    This book provides information on the benefits of independent reading, how to set up a classroom library, and ways to actively engage students in independent reading.

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