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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dynamite Diamante Poetry
   Introduce gerunds and review nouns, adjectives, and verbs through engaging read-alouds; then apply these concepts through collaborative word-sorting and poetry-writing activities.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
   Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Polishing Preposition Skills through Poetry and Publication
   Students deepen and refine their understanding of prepositions by reading Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask. They write preposition poetry and create a study guide using an online tool.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Slipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems
   Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
   What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
    Students first analyze Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," then use Whitman's poem as a model as they create their own list poems.

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