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11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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!
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
    Students create poetry collections with the theme of "getting to know each other." They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
    Diamante Poems
    This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
    Diamante Poems
    In this app, users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out.

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