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71. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using the Four-Square Strategy to Define and Identify Poetic Terms
    How do poets play with language? Students will explore some answers to this question as they search through poems for examples of alliteration, assonance, simile, and rhyme.
72. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Varying Views of America
    Students work together to analyze three poems about America with varying points of view.
73. 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.
74. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Wartime Poetry: Working With Similes
    Students analyze a photograph, brainstorm words to describe the characters' senses and feelings, work in pairs to describe a character's experience, and create a poem using their ideas and similes.
    
75. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing The Odyssey with Contemporary Works
    After exploring The Odyssey and a contemporary epic, students choose paired characters from the texts, complete a graphic organizer, and place their characters in hypothetical contemporary situations.
76. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology
    Students read a poem by a Native American, explore Native American culture and then create a Website that explains words and phrases from the poem.
77. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles
    Students explore figurative language in poetry by reading and writing riddle poems.
    
78. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    What is Poetry? Contrasting Poetry and Prose
    Students often find poetry frustrating and meaningless. By helping students think critically about the differences between poetry and prose, this introduction sets the stage for different strategies for comprehending poetic texts.
79. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
    Students will find that learning onset and rime is a handy skill when they read the Jack and Jill rhyme.
80. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
    Whether you sing or recite familiar nursery rhymes in this standard lesson, students will learn how to create and categorize words that have similar endings.

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