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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
   What do your students think about each other? Find out as you teach them the concepts of acrostic poems and challenge them to write an uplifting acrostic about a classmate.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Discovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem "Mnemonic" and the Brain
   Students learn about memory by doing a memory-writing exercise, studying the brain to understand how it affects memory, reading Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic," and creating projects to demonstrate their understanding.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
   Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!—Everywhere you turn, you find exciting sounds. Students use these sounds to write their own poems based on Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   8 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Latino Poetry Blog: Blogging as a Forum for Open Discussion
   In this lesson, students use blogs to hold discussions about the effect of the factors of culture, history, and environment on Latino poetry.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
   Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing
   Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sonic Patterns: Exploring Poetic Techniques Through Close Reading
   Students develop close reading skills connecting sound with sense in the poem "Those Winter Sundays," and write an original text that reflects their new learning.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Sort, Hunt, Write: A Weekly Spelling Program
   It's easy to make spelling fun. Using a variety of activities from sorting to using words in context will help deepen students' understanding of word patterns.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Speaking Poetry: Exploring Sonic Patterns Through Performance
    Using their voices as interpretive instruments, students gain a deeper appreciation of the art of poetry as they prepare a recitation of the frequently anthologized poem "Those Winter Sundays."

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