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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animate that Haiku!
   Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Learning about Clouds with Haikus
   Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry from Prose
   Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
6. 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.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
   Students learn about the life and music of John Lennon, write a short story from their lives integrating lyrics from some of their favorite songs, and create a class book of stories.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
   Students read thematically related texts, scaffolded from simple to complex, to help them gather necessary concept vocabulary and background knowledge in a content area. They then write acrostic poems to organize and present their learning in a creative way.