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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
   A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
   In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
3. 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!
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
   Through a study of Langston Hughes' poetry, students connect his writing to his place in history.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I've Got the Literacy Blues
   Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literacy Centers: Getting Started
   This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Poetry Plus! Creating 21st Century Poems with Web Tools
   This lesson encourages students to immerse themselves in poetry as they share their original poems orally and digitally with published poets and peers nationwide.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Summarizing with Haikus
    Using the Haiku Poem App or the Haiku Poem Interactive, students summarize papers they have written using the traditional format of a haiku.

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