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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
   Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
   Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
   What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
5. Classroom Resources | Grade   9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance, and Poetry
   Students research, evaluate, and synthesize information about the Harlem Renaissance from varied resources, create an exhibit, and highlight connections across disciplines (i.e., art, music, and poetry) using a Venn diagram.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Aim for the Heart: Using Haiku to Identify Theme
   Using haiku, students focus on themes in literature and demonstrate their understanding of an author's message. Writing haiku to accompany an analytical paper hones analytical skills and fosters creative expression.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through a Poetry Link
   Studied students stupefy! Students learn about alliteration by listening to an alliterative read-aloud and apply the knowledge they gain to the creation of their own poem and illustration.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alliteration All Around
   Students learn about alliteration, and then practice using alliteration in acrostic poems, tongue twisters, alphabet books, and number books.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Alliteration in Headline Poems
   Students will be introduced to the term alliteration and create a headline poem consisting of 25 words that contain at least three examples of alliteration.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
    Students explore the ballads genre by reading medieval ballads to deduce their characteristics, acting out the ballads, comparing medieval and modern ballads using Venn diagrams, and composing their own ballads.

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