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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 5
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
   This unit introduces students to a variety of poetic forms and elements, as they compile their own collections of poetry.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
   Students create poetry collections with the theme of "getting to know each other." They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
   Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 14
   Ernest Thayer, author of the famous poem "Casey at the Bat," was born in 1863.
   In small groups or individually, students make baseball cards for the players in the poem "Casey at the Bat." Students can use a word processor or the Character Trading Cards interactive to create their cards.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Follow the Word Trail: Organize a Treasure Hunt
   Create a treasure hunt out of word-puzzle clues hidden around the home or yard.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 3
   Gwendolyn Brooks published Bronzeville Boys and Girls in 1956.
   After students have read and discussed several poems from Brooks' collection, they create a poetry anthology for their own family, neighborhood, or classroom.
10. 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.

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