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51. Professional Development | Grades   1 – 3  |  Strategy Guide
    Depend on the Text! How to Create Text-Dependent Questions
    Teachers need to create text-dependent questions to elicit close reading. When answering these questions, students learn to reread and think deeply about the text.
52. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Developing Aesthetic Criteria: Using Music to Move Beyond Like/Dislike with Poetry
    In this lesson, students develop the cognitive tool of criteria development for discussing the aesthetics of poetry and music.
53. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Writing Starter
    Diamante Poem
    This tool will allow your students to create a diamante poem by reflecting on their knowledge of a topic and by using nouns, verbs, and adjectives in a creative manner.
    
54. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Game & Tool
    Diamante Poems
    Diamante poems are poems where the longest line comes in the middle, creating a diamond-like shape. The Diamante Poems tool helps children write these patterned poems.
55. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
    Diamante Poems
    In this app, users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante poems can be viewed online or printed out.
56. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
    Diamante Poems
    This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
57. 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.
58. 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.
59. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
    Students read sonnets, charting the poems' characteristics and using their observations to deduce traditional sonnet forms. They then write original sonnets, using a poem they have analyzed as a model.
60. 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?

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