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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Simple Formual Poem: The Cinquain

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write about a topic of your choice using a CINQUAIN or click on the topic generator if you need help with a topic. A cinquain is a five-line poem that matches either the traditional format or the modern format. Cinquain templates are...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Simple Formula Poems: Diamonte

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Diamantes are poems that form a diamond-shape, and they are often about two opposite ideas. Write to topics of your choosing using a DIAMANTE or if you need help with a topic, click on the topic generator for ideas. Really try to include...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: So Much Depends Upon

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson young scholars will write a descriptive short story based upon 16-word imagery poems they have previously written.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Between Repeated Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan young scholars will write a poem about someone they love after they have brainstormed an original idea.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Start and Stop Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity students will analyze the cyclical patterns within poetry.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Poems of Condition

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson the learners will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How to Make Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Students learn how to write poetry through ten Writing Workshop mini-lessons. Students complete the graphic organizers provided while learning to notice details, write similes and metaphors, and create patterns in their writing.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Keeping the Writing Going

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
A list of seven writing ideas designed to inspire students to continue writing in Writers Workshop even after they have finished working on a specific piece.
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Graphic
abcteach

Abcteach: Peace Poem Form [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lovely printable, ruled form on which students can write a peace poem. Illustrated with a dove carrying an olive branch.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Imagism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Wikipedia site offers a brief description of what imagism was and a listing of the three principles of imagist poetry.
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Haiku Starter

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
A printable, two-page graphic organizer to help students brainstorm ideas and write a rough draft of a haiku. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Composing Cinquain Poems With Basic Parts of Speech

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do you develop a cross curricular activity? Come to this website and watch this lesson unfold into several curricular areas.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Peace Poems and Picasso Doves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan develops "think-aloud strategies" for reading poetry and incorporating symbols of peace in poetry and art. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan explains how analyzing poetry is a many-layered process. This lesson plan introduces the special characteristics of poetry and leads students through a look at how poems are structured and why. Includes links to poems...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Dynamite Diamante Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five lessons that teach about parts of speech, gerunds, and vocabulary by having students write diamante poetry. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poetry From Prose

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson teaches students to create an original poem based on select words and phrases from a prose piece. Also encourages students to model poetic forms after found poems.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for eight lessons in a poetry unit that asks students to write poetry in various forms after reading models. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Abc Books to Enhance Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that are adaptable to many texts that young scholars may be reading. Students analyze the text for literary elements such as characters, setting, figures of speech, and themes, and then publish their...
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Website
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Ballad

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Victoria's English department gives a comprehensive definition of the "ballad" poetic form. Short examples included.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Elegy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Victoria's English department gives a comprehensive definition of the "elegy" poetic form. Example included.