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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Poems of Apology

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will write an original poem for forgiveness after reading the poem "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams and poems from the book "This is Just to Say" by Joyce Sidman.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Between Repeated Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson students will write a poem about someone they love after they have brainstormed an original idea.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Start and Stop Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson young scholars will analyze the cyclical patterns within poetry.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Just Because Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To be taught in concordance with The Lord of the Flies, this lesson teaches students how to give a voice to some of those not being heard on the island.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Come Hither, Stay Away

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, young scholars will analyze Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Have a Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A great cross-curricular activity, learners will create a diamante poem based on their feelings regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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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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Unit Plan
The English Teacher

The English Teacher: Teaching Basic Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan-tutorial uses "Beware do not read this poem" by Ismael Reed to teach students how to read and appreciate poetry.
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Other

Rmc Denver: Reflections on Poetry Readings

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site features a lesson plan for how middle school students can learn to reflect on poetry readings. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative resource.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Web Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The important thing about this lesson plan is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide students...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a poetry lesson plan that asks students to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and...
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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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PBS

Pbs: Interactive Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What is interactive poetry? Use this website to learn more about this form of poetry.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Poem for Two Voices [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students write in contrasting voices to create a descriptive poem.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Mathematical Recipe Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Barry Lane's books entitled Reviser's Toolbox and 51 Wacky We-Search Reports are used as mentor texts. Used as a refeference, the concept of recipe poems can be instructed to the students and the genre of "how to" books,...
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eBook
Other

Alphabet Recognition Poems: Mrs. Alphabet

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Alphabet Recognition Poems: Mrs. Alphabet
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Activity
TES Global

Tes: Writing Your Own Poetry

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can write a poem that incorporates personification and similes with the help of this template.
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TES Global

Tes: Prose. Toad Rage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource features related activities connected to Morris Geitzman's book, Toad Rage. Students will read a fable, nonfiction reading, prose reading, and connected writing activities.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Poetry: A Writing With Writers Activity

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Interactive poetry lessons with well-known authors for three age groups including first through fourth grades with Jack Prelutsky, second through fifth grades with Jean Marzollo, and fourth through eighth grade with Karla Kuskin.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Poetry: A Writing With Writers Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Interactive poetry lessons with well-known authors for three age groups including first through fourth grades with Jack Prelutsky, second through fifth grades with Jean Marzollo, and fourth through eighth grade with Karla Kuskin.
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Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: How to Write a Poem

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how to write a poem when you use this site. This site offers insight into how to write a simple form of a poem through interactive activities.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.