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Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write an "I Am" Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a template for "I Am" poetry. Young scholars will focus on their own characteristics as they create an autobiographical poem.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write a Diamond Poem

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This is a good poem format to help teach adjectives, verbs, and nouns. Lesson plan indicated for 2nd grade and above.
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write a Name Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site describes how a Name Poem is a good way to teach children to focus the influence that people (friends and family) around them have. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write a Cinquain

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
At the most basic level a cinquain is a five line poem or stanza. Here are two variations. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Seasonal Haiku

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
This site is a three-part lesson that teaches students how to write and depict seasonal imagery through haiku. Students study, listen to, and create original haiku on colored backgrounds.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Start & Stop Game: Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find an adjective that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Phrases

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a prepositional phrase that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good phrase can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Clauses

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a subordinate clause that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good clause can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Verbs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a verb that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start &...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Memoirs About Photographs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This review discusses Looking Back, a memoir written by Lois Lowry. The song "Photograph", performed by Nickelback, and "In Color" by Jamey Johnson, are suggested as sources to assist with extending the students' understanding of memoir....
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abcteach

Abcteach: Similes [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
This printable learning exercise tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, students use the ocean and their five senses as inspirations to create their own unique haikus. Lesson provides assessment criteria and a list of sources.