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Read Write Think: Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts
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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Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry
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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Read Write Think: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
Excellent lesson plan that requires young scholars to work collaboratively to select parts of poetry and "perform" poems for the class. Uses the book "Berenstein Bears," but any children's book could be acceptable for the lesson plan.
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Read Write Think: Dynamite Diamante Poetry
Contains plans for five lessons that teach about parts of speech, gerunds, and vocabulary by having young scholars write diamante poetry. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
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Read Write Think: Finding Poetry in Prose Reading and Writing Love Poems
Contains plans for three lessons about love poetry that ask students to review the genre before writing their own. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
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Read Write Think: Writing Free Verse
This online lesson plan allows students to learn about the characteristics of free verse poetry and to model their poems after the activist Cesar Chavez.
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Read Write Think: Poetry From Prose
This instructional activity 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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Read Write Think: Writing Poetry With Rebus and Rhyme
An excellent resource for teachers who are interested in teaching innovative poetry techniques to their elementary students. Uses proven and well-documented methods to teach poetic elements in reading and writing.
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Read Write Think: Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
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...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Writing for Publication
Tenth graders will compose of a piece of processed poetic writing suitable for publication in a class magazine.
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Read Write Think: Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
In this instructional activity, students listen to and discuss poetry that pertains to the study of astronomy and write their own poems to enhance their learning of the subject. As a final project, students use the ReadWriteThink...
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Abcteach: How to Haiku [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] Wonderful printable haiku form that explains how to write one and leaves room for students to write their own.
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Bi Directional Spiraled Poems
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing twist poems. Examples of ideas for these types of poems are provided. Variations of twist poems are listed as a way to provide for...
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Writing Fix: Self Portraits: "I Come From" Poems
In this lesson, When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant Mentor and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox are used as mentor texts to help learners realize what are important in the characters' lives and in their own...
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Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems
For this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Young scholars will brainstorm to collect different...
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Writing Fix: The Di Ku And/or the Tri Ku [Pdf]
Students use a basic haiku structure to create di-ku and tri-ku poems to demonstrate understanding of a topic. Directions and examples of each are provided.
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Writing Fix: Mathematical Recipe Metaphors
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 young scholars and the genre of "how to"...
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Writing Fix: Bird Verb Poems
In this lesson, the mentor text entitled Birds, written by Kevin Henkes, is used. Learners will do the art link included on the site first. Then students will work as a class to record verbs found in the mentor text. Then learners will...
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Read Write Think: All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through Poetry
In this lesson, students will listen to a book, A My Name Is by Alice Lyne, and they will learn about alliteration and alliterative words. After reading the book, students will use print and online resources to brainstorm their own...
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Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...
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Tes: Writing Your Own Poetry
[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: Lord of the Flies by William Golding: Write a Poem
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this assignment, students will write a twelve-line poem using quotations from the first chapter of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Then students will draw a visual representation of the setting...
Colorado State University
Colorado State University: Writing @ Csu Writing Guides
This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....