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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
   Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
   Acrostic Poems
   This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 1
   April is National Poetry Month!
   Students are assigned to be "poets of the day" and are provided several models to create, illustrate, and present their different poems to the class.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
   Diamante Poems
   This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
5. 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?
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 12
   Gary Soto, poet and children's writer, was born on this date in 1952.
   Using one of Soto's stories, students take part in share stories about their families, describe their street/neighborhood, or compose an acrostic poem using the Acrostic Poems interactive tool.
7. Classroom Resources | Grade   K  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose
   Watch Mother Goose work her magic! This lesson uses nursery rhymes to help emergent readers remember the letters and their sounds and identify word chunks.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
   Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literacy Centers: Getting Started
   This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
    Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes’s book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.

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