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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Alliteration in Headline Poems
   Students will be introduced to the term alliteration and create a headline poem consisting of 25 words that contain at least three examples of alliteration.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity
   Students use themed graphic organizers to compose cinquain poems on topics common in the early elementary classroom.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
   What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   How Big Are Martin's Big Words? Thinking Big about the Future
   Inspired by the book Martin's Big Words, students explore information on Dr. King to think about his "big" words, then they write about their own "big" words and dreams.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Is a Sentence a Poem?
   Students use their own poetry to analyze syntax, imagery, and meaning in a one-sentence poem by a canonical author to decide what makes it a poem.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Minilesson
   Clang, clash, or tinkle? Students explore the use of onomatopoeia in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" before choosing their own sound words in response to specific sounds.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Poetry Plus! Creating 21st Century Poems with Web Tools
   This lesson encourages students to immerse themselves in poetry as they share their original poems orally and digitally with published poets and peers nationwide.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   The ABCs of Poetry
   Students examine a letter of the alphabet from all angles, creating image pools of original metaphors that they then turn into poems.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks
    Students read various poems and explore why lines are broken where they are and how they affect rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance in poetry.

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