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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing
   Through Eileen Murphy Buckley’s 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
   
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
   Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate “quiz” questions that their peers will answer.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Add Seasons to Rhyming Poems and Songs
   Choose favorite rhyming songs or nursery rhymes then replace the rhyming words with seasonal themes.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
   What’s that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through a Poetry Link
   Studied students stupefy! Students learn about alliteration by listening to an alliterative read-aloud and apply the knowledge they gain to the creation of their own poem and illustration.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alliteration All Around
   Students learn about alliteration, and then practice using alliteration in acrostic poems, tongue twisters, alphabet books, and number books.
10. 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.

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