Alliteration in Headline Poems
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Students are introduced to the term "alliteration" and asked to create their own examples of alliteration as well as find examples of alliteration in poems. The culminating activity asks each student to create a headline poem using words that they have cut out from magazines and/or newspapers.

Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni’s “Nikki-Rosa”
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Adapted from Carol Jago’s Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom, this lesson invites students to explore what Jago calls the place “where life and art intersect” by completing a close reading of Giovanni’s poem and then writing about childhood memories of their own.

Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
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In this lesson, students learn about cinquain and write simple cinquain of their own, while learning about the basic parts of speech.

Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity
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In this lesson, students write simple cinquain of their own as a follow-up to a subject they have been exploring in class.

Creating Classroom Community By Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
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In this lesson, students create poetry collections with a back-to-school theme of “getting to know each other.” Students write poetry with the goal of introducing themselves, helping to create a sense of classroom community, while exploring the many and varied types and forms of poetry and constructing and refining their own definitions of poetry.

Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems
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This lesson uses concrete poems, which relate the placement of the words on the page to the meaning of the poem, to explore the connection between a poem's layout and its meaning.

Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=258
Encourage your students to explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech by paying attention to the details of King's speech as they read and as they gather words to use in their own original poems.

Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
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Through the literature of Ruth Heller, students have the opportunity to play with language, particularly prepositions. By moving around prepositions on the Word Mover Student Interactive, students create a poem that will make this grammar lesson more meaningful.

Poetry from Prose
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Students and teacher pick a descriptive passage from a piece of prose and select words and phrases from the prose to create a found poem. They may then use found poems for models of parallel poems.

Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
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In this lesson plan, students use seasonal descriptive words to write their own haiku following the traditional syllable and line format. They then publish their poems by either mounting them on illustrated backgrounds that support the images depicted in the poems or completing the leaf interactive.

What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=169
Riddle poems, which rely upon creative use of metaphor, simile, and metonymy; concrete imagery; and imaginative presentation and description of an object or concept, are an excellent vehicle for introducing students to poetry and poetry writing. 

What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks
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In this lesson, students explore various poems and why the lines are broken where they are. Then they experiment with varied line breaks and how they affect rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.

Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=273
This lesson encourages young students to use their developing knowledge of rhyming words to write rebus poetry modeled on rebus books, which substitute pictures for the harder words that young students cannot yet identify or decode.