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Experimenting with Poetry Writing
Start planning your National Poetry Month celebration with the following lesson plans and classroom-ready resources, all of which invite students to write their own poetry.

• Color Poems-Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting (E)
• Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing (E)
• What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles (M)
• Found Poems/Parallel Poems (M)
• A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future (S); Connect to March Madness!
• Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing" (S)
• "Sestinas and Villanelles from the Inner City" (C)
• "Writing Across and Against the Curriculum" (C)
• "Making Mistakes, Creating Metaphors" (TE)
• "Re-Form-ing Reflection (and Action) in English Education" (TE)

For more ideas for teaching poetry, see the Poetry Teacher Resource Collection.

Click here for the State of Michigan Genre Chart

Click here for Genre of Literature Posters

To access the Comprehension Strategies Posters from Strategies that Work, click on the Curriculum story (also listed in the left-hand column).

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