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This article shares one idea about how bilingual poets can play with language to learn how to communicate ideas and cultural competence.

Creating short and funny Christmas poems from traditional Christmas poems.

Diamond poetry provides a creative language arts writing center activity that uses alternative assessment to test student knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

By heightening the five senses, kids learn to observe their world. This lesson plan contains senses activities that are great fun yet lead to seriously good poetry ideas.

Students learn about shape and concrete poems from poetry books. By writing and illustrating their own poem, students express creativity and learn poetry techniques.

Focus on poetry in spring and celebrate National Poetry Month in April. The beautiful weather can inspire students to write vivid poetry.

Limerick activity to teach students how to create a funny limerick to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

From the Beatles to Blink 182, this simple instructional process can take any popular music track and make it an invaluable instructional tool.

Get ready for National Poetry Month (April) with this senses poetry writing lesson that involves all five senses. It makes for an enjoyable and unusual field trip.

Elementary teachers can teach students to write apple concrete or shape poems during a fall apple theme unit lesson plan.

Color poems are a great example to teach descriptive poetry to primary students.

An activity where students write individual poems as a class activity using adjectives as part of the language component of a unit on the five senses.

Ideas to introduce students to poetry via riddle and humorous poetry. Poetry can be fun and engaging.

Elementary school teachers can teach students how to write a quatrain poem, a haiku, an alphabet or ABC poem, and a concrete poem and display their poetry in class.

Teachers often steer clear of poetry, fearing negative reaction from students. Poetry can be fun, however, if introduced through movement, creative drama and art.

Elementary language arts teachers can teach students to write acrostic, alliteration, cinquain, and diamante poems and have them practice writing poetry in a center.

This is a comprehensive lesson plan for teaching students how to analyze poetry, rhyme, and meter using Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken".

Primary students read Thanksgiving themed kids' books, complete Venn diagrams, make art collages, and write rhyming poems during language arts and social studies lessons.

During your unit on poetry, be sure to take the time to include the Diamante poetry pattern.

Elementary teachers and parents can use the funny poems in "What's The Weather Inside?" by Karma Wilson to teach kids poetry rhyme patterns, homophones and connotation.

Teachers in need of creative ways to improve writing should try this technique known as mimicking or imitation.

Students learn how to create poetry without strict rules. By writing and illustrating a free verse poem, students will create their own original poetry.

Students learn about rhythm and counting syllables from poetry books. By writing and illustrating a poem, students express individuality and learn poetry techniques.

Most students have been writing basic rhyme poems since early elementary school; this lesson allows them to explore rhyme more in-depth by reading and writing poetry.

An overview of the role of poets during the presidential inauguration process and a look at memorable poetry readings from past inaugurations.

April is National Poetry Month, a time to introduce a variety of poems to the classroom. Poetry is a great tool to enhance language skills for all students.

A Vincent Van Gogh quotation teaches students the importance of color in poetic imagery and inspires students to write original poetry in a summer inspired activity.

Many students do not realize that their favorite song lyrics are actually poetry. From these lyrics, students can identify similes, metaphors, etc.