NCTE INBOX

March 28, 2006
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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. Creating Classroom Community By Crafting Themed Poetry Collections (E) Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting (E) Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things (E) Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing (E) What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles (M) Alliteration in Headline Poems (M) Found Poems/Parallel Poems (M) Is a Sentence a Poem? (S) Discovering Poetic Form and Structure Using Concrete Poems (S) "Found & Headline Poems," from Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises (M-S-C) "Sestinas and Villanelles from the Inner City" (C) "Writing Across and Against the Curriculum" (C) For more ideas for teaching poetry, see the Poetry Teacher Resource Collection, which includes links to additional articles, lesson plans, and other resources. NOTE: Free access to journal articles mentioned in this Inbox is provided for 21 days. After this free access period expires, articles are available to journal subscribers only. This Inbox Idea was published 03-29-2005. Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary, M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, G=General).