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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Rain Drop Shape Poem

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan uses the mentor text by Wendy Cheyette Lewison entitled Raindrop, Plop! This lesson, which has a focus on word choice, engages students in brainstorming descriptive words and phrases about raindrops. At the end of the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur Mentor, Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli, and Henry & The Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall are used as mentor texts. Students will practice their acrostic skills on the tail...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Prose Poetry Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Learners will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
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Other

Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Poem for Two Voices [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students write in contrasting voices to create a descriptive poem.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: A Chilly Feeling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this close reading lesson, the students will analyze the poem "It Fell in the City" by Eve Merriam. They will read the poem, identify words or phrases that show feelings or appeal to the senses,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Epithet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Epithet" including definitions and examples from a number of poets.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: So Much Depends Upon

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson learners will write a descriptive short story based upon 16-word imagery poems they have previously written.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...
Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Start & Stop Game: Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find an adjective that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Verbs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a verb that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start &...