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Through the use of dramatic reading and the exploration of Internet resources, sixth- through eighth-grade students build a greater understanding of poetry and the poet's voice. Further, the experience requires students to analyze and develop their own interpretation of a poem's meaning and representation through performance. Extension activities involve students giving an oral poetry performance of their own poetry writing.

Unit 3: Poetry

Great poetry resources

Argument & Persuasive Writing Lesson plans and teaching resources

LANGUAGE ARTS Articles, E-Mail and Web Links about Language Arts

Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions The following resources reflect Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design model of "backwards design". Use the collection of articles, explanations and standards to transform our standards into essential understandings.

Lots and lots of great reading resources

Bring poetry to life in your school! These pages are specially designed to help you and your students to get the most out of the Poetry Archive. There are lesson plans and activities for all key stages and for the inclusive classroom. Poetry can enrich other areas of the curriculum too; there are ideas here for History teachers, and we will be adding material for other subject areas in the coming months. This is a growing, developing resource, so come back and visit regularly to see what's new. Our plans include a forum for teachers to discuss their experiences, as well as a space where you will be able to create your own teaching materials and share them with colleagues.

free, online famous poetry resource providing the famous poems by the World's most popular Poets. Whether your search is for Classic or Modern poetry you will find the famous poems of your choice on the Famous Poetry Online web site. Whether your search is for Famous Love Poems or other famous types of poetry you will find all of the famous verses of your choice on this Online Poetry Website. Famous Love Poetry is the most popular type of verse and suitable for all romantics!

These are just a very few examples of different types of poetry. Most of the definitions have at least one example of each particular type of poetry for better understanding. All examples were provided by the members of Shadow Poetry or previous Egroup. More definitions for related poetry items may be found in the Shadow Poetry Handbook (link located above). As a bonus, we feature poetry forms created by selected poets as new and challenging writing styles. Try not only the traditional forms, but some of the rewarding invented formats as well!

The Video Guide is a resource for both students and teachers to use as they explore the world of video. We hope you'll find these advice sheets, activities, glossaries, and more, useful whether you're just getting started or have already been using a video camera for a while.

Homeschooling debate resource

Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-Traits

"Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs."

This would be great for grades 6 and 7

Great resource for finding and using authentic student writing in the classroom

Painting Freedom: Art from Detention--feature article

Resources for the Writing Workshop

Writing Benchmark 1.2 Developing Ideas

"Lesson Plan Character Clash: A Minilesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue"

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