They can learn more in “ What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks“. After viewing the demonstration, students are invited to experiment with line breaks themselves.

The Line Break Explorer explores the ways that poets choose line breaks in their writing. In this lesson plan, students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance. The Letter Poem Creator provides an online model for the thought process involved in creating poems based upon a letter then, students are invited to experiment with letter poems independently. There is a corresponding Mobile App. Using the Haiku Poem App or the Haiku Poem Interactive, students summarize papers they have written using the traditional format of a haiku in this lesson plan. Students can learn about and write haiku using this interactive tool that guides them through the writing process. In the Diamante Poems tool or Mobile App, users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in this lesson plan in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality. Also available as a Mobile App. In this lesson plan, students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. The Acrostic Poems tool helps students learn about and write acrostic poems, a poetry form that uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. April is National Poetry Month! ! As you’re planning poetry activities during this month (and beyond!) consider using these poetry-focused interactive tools and mobile apps.

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