This standards-based book provides lessons and activities to help your students master poetry writing skills with enthusiasm and effectiveness. This book will help your students improve skills in areas such as: rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, attention to syllables, using color, metaphors, onomatopoeia, and thinking about line breaks and white space. Includes lessons on writing limericks, tongue twisters, haiku, concrete poem, diamante, cinquain, and more. Reproducible. 144 pages.