With the ongoing struggle of incorporating the career and college readiness standards into lessons, this resource is perfect for integrating todays standards in a fun and engaging way. The interesting and factual poems focus on the 50 states, United States history, and ancient civilizations combined with the engaging strategies are sure to heighten student engagement. Using poetry with students has many strong benefits, which include building word skills, improving fluency, and increasing comprehension. Each strategy includes a template lesson plan with an overview of the strategys benefits and procedures, a template student page, a sample lesson plan for a poem, a sample poem, and sample student page(s).