Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Stop Sniffling!" Poetry Theater
In "Stop Sniffling!," learners will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who learns the importance of blowing his nose.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Out of Control" Poetry Theater
In "Out of Control," students will participate in a poem in eleven voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a remote that mysteriously flips through...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "The Bus" Poetry Theater: A Poem in 12 Voices
This activity uses the poem entitled "The Bus" and is adapted by Robert Pottle from the collection entitled I'm Allergic to School, published by Meadowbrook Press. Students will share the responsibility of reading lines of this poem...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Turn Off the Tv!" Poetry Theater
In "Turn Off the TV!," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize watching television with their parents.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "I Call First!" Poetry Theater
In "I Call First!," learners will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Ted Scheu in If Kids Ruled the School, students will dramatize a poem about a student who wants to be the first in everything but learns...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "My New Pet" Poetry Theater
In "My New Pet," students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in Miles of Smiles, students will dramatize a poem about a child tries to make a choice about which pet to buy.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Bad Hair Day" Poetry Theater
In "Bad-Hair Day," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Linda Knaus in If Kids Ruled the School, students will dramatize a poem about how one child's messy hair interrupts the class.
Scholastic
Scholastic: National Poetry Month
A bunch of great poetry resources and lessons! Each lesson lists grade appropriateness. Although this site was created with national poetry month in mind, most of the lessons can be used any time of year.
Read Works
Read Works: Singing Time
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides texts for pre-fluent and fluent readers. This resource is a short poem about joyful mornings.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "When I Was a Baby" Poetry Theater
This site provides poetry theater for emergent young readers. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will engage in "When I Was a Baby": A Poem in Two Voices. Students will read...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Games
Sixteen games containing characters from the show Martha Speaks that introduce new vocabulary through play, presenting words in proper context and providing definitions. Parents and teachers can print a list of the vocabulary words used...
Other
Axelson Academy(you Tube:)asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary
This video provides teachers an example of how to support critical thinking skills in relation to vocabulary development in kindergarten. [2:45]
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Batty Questions
In this lesson, students will be able to recognize and ask questions using standard question words while learning about bats. Included in this lesson are samples of student work, and pictures of the lesson in action.
Education.com
Education.com: sl.k.5 Lesson Plans
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from four quality lesson plans to help students practice the Common Core Standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Other
Medium: Helping Students Ask Better Questions by Creating a Culture of Inquiry
We want to see kids asking tons of questions. This is how students grow into creative, critical thinkers. This article by John Spencer gives multiple ways teachers can foster an environment in which students feel comfortable asking...
Education.com
Education.com: Ask Me How
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, your students will become familiar with using this question word to investigate how things work. At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to ask and answer questions to...
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Trash Stash
Cleverly animated sorting game introduces young learners to the mathematical concepts of comparing, sorting, and grouping. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English language...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Go Away Shadow!
Shadows are all around us. During this lesson, with teacher guidance, students will answer text dependent questions and draw conclusions about the book Bear Shadow.
Starfall
Starfall: Folk Tales
This is an interactive collection of six folk tales. Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Axelson Academy
Axelson Academy: Asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary
In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Fern's Poetry Club
An excellent site for children about the definition, examples, and types of poetry. Students can click nodes such as "What's a Poem?", "Read More Poems," or even "Write a Poem."
Other
Dorling Kindersley: Question Words [Pdf]
This worksheet helps students understand the words we use to ask questions. [PDF]