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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Tsunami

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
A learning module that begins with the poem "Tsunami" by JonArno Lawson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Technology in Teaching Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Elementary students, while working on their basal reader story for the week, will use various forms of technology to increase comprehension and other reading skills. (Other strategies may be substituted if some of the technology...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Clerihew Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Cooperative poetry writing assignment. Students will write and share poetry using the Clerihew style. Students will also give a group presentation of their poems.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Write a Cinquain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, third grade young scholars will navigate the Internet to learn about cinquains. They will use their new knowledge to create their own cinquains while learning important word processing skills.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Tp Castt

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of poetry to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to texts and videos about writing different types of poetry.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Literature Circle Differention Using Web 2.0 Tools

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to websites for use with literature circles.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry Power

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A learning module with fifteen links to a slideshow, videos, texts, and websites on elements of poetry, figurative language, and different types of poetry.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an introduction to poetry terms, examples, and web links.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry Cinquains

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flip chart explores the elements of Cinquain poetry. Students analyze the structure and create original Cinquains.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry Diamond

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the diamante poem, gives the elements and provides examples.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Quatrains

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will learn what a quatrain is, and how to write one. There are web links and an Activote session.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Storyworks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Practice interpreting different forms of poetry in this flipchart on The Appleton Twins.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Types of Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces a variety of poem types to students. It contains various forms of poetry with example poems.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry Introduction

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces several types of poetry, gives the elements and examples of each type. The types of poetry include color poetry, limericks, free verse, and couplets.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Desert Beneath the Sea Grade 4

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to accompany Scholastic Literacy Place's story Desert Beneath the Sea, and contains an introduction to the genre, vocabulary work, summarizing practice as well as a timeline...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Introduction to Poetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches forms of poetry. It goes over a few key poetry definitions and then gives examples of a haiku and cinquain.
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Website
Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Poesias Para Los Pequenos Y Para Los Mayores

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this website you will find 40 poems for elementary students and 40 poems for middle school age students. At the end of each one there is a quiz to test the comprehension.
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Other

Fun Lesson plans.com: Reading Lesson P Lans: Literature Circles

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Improve your students' reading comprehension with these free literature circle worksheets.