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Dog Care Booklet

For Teachers K
Students complete a dog care booklet. In this language arts instructional activity, students discuss what needs to be done to care for a dog. Students write a dog care booklet and write a story about their pet.
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Water Saving

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Water conservation and management is the focus of this lesson plan. Students identify the need for being "water wise" in society through research and discussion. and present their findings in many different formats (short story, poetry,...
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Valentine's Day

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create a flower, poem, and mailbox for someone to open on Valentine's Day. In this Valentine's Day lesson plan, students also write Valentine letters.
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Beginning Sounds: Poem

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying beginning sounds. In this phonics instructional activity, students review different beginning sounds and read a poem. Students then work together to identify the words in the poem with their particular...
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First Day of GT

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss feelings about being teased about being a gifted student. In this feelings lesson plan, students then toss balls to each other and give responses based on questions asked.
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Father Time

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a memory book and acrostic poem for Father's Day. In this Father's Day lesson, students appreciate unique things their fathers do for them. Students create an original project for their father.
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Litter

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss and research litter and write an anti litter poem. In this litter lesson plan, students also discuss what they can do to stop litter.
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Me, Write a Poem?

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this poems worksheet, learners write a poem where every 2 lines have to rhyme at the end. Students are given 4 prompts to get them started, but only write 1 poem.
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I Am Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this poem worksheet, students fill in the blanks for a poem about themselves. Students fill in the blanks for 18 lines in the poem total.
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I Am Poem

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this poem worksheet, students fill in the blanks to the poem about themselves. Students complete 19 lines to the poem on this worksheet.
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Reader's Workshop - Expression - Day 3

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders come up with motions to put with their poem and read their poem with expression. In this expression lesson plan, 2nd graders work in groups to complete this task.
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Weather

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this weather worksheet, students fill in the blanks to a poem about the seasons and sentences about the feel of the weather. Students complete 10 lines total.
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Handprint Tree

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make a tree. In this art lesson, students wrap a pole with butcher paper, paint handprints and names on the paper, and write a poem on the same paper.
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Reading Fluency Poetry Reading

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders observe video of poem recitations of a person reciting a poem. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders discuss rhythm and rhyme of poetry as well as pauses within poems. Students choose a poem, in a small group, and...
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Birthday Soup

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students recognize their birthday and how it is written. In this lesson, students read a poem about birthdays. Students create a soup bowl that has their birthday month, day and year in it.
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The Name Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students identify animals and their babies. In this animal name instructional activity, students come up with other animals whose babies have the same name. Students use the names of animals and their babies to write poems.
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The Sand Crab

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this rhyming words instructional activity, students read a poem to discover the lines that rhyme. Students identify two lines that rhyme.
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To Be Or Not To Be

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read the poem "To the Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up." They discuss the poem. Students define the term "prejudice." They comapre and contrast the boy in the poster with the author of the poem, Peter Fischl. ...
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Rock Write-In-Roll

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in physical education and classroom activities with their parents and families. To engage parent's in their student's educational process, students and family members spend part of an evening roller skating and the...
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Create a Poem

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars write three simple rhyming poems and read them aloud with rhythm. Students select two adjectives that are opposites and two rhyming verbs to create rhyming lines of the same length with an adjective-noun-verb pattern.
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"Quack Said the Billy-goat"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the poem together, "Quack Said the Billy-goat" and discuss what makes the poem funny and which words rhyme. They observe the teacher writing a new first verse, changing some of the text, but leaving the original rhyme...
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My Inspiration Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students reflect about decision making in their lives and explore their feelings about these life events. They create 100 word narratives and poems with specific details then create Power Point presentations of their project.
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Elementary Spanish: Family

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students explore the Spanish words for family members. They identify family members in Spanish and say the words for where people live. Students explore how say where people are from and they describe a family member in a poem.
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Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze poems by Tennyson and Noyes. They identify examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile. Students create examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile.