Curated OER
Acting Out Conflict
Learners practice solving given conflicts. They act out different scenerios and decide on the best one. They discuss questions to end the lesson.
Curated OER
Team Teaching - Spanish
Students present a Spanish grammar topic to the class. In pairs, they select and research a grammar concept, create an over-head transparency, homework assignment, and a quiz to use with the presentation, and teach their concept to the...
Curated OER
Election Vocabulary Brainstorm
Students participate in numerous activities pertaining to elections. They study election vocabulary and generate questions about campaigns and elections. They paraphrase articles and generate a class vocabulary list.
Curated OER
What is Child Labor?
Students examine the topic of child labor in history. They discuss jobs that children their age would have done before child labor laws. They decide on an action to take on Labor Day to share what they have learned with others.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Periodic Table of Poetic Elements
Each student will create a poem about an element on the periodic table. The poems will be placed in the appropriate "square" to create a large periodic table wall hanging. This project will require the collaborative work of several...
Teaching Channel
Teaching Channel: Exploring Poetic Elements
This is a teacher demonstrating and discussing teaching students poetic elements: learning the literary terms, their definitions, and how to apply the information when analyzing poetry.
Other
Fu Jen Univ.: Poetic Elements: Denotation and Connotation: Figures of Speech
This site gives short definitions of the terms denotation and connotation. Also gives definitions for many figures of speech. Finally, includes discussion and study questions for a few poems at the bottom of the page. L.11-12.5b Nuance
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Poetry With Rebus and Rhyme
An excellent resource for teachers who are interested in teaching innovative poetry techniques to their elementary students. Uses proven and well-documented methods to teach poetic elements in reading and writing.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry
This lesson focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having students read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is followed by a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Producing Poetic Podcasts (Hey, That's Alliteration!)
In this culminating lesson plan for a poetry unit, students will create a video podcast that summarizes a specific poem, analyzes the poet's use of literary elements, and infers the meaning of the poem (theme). The podcast must use a...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Differentiated Reading Instruction Worksheets, Activities
A collection of differentiated reading activities are provided in this collection. Worksheets for the following reading topics are included: climax, story structure, elements of a story; fact and opinion; summarizing, narrative sequence;...