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Activity
Poetry4kids

Playing With Your Food Poem Lesson

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
What's more fun than playing with your food? Writing a poem about it! A quick and straightforward lesson guides young writers through the steps of writing a funny, well-structured poem about combining sports and food.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Basketball for Better Verse

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students listen to and read stories about basketball. They write poetry about basketball.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Max's Math Adventures

For Students 5th
In these multiplication word problem worksheets, 5th graders read a poem about 'Dr. Proctor's Multiplying Machine.' Students solve the rhyme in the poem and complete several multiplication problems.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Defining Conflict Using "The Interlopers"

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Feeling conflicted? Work out those issues with a language arts lesson on internal and external conflict. Using "The Interlopers" by Saki, class members identify the conflicts between the characters before writing their own short stories...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Personification Lesson Plans and Resources

For Teachers 4th - 10th
This resource on personification provides three different approaches aimed at different levels. The first, appropriate for upper elementary, provides examples of personification, followed by an exercise that requires replacing a word in...
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Giving Tree

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this The Giving Tree activity, students read the story The Giving Tree and identify words with pictures, fill in missing words, write correct numbers, and answer short answer questions. Students complete 4 activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Press Release

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders write and publish a press release. In this news writing lesson plan, 7th graders analyze press releases from various online sources. Students write a press release about a major event in their school.