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Tooter4kids: Light and Color

For Students Pre-K - 1st
You'll find a wealth of resources at this site dedicated to color! Easy-to-read discussions can be found on topics ranging from the science of light to complementary colors and the color wheel. All special terms are highlighted and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Color Poems: Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Song Inspired Color Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan students listen to the songs "Over the Rainbow," sung by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and "Color Me Blind," sung by Extreme and read an excerpt from the book Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neill. Then students work...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color My World Grey and Blue

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After listening to the song "Grey Street" by the Dave Matthews Band, and the song "Blu is a Mood" by Blu Cantrell, students will explore the lyrics and discover what role color can play when combined with a particular setting. Students...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Colorful Sensory Poems

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This lesson allows students to explore color - both in literal and figurative terms. Students will read books about color, discuss the emotion involved with color, and incorporate color metaphors to write poems using the graphic...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Poetry Lesson: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students will choose a color and write a poem. Students will use personification and speak from the point of view of the color. Then students will use watercolor paints to exemplify their poem about a color.
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Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Dream in Color: Resource Guide for Elem School Teachers [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore a wealth of poems, lesson plans, and classroom activities to help elementary school students discover the diversity in African-American poets and create their own voice in poetry. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Learners will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
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Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Dream in Color: Teacher Resources Glossary, Credits [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website contains a glossary with definitions of poetic terms and a bibliography of additional African-American poets and books and recommended reading.
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Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Dream in Color: A Guide for Middle School Teachers [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Visit this resource to find a wealth of poems, lesson plans, and classroom activities to help middle school students discover the diversity in African American poets and create their own voice in poetry. This resource is in PDF form.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of James Whitcomb Riley

For Students 9th - 10th
The texts of nine poems by James Whitcomb Riley, with a few biographical notes. Poems include standards like "The Raggedy Man, " and "When the Frost is on the Punkin," as well as less familiar works like "A Barefoot Boy, " and "Granny."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Color of Love: Reflecting on Colors and the Images They Evoke

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a poem based on the images evoked by certain colors.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Click the buttons to get a unique starter for a descriptive piece of writing. You can make up a story, a poem, anything you like.
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Poetry Archive: Little Orphant Annie

For Students K - 1st
Text of James Whitcomb Riley's popular poem, "Little Orphant Annie."
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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.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Merry Go Round by A. J. Daryl

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A Merry Go-round by A. J. Daryl (1888), a color illustrated book of poems about children's activities and games.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Visit to Story Land by Mc Loughlin Bros.

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A Visit to Story Land Pretty Pictures to Color and Pleasant Stories to Read by McLoughlin Bros. (c1887), a collection of illustrated nursery rhymes, stories, and poems.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Akron at Night by Teri Ellen Cross Davis

For Students 7th - 8th
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is a poet who draws upon small, personal moments to explore large themes. Common subjects in her poetry include the experiences of women and people of color in America. This poem is from her 2016 collection Haint....
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Indiana University

Lilly Library: Indiana University: The Appeal of James Whitcomb Riley

For Students 9th - 10th
For James Whitcomb Riley's sesquicentennial in 1999, the Lilly Library created this exhibition which provides biographical information as well as background on several of his more popular poems, such as "Little Orphant Annie," and "The...
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Other

Uncle Remus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a collection of 35 "Uncle Remus" stories, written by Joel Chandler Harris. In addition, many of Harris's songs and poems are gathered here, and some analysis of his work.
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Other

Kidz Korner: Sea Turtles for Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides an extensive list of sea turtle sites and includes "Turtle Trax" coloring pages that younger students can print out to color.
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Harvard University

Harvard: The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: John Lydgate

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides a brief biography and general critique of his "high style" English lyric poetry, with links to several of his works, some annotated. Beautiful color picture from "Sege of Thebes."
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abcteach

Abcteach: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource features a variety of activities related to dinosaurs. There are interdisciplinary tasks that include writing exercises such as creative writing and story planner formats. Lessons for...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Insect Theme Page

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Insect rhymes, crafts, coloring printouts, and quizzes are collected by Enchanted Learning. Color pictures, diagrams, and charts are included.

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