Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
Poetry Lesson Plans
Need some ideas for poetry lessons? Check out this packet loaded with suggestions for elementary, middle, and high school writers.
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Ladybug Poem
In this poetry learning exercise, students read the poem "Ladybug," color the picture, underline the rhyming words and then write the rhyming words on pages two through four.
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Rain
First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading lesson, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by Robert...
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More Spring Poems: Buttercups
In this literature worksheet, students read and discuss the poem "Buttercups," color the picture, underline the rhyming words and then write the rhyming words on pages two and three several times.
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Do You Want to Be My Friend?
Learners participate in a variety of emergent and early-literacy activities based on a "friendship" theme. Learners listen to the book Do You Want to Be My Friend by Eric Carle, then echo read, choral read, and independently read...
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Using Picture Books to Celebrate Diversity
Help young learners develop social awareness and tolerance by integrating these books into your lessons.
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Exploring Neighborhoods through Art
Students explore neighborhoods. In this color and social studies cross-curriculum lesson, students listen to Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, then compare and contrast neighborhoods. Students mix primary colors to make...
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Rock-A-Bye, Baby
In this language arts worksheet, learners read a classic Mother Goose rhyme called Rock-A-Bye Baby. Students color the picture, which goes with the poem
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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
In this language arts learning exercise, students read a classic Mother Goose rhyme called Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Students color the picture, which goes with the poem.
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Little Bo-Peep
In this language arts worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme called Little Bo-Peep. Students color the picture, which goes with the poem.
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There Was an Old Woman
For this language arts worksheet, students read a classic Mother Goose rhyme called There Was an Old Woman. Students color the picture, which goes with the poem.
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Weather "Whys" Lesson 2 Seasons
Students explore seasons. In this cross curriculum weather and seasons lesson, students identify characteristics of the four seasons and sequence related pictures. Students listen to poems and stories about trees in different seasons,...
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Patty's Pumpkin Patch
Learners explore Halloween by examining pumpkins in class. In this pumpkin observation lesson, students discuss the method in which pumpkins are grown and the time line it takes a pumpkin to grow from a seed. Learners read a pumpkin poem...
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There Was An Old Lady...
First graders read "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" and use Kid Pix to identify characters from the story. In this character identification lesson, 1st graders first hear several versions of the classic tale, and then locate...