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Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
Second graders make several inferences based on the reading of Shel Silverstein poems. They write their own poetry and complete an assessment in which they differentiate between sentences that are stated or inferred.
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Visualization
Young scholars practice visualization as a strategy to increase reading comprehension. They practice while the teacher reads a poem to them before reading a poem silently to themselves. Next, they practice making mental images while...
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Dirty Dan Isn't Dull!
Students read smoothly and expressively while noticing punctuation and using voice inflection to emphasize important words and phrases in the text. They listen to and reread a poem in small groups. Students discuss how the poem sounds...
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The Fight - Oral Fluency Practice
Second graders review the format of a statement, question and exclamatory sentences. After being read a poem twice, they discuss the concept of fluency when it comes to reading them. As a class, they read a different poem with each...
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The Little Dancers-- Printing Practice
In this printing practice worksheet, students learn to copy the sentences of a poem in their best printing. Students read the poem about ballet and look at the picture. Students copy the poem with proper spacing on the primary lines.
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Rhyming With Pancakes
Pupils listen to the book The Great Pancake Escape as an introduction to rhyming and its use in storytelling. Provide examples of simple words that rhyme with other simple words and come up with rhymes with an end word from an earlier...
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"Memories"
In this poetry worksheet, students read and analyze the poem, "Memories" and then answer four multiple choice reading comprehension questions over the poem.
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Meet Danitra Brown Lesson on Friendship
Students discover the qualities of friends. In this character education lesson, students read the poem "Coke-bottle Brown" by Nikki Grimes. Students then discuss the Golden Rule and how it applies to friendships.
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Reading Lesson Plan: Happy Rocks
Students receive welcome gifts. In this happy rock lesson plan, students get the smooth stone rocks as gifts from their teacher. Students also receive welcome poems.
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Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Students identify and use patterns in oral and written language, as well as in sounds, physical movements, and concrete objects.
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Where Oh Where on the Playground, Do I Love To Be?
Students listen to poem, Where Oh Where On the Playground, Do I Love to Be?, and practice reading, interpreting, and making maps, charts, and graphs in surveying classmates and discussing their favorite places to play in school playground.
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What Do You See?
Students practice visualizing elements from a poem or story. While reading a poem aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a picture of the main character of the story "Because of Winn-Dixie"...
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Rhymes
In this rhymes instructional activity, students read a short poem about a zebra. Students fill in the missing words so they rhyme. Students then write the next two lines of the rhyming poem.
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Teacher Erase/Color a Rhyme
In this rhyming worksheet, students fill in 10 blanks to a rhyming poem about a teacher, then color a partially completed drawing of the teacher based on the rhymes in the poem.
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Very Neat Butterfly Feet
Students complete a craft project. In this art and poetry lesson, students use their own feet to create a picture of a butterfly. Students attach their poem to their butterfly picture.
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Deshawn's Days
Students read about a boy while exploring poetry. For this poetry lesson, students discuss how Deshawn's neighborhood and family are described.
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Valentine's Day
In this Valentine's Day reading activity, students read facts about Valentine's Day and an example poem. Students then answer 5 questions about the text.
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Deduction
Pupils investigate the linguistic devices used by writers to create meaning. In this writing lesson, students discover why writers write in different ways showing examples of different types of text. After reading each type pupils review...
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I Imagine
Young scholars discuss the importance of using sensory words to describe objects; talking about words that refer to size, shape, texture, sound, smell, etc. They select a few objects around the classroom and use sensory words to describe.
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Picture This!
Learners practice visualizing images as they read text to help improve their comprehension skills. The teacher models a visualizing technique, and the passes out two poems for the students to read silently. The class creates a Venn...
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Visualize It, Understand It, Remember It!
Young scholars observe and demonstrate visualization exercises to improve their reading comprehension. They discuss how to visualize images, then draw pictures for sentences written on the board. Students read the poem Gumeye Ball by...
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Punctuation and Capital Letters
In this writing worksheet, students read a short poem on the importance of writing capital letters correctly and then write two original sentences that begin with capital letters on the lines provided.
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Oh, You Funny Question Mark
In this punctuation learning exercise, students will read a short poem about question marks. Then students will practice writing asking sentences and using question marks.
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Funny Question Marks
In this punctuation learning exercise, learners read a poem about a question mark. Students also write their own sentence that asks a question.