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Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write a Name Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site describes how a Name Poem is a good way to teach children to focus the influence that people (friends and family) around them have. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write an "I Am" Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a template for "I Am" poetry. Students will focus on their own characteristics as they create an autobiographical poem.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write a Cinquain

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
At the most basic level a cinquain is a five line poem or stanza. Here are two variations. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Seasonal Haiku

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
This site is a three-part lesson that teaches young scholars how to write and depict seasonal imagery through haiku. Students study, listen to, and create original haiku on colored backgrounds.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Dynamite Diamante Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five lessons that teach about parts of speech, gerunds, and vocabulary by having students write diamante poetry. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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TES Global

Tes: Prose. Toad Rage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource features related activities connected to Morris Geitzman's book, Toad Rage. Students will read a fable, nonfiction reading, prose reading, and connected writing activities.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Diamante Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this printable template to teach students how to create a diamante poem.
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TES Global

Tes: Forms of Poetry: Haiku. Theme of Winter: Worksheet

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn about the form of a haiku. Students will read several examples of haikus and then write their own haikus about the topic of Christmas or New Year's Eve.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Personification Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan examines the use of personification in the "great poets." Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Similes [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
This printable worksheet tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Teacher Resources: Air, Air, Everywhere Teacher's Activity Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This teaching guide includes 10 hands-on activities to teach about air quality and the importance of keeping our air clean. Learners will complete activities that include simple sensory experiments to discover the characteristics of air,...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Onomatopoeia Form

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Printable form to reinforce student's understanding of onomatopoeia.