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Creative Writing/Poetry Lesson Plan

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students complete poetry writing activities and art analysis activities. In this creative writing and art lesson, students analyze a cubist piece by Picasso and discuss abstraction. Students read a poem by Gertrude Stein about Picasso...
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Creating Poetic Devices

For Students 9th
In this creating poetic devices worksheet, 9th graders create 5 original examples of poetic techniques by listing and defining each term, then illustrating that example;  a list of terms and an example are shown;  a grading...
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Beginning Sounds and Blends

For Students K - 2nd
In this sounding out picture words worksheet, students say the picture word, determine the beginning sound letter, circle the middle and ending blend letters, and write the words. Students write twenty words.
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Final - E Rule

For Students K - 2nd
In this phonics worksheet, students look at 20 pictures and then say each picture out loud. Students circle the letters that make the beginning, middle and final sound of each picture underneath each picture. Students spell out each word...
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Ee is for Egg

For Students K - 2nd
In this literacy instructional activity, learners use the letter E in various contexts to increase letter recognition and spelling skills for related words.
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Final Rule e - Recognition Memory

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this final e spelling pattern worksheet, students say each picture word slowly and listen to the sounds. They circle one letter from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sound before writing the word in the space provided.
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Oo is for Octopus

For Students K - 2nd
Learners learn to print the upper and lower case DeNelian letter Oo in this language arts worksheet. Students trace several examples before forming their own letters in the unlined boxes. Also included is a Connect-the-Dot and counting...
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Beginning Sounds: 2 Letter Vowels

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning sound worksheet, students say picture words and guess which given letters make the beginning sound. Students circle letters that make the middle and final sound, then spell the word in the space provided.
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Dynamics

For Teachers 1st
First graders review Frere Jacques and perform crescendos and decrescendos. In this music lesson plan, 1st graders also learn about the dynamics of music including piano, forte, mezzo piano, and mezzo forte.
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Uu is for Umbrella

For Students K - 2nd
In this printing activity, learners form the upper and lowercase letter U. Students also color in two pictures that begin with the letter U.
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Uu is for Umbrella

For Students K - 1st
For this printing practice learning exercise, students learn to form both upper and lower case Zaner-Bloser letter u. Students trace several examples before generating their letters in the boxes.
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Aa is for Apple

For Students K - 2nd
In this literacy activity, students practice writing the letter a and color in the pictures related to it. Then students write a sentence.
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Aa is for Apple

For Students K - 2nd
For this printing worksheet, learners form 11 upper and lowercase letter A's. Students color in pictures of words beginning with the letter and write two rows of A's on their own.
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Gingerbread Baby

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Learners also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...
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Ii is for Igloo

For Students K - 2nd
For this printing activity, learners form the upper and lowercase letter Ii. Students also color in pictures that begin with the letter Ii.
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Ii is for Igloo

For Students K - 2nd
For this literacy instructional activity, learners look at the formation of the letter I and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections to help with spelling.
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Cause and Effect II Pre Test

For Students 7th - 9th
In this cause and effect worksheet, students identify cause and effect in given situations.  Students also identify clue words that help them determine cause/effect relationships.
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Do They Rhyme?

For Teachers K
Students pick out words that rhyme. In this instructional activity on rhyme, students listen to the teacher read the poem "My Robot Does My Homework" by Kenn Nesbitt and pick out words that rhyme.
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Eloquent Speech

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover that oral and written communication can be improved, and made to sound more eloquent, when the following questions are addressed; Who? What? Where? When? Why? students use word processing to copy a poem using clip...
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Lesson 1 - Skill 1 - CVC WORDS - Recognition Memory

For Students K - 1st
In this CVC recognition memory worksheet, students examine 20 pictures, say the picture words listening to the sounds, and circle the 1 letter from each of the 3 columns to spell the word in each of the 20 problems.
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Digable Planets, K.B.'s Alley When Jazz Meets Hip-Hop

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the musical style of jazz and identify its elements while listening to hip-hop recordings. They select two styles of music and fuse them together in this lesson.
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Using a Thesaurus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discover how to use a thesaurus. In this language arts lesson, students explore thesauruses as they look up words and write sentences for the new words they encounter.
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Taste Treat Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use their 5 senses to write a paragraph about yummy treats they sample. For this writing lesson plan, students use a graphic organizer to organize their tastes and how they can write about them and then write.
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Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders analyze and interpret figurative language. They listen to some examples of poetry which use figurative language. Then, they divide into groups and attempt to find more examples. Finally, 8th graders write what the poet is...