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Say It With Shapes
Students create patterns with shapes and words. For this patterns and shapes lesson, students recieve an envelope with shapes with words on them. Students make patterns with the shapes that also create a poem. Students can add to the...
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Diamante Poems
Third graders discuss what diamante stands for in English. They discover the elements of a Diamante poem by observing the teacher writing a poem. Using their journals, 3rd graders create their poem using different parts of speech and...
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Printable Poem Starter: Write a Limerick for St. Patrick's Day
This shamrock-shaped graphic organizer helps students set up a limerick based on a few sample lines. Students are prompted on which lines should rhyme, and how many syllables each line should have. Once they are finished, the shamrocks...
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Printable Poem Starter: Write a Limerick for St. Patrick's Day
This shamrock-shaped graphic organizer helps students set up a limerick based on a few sample lines. Students are prompted on which lines should rhyme, and how many syllables each line should have. Once they are finished, the shamrocks...
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Creative Writing/Poetry Lesson Plan
Young scholars complete poetry writing activities and art analysis activities. In this creative writing and art lesson plan, students analyze a cubist piece by Picasso and discuss abstraction. Young scholars read a poem by Gertrude Stein...
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Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
Students experience and enjoy the sounds of poetry. They erform sound experiments with sonnets and closely read and analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare. Students write an analysis of how sound affects meaning in a sonnet chosen from the...
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Christmas-Tree-Shaped Poems
Students create poems in the shape of a Christmas tree. They write an original poem detailing how a person can spread joy during the holiday season. The poem is formatted in the shape of a Christmas tree.
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Ideas for Teaching Creative Poetry
Students read and write a variety of forms of poetry and create an original page for a class "I Spy" book. They read and discuss the form of poetry used in the "I Spy" books, and conduct Internet research on how the "I Spy" books are...
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Poetic Teapot Card
Students recognize the role of loved ones in their families and the many things their parents and others contribute to their lives. They write an acrostic poem about their mother, father, or other important person. They then make a...
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Students write a poem. In this writing lesson, students learn about Gwendolyn Brooks, a famous poet. Students discuss shape poetry and how it is written. Students choose an object from nature and write their own shape poem.
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Black History Lesson Plan: Gwendolyn Brooks
Learn more about the work of Gwendolyn Brooks with a language arts lesson. Young learners read an informational passage about the acclaimed poet before attempting a shape poem of their own.
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Friendship Cinquain
Invite your class to share their appreciation of one another through the work of a Valentine's Day cinquain poem. Scholars use their knowledge of their classmates to describe them through adjectives, action verbs, and a complete sentence.
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What Can Your Class Do?
Inspire scholars to do their part for planet Earth with a read-aloud of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, and variety of activities designed to boost the environmental activist in us all. Activities include writing poems about the Earth, sorting...
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Picturing America: Images and Words of Hope from Romare Bearden and Langston Hughes
A carefully crafted three-day instructional activity integrates poetry and visual art. By analyzing and comparing Langston Hughes' poem "Mother and Son" and Romare Bearden's collage "The Dove," readers explore the theme of hope. The...
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Modern Drama
Upper graders can read all about the origins of modern drama. Each slide provides a paragraph of information related to key players, art movements, and time periods that shaped modern drama. It relates well to many aspects of literature...
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Concrete Biopoems
Students write a five line poem describing themselves in Spanish. They finish the poem by publishing it on paper that is cut into a shape that helps identify them.
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List Poetry
First graders create a list poem using the letters of their names. They describe themselves in the poems, present them and publish a class poetry book.
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Plant Poetry
For this poetry worksheet, students complete a poem about plants and insert the right wording to each line. Students complete 10 lines of the poem with specific directions.
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Oceans-A Fact Haiku
Students create haiku poems. In this poetry lesson plan, students listen to the sound of the ocean from an audio file and write a haiku poem about oceans.
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The Caterpillar
In this poetry worksheet, students read the poem "The Caterpillar," color the picture, underline the rhyming words and then write the rhyming words on pages two through six.
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Safari Sentence Scramble
Students use real life experiences for writing. In this identifying details lesson, students use information such as colors, numbers, sizes, shapes and locations to write sentences about the zoo. Students position the words from left...
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Write-on Shapes: Flower
In this online shape activity learning exercise, learners color the shapes online and print out the copy. Students may use the shapes for writing poems, word lists, reports, vocabulary words, and other activities.
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Turkey Shapes and Poem
In this turkey poem worksheet, students cut out and color 12 turkey shapes. Students will read the poem that goes with the colored turkeys.
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Surprise!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Cover an array of topics such as where we live, different times of day, shapes, the city and the country, what we do for fun, jobs, and games, all while practicing how to express...
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