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Comma Exercise 5

For Students 5th - 9th
In this comma exercise activity, students are given seventeen sentences to proofread and edit inserting commas where necessary.
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Tricks of the Trade A Collection of Concrete Poems-for writing concrete poems

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore concrete poetry. In this lesson about poetry, students read A Poke in the I, by Paul B. Janeczko, and are introduced to concrete poems. Students read several different kinds of concrete poems including single-word, and...
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Simile and Metaphor

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this identifying simile and metaphor worksheet, students read information and examples, finish lines with similes, and write metaphors. Students complete 10 answers.
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Dali & Desnos: Surrealism in Poetry and Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the surrealism movement and its primary artists. Language is also analyzed, and students will create their own original poem utilizing surrealistic techniques.
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Slices of American Pie: The 1960s Through Music

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine political, cultural, and social movements through music. In this 1960s American history lesson plan, 11th graders explore the music of the decade in order to better understand the complexity of the time period....
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A Center Approach to Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students experience the different types of poetry in order to classify them. In this poetry lesson, students discover the multiple types of poetry while reading in the library. Ultimately, the students create their own poetry and share...
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Teaching Selected Poems from Jim Wayne Miller's the Brier Poems

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners explore the basic elements of poetry through Appalachian life poetry. In this poetry instructional activity, students read seven poems from Jim Wayne Miller's the Brier Poems and complete poetry analysis activities for each poem.
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No Regrets: a Poetry Analysis

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students read a poem and use the TPCASTT strategy for analysis. In this poetry analysis instructional activity, students journal about their future goals and read John Updike's "Ex-Basketball Player." Students discuss the purpose of the...
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Just Off Mainstreet by Elmaz Abinader

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read writings from Elmaz Abinader. In this author analysis lesson students read an essay from Abinader and discuss the story "Just Off Mainstreet." Students re-read the text and complete close reading activities.
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Poetry Shared Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore poetry. In this poetry lesson, students discover the qualities of good writing and the characteristics of poetry. Students practice reading poems in different ways. Studnets also discuss the mood of the poem and the...
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The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze the Gwendolyn Brooks use of enjambment in her poem "We Real Cool." In this poetry analysis activity, students define common poetic devices and the examples of enjambment in the poem. High schoolers discuss the poem...
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World Theatre Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this World Theatre Day activity, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write...
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In the Middle - Middle School Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students analyze and interpret poems.  In this poetry lesson, students are read poems aloud, discuss the meanings in groups, and complete two worksheets after listening to the poems.  Links to the worksheets and discussion...
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Ballads and Communication

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compare and contrast different forms of communication.  In this poetry instructional activity, students focus on the ballad form and read "Timothy Winters". Students draw conclusions from the ballad and divide into groups...
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Humans and the Natural World Poetically

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students read poetry  for gist and find images to create a visual narrative.  In this poetry instructional activity, students read Green Lane and Flies and Nettles to examine the relationship between humanity and the nature....
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Place and Character in Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine how place in poetry helps give clues about character. In this poetry lesson, students read a poem while focusing on the descriptions of the room that is being described and predict what type of person would live there....
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Poetry - Landscape, Comparison, and Critical Response

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students compare and evaluate landscape poetry. In this poetry lesson, students read poetry by Owen Sheers that describes place/landscapes. They read and compare two similar poems before looking at visual images related to the poems....
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Feature Column: Virtual Field Trips

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover ways to stay healthy by utilizing Internet education software.  In this computer technology lesson, students investigate Internet programs that simulate a field trip by showing images and video.  Students...
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Going to St. Ives

For Students 7th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students answer a riddle that is meant to make them focus on what the question is really asking them to do. There is an answer key with this riddle.
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Take a Breath, Steal Some Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
  Students explore the art of haiku's by listening to, modeling and creating them.  In this haiku poetry lesson, students choose an object to focus their haiku on.  After hearing a brief history of the haiku; students make...
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fantastic Characters

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study stories. In this writing instructional activity, students discuss the three aspects of a story, read stories focusing on the characters, write a story as a class about a character made up by the class, and write a story...
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Making Connections: I Know Why Caged Birds Sing

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students discuss equality and fairness by reading a Maya Angelo poem.  In this U.S. history lesson, students read the poem I Know Why Caged Birds Sing, and discuss how the era it was written in affected the words.  Students...
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Times of Shakespeare

For Students 4th - 6th
In this listening comprehension interactive activity, students watch the included video about Shakespeare and complete a cloze listening activity. There are eighteen fill-in sentences to complete.
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Review: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms and Homographs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar worksheet, students read the 20 sentences and identify the pair of underlined words as synonyms, antonyms, homonyms or homographs.

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