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Curated OER

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research and write an author report on Roald Dahl, including books written by him, birthplace, family life, and other information on his writing. Students read aloud chapters in the book. Students create a newspaper...
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Curated OER

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the life and works of Theodor Seuss Geisel. In groups, they compare and contrast the stories, characters and illustrations he used. They complete a book review on one of the books and share them with other students in...
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Curated OER

A Round and A Round

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students practice singing rounds in daily warm-ups for 2 weeks prior to beginning this composition lesson. Students incorporate movement to the rhythm of each syllable, discuss syllables of words and their relationship to note values and...
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Curated OER

Giraffe Comprehension using Eric Carle as the Feature Author

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate reading comprehension by drawing a picture and writing a sentence about giraffes. In this early reading comprehension lesson, students listen to a read aloud and watch a video about giraffes before drawing a giraffe...
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Curated OER

Artist & Attitude

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners understand the importance of tone in a piece of artwork. They become more aware of purpose before they evaluate any form of art. Students use tone to help establish the success of a written story.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Poetry Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many simple forms, such as cinquain and haiku, that follow set formats, are included in this poetry lesson plan.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Rhythm and Rhyming

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson engages students in the shared learning of different poems of the month. Students will clap different rhythms and then apply clapping patterns to different poems of the month. Each poem will contain different rhythms and...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words: A Story About Fred

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun poem about "Fred" that the teacher reads to the class and young scholars guess what the missing words are. When they guess correctly, they are able to draw the character.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Identify and Create Rhyming Words

For Teachers K Standards
In this lesson students will listen to poetry or rhyming books and recognize rhyming words.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Writing Poems From Dragonfly Facts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
In this activity, students create rhyming poems, first as a class, then on their own, using facts that they have learned about dragonflies.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Chants and Street Rhymes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Four pages of with chants and street rhymes. Three of the pages are reproducible examples and information useful to students, and one page gives lesson ideas for teachers.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Writing a Bio Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site describes how a Bio poem can be used to teach pupils to focus on the characteristics of a person or an animal, anything or anyone really. It requires the student to put themselves in the subject's shoes. Lesson plan indicated...

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