What a skillful way to incorporate Shel Silverstein, a wonderful author, into the classroom. Composed of three tasks, children are led through a series of text-dependent questions that force them to unveil the meaning of Silverstein's...

Both poetry analysis and waste disposal are more engaging topics for young readers with a activity to accompany the Shel Silverstein poem 'Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" from Where the Sidewalk Ends. Not only...

Find out just how smart your young mathematicians are with this cross-curricular math and language arts lesson. After first reading Shel Silverstein's poem "Smart", students draw pictures of coins to model the different exchanges...

Check to see that readers recall specific details from Shel Silverstein's poems. The poems appear to be taken from the collection Falling Up. Bring this classic children's author to your class with this resource.

In this printing practice worksheet, students copy each line from Shel Silverstein's s poem, "Rain". Students copy 12 lines on primary lined paper.

Are you studying Shel Silverstein? Focus on The Giving Tree and talk about selflessness in your class. In this online interactive quiz, pupils respond to eleven multiple-choice reading comprehension questions on this particular...

In this money worksheet, students complete two tables using the references to money in two pieces of children's literature. They work with Judith Viorst's, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday and Shel Silverstein's poem, "Smart."

In this verbs worksheet, students read a Shel Silverstein poem and fill in 27 missing verbs. Students are given a word box with the missing verbs.

For this The Giving Tree worksheet, students read the story The Giving Tree and identify words with pictures, fill in missing words, write correct numbers, and answer short answer questions. Students complete 4 activities.

In this verb usage worksheet, students read sentences with two verbs, present and past tenses, in parenthesis and choose the verbs that fits best in the sentences. Students choose 7 answers.