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- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students memorize multiplication facts 7x3 through 7x8 and 8x3 through 8x8. They make up a rhyming couplet using one of the facts and enjoy singing a silly song. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students recognize poetic devices including rhyme, syllabification, and meter. They identify the characteristics of a nonsense poem and of a limerick. They write their own limericks. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students analyze rap music elements. They consider the common 8 beat rhythm in rap music and listen an example (the lesson cites an example by Smith). They brainstorm rhyming words and try their hand at chanting rhymes following an 8 beat. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students participate in center activities in order to study different types of poetry. They investigate haiku, acrostic, couplet, shape poem, and quatrain and famous poetry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students examine several examples of poetry in the six lessons of this unit. The lessons focus on five poetic forms, couplets, quatrains, limericks, Haiku, and free verse. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explore floating and sinking and make predictions about whether certain objects are likely to sink or float. They read the story Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen. Pupils loacate rhyming words and discuss the events of the story. Students brainstorm and chart additional animals that could have ridden in the boat. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students write three simple rhyming poems and read them aloud with rhythm. Students select two adjectives that are opposites and two rhyming verbs to create rhyming lines of the same length with an adjective-noun-verb pattern. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students comprehend the use of figurative language in poetry and prose. They compare poetic phrasing with narrative or descriptive examples. Students identify clues which suggest poems are older. They identify different patterns of rhyme and verse in poetry. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore the writing of couplets. They work with a partner to write their own Halloween couplet. Students compile the couplets into a book that will be shared with others. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are given information about two popular sonnet forms-English and Italian. They are given the rules for writing a sonnet. Students are asked what type of sonnet they would use. They are each given a sheet of paper and asked to write a sonnet. Students write the sonnnet together. They are explained the rhyme schemes and how the sounds of words are symbolically tracked with the letters of the alphabet. Full Review »
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