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Comparing Author's Voice

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compare various voices. In this author's voice instructional activity students read poems from two books, Spooky ABC and Where the Sidewalk Ends. Students choose words that indicate the voice of the author.
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"How Many, How Much" by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students decide on the reasonableness and relative magnitude of situations in their lives as Shel Silverstein did in the poem "How Many, How Much."
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Animals and Humans

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars identify the functions of various body parts. They participate in the "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" song, draw a picture of themselves and other mammals, and create a traced outline of their body that they add...
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Literature Based Money Countdown Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
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."
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Meet the Trees!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars investigate their school forest and make their own miniature forest. In this forest investigation lesson, students read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and make alist of reasons to have trees. Young scholars...
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Let the Bugs do the Rhyming

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to limericks and write their own about a favorite insect.
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Compassion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss respect, responsibility, and honesty, and participate in a project that reaches beyond the classroom.
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Six Trait Writing with Charles Dickens and Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the traits of good writing in poems and stories in the six lessons of this unit. The traits analyzed are used to improve the student's own writing skills.
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poem "One Inch Tall" from the book "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the terms: ratio, proportion, and measurement in their description of the life of a person one inch tall.
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The Band-Aid Counting Poem

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to the teacher read a poem by Shel Silverstein and count the band-aids in the story.
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poem "Smart" by Shel Silverstein from "Where the Sidewalk Ends"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars incorporate their conceptual understanding of proportions to write a creative piece similar to the example poem.
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poem "Smart" by Shel Silverstein from "Where the Sidewalk Ends"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore unit rate and ratio and discuss the relationship.
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Trash or Treasure?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify things that can be reused. In this environmental lesson plan, students read the poem "Hector the Collector" and discuss the difference between junk and treasure. Students complete a reflection about what they read by...
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The Giving Tree

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Little literature analysts listen as you read The Giving Tree to them and discuss other ways the tree could have helped the little boy.A three-column chart is given to each individual showing what the tree and boy gave to each other and...
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Kandinsky Cut Circles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Kandinsky definitely knows how to use the concept of shape in art. Kids get motivated to create artworks inspired by the amazing circle. They cut out several circles and glue them in concentric patterns on their paper. Tip: The book The...
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Where the Sidewalk Transcends

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars use titles of Shel Silverstein poems to generate their own poetry for Students. Each student then compares his or her poem to the Shel Silverstein poem of the same title.
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Recycling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners read or listen to a story, and discuss how it relates to them. In this personal event writing activity, students write about recycling. Learners read "The Giving Tree" a Shel Silverstein poem and discuss the poem's meaning....
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A Moment in Time

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study poems to see how punctuation, line length, rhythm and word choice can be used to create a memorable moment. They read and discuss poems by Shel Silverstein.
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The Giving Tree

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore wants and needs. In this ecology and economics lesson, students listen to the story The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and compile a class list of what the boy got from the tree. Students categorize these items as...
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What's The Scoop?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the properties of matter.  In this cross curriculum three states of matter science lesson, students listen to the poem "Eighteen Flavors" by Shel Silverstein, and predict what will happen if listed ingredients are...
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Deena's Lucky Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover the coin denominations of U.S. Currency.  In this money lesson, students read the book Deena's Lucky Penny, then complete a coin matching activity using the Internet.  Students also read Shel Silverstein's poem...
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Word Beads: Writing Poetry

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write rhyming poems. For this poetry writing lesson, 2nd graders discuss the meaning of the word "funny." They use word tiles to create a rhyming poem which they transpose into their writing journals. They listen to...
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"Colors" a poem by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect data, graph it, and use the data to find measures of central tendencies, and find probabilities.
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Literature: Poetic Devices Review

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine poems by Shel Silverstein and identify literary elements in them. The exercise is part of an examination review about poetic elements. The review concludes with students writing nature poems displaying the devices...

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