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Poetry: Serve Warmly and More Often

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify the mood and theme associated with the language of poetry. They discuss personal interpretation in small groups, and as a class and * experiment with language and rhythm.
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Picture This!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase comprehension through visualization. They make pictures in their heads about what they read and draw on paper a picture of what they visualized. They write about the picture at the bottom of the page to help them...
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Animal Poetry

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this animal poetry worksheet, students gather information about an animal and follow a sample to write an animal poem. Page has links to additional activities.
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Mississippi Delta Blues Moves: Second in a Series of Three with Barb Hoffman and Steve Hoskins, MGM

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students complete a graphic organizer reviewing Barb Hoffman's prior activity," Slave Songs (1840-1876)" as well as listen to and discuss Delta Blues music samples. Students research one Delta Blues singer and write a "color coded"...
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Important Arkansas People

For Teachers K
Famous people in the history of Arkansas are the focus of a history instructional activity for kindergartners. Pupils identify important Arkansas citizens, such as President Bill Clinton. They create an illustrated poem that features...
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Here It Goes Again!

For Teachers 1st
First graders work on patterns in nature and to recognize how different living things adapt to different environments such as the rain forest.
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At the Crossroads

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore where South Africa is and then research details about the country to fully assess the background to the book, "At the Crossroads." They receive a map of Africa and color in the country of South Africa and list five...
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Mother's Day

For Students Pre-K - K
In this holiday worksheet, students color in a bouquet of flowers and illustrate a poem about Mother's Day. The poem begins with, "You fill my days with rainbow light..."
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Language Arts: Ode to the Ordinary

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders select ordinary objects, determine their uses, and write poems about them. Once they select an object, they create a web about its uses to serve as an outline. Once they have written their own odes, 8th graders meet in...
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Animals and Humans

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 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 features to....
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Cloud Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen as a haiku is read by the teacher, determining what season is being portrayed in the poem. Students work together as a class and create a model haiku, then complete a worksheet, completing their own poem. Students will...
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Humpty Dumpty

For Students Pre-K - K
For this language arts activity, students read a classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Students color the picture.
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M & M Madness

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders graph M & M's by color. For this graphing lesson plan, 2nd graders first predict how many of each color they think are in a handful of M & M's. Then they graph the amounts of each color on a computer program....
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Ojibwa Arts

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a poem based on the Native American Ojibwa art that they read about. For this Ojibwa art lesson plan, students read captions and look at pictures of Ojibwa art and then make up a poem based on them.
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Fusion: Calligraphy of Thought

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars read about Calligraphy of Thought, a collection of poetry linking Islam to the West. In this art and poetry lesson, students read about the poetry collection and complete a culture flower.
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Rock-A-Bye, Baby

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts worksheet, learners read a classic Mother Goose rhyme called Rock-A-Bye Baby. Students color the picture, which goes with the poem
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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts learning exercise, students read a classic Mother Goose rhyme called Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Students color the picture, which goes with the poem.
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Little Bo-Peep

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme called Little Bo-Peep. Students color the picture, which goes with the poem.
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There Was an Old Woman

For Students K - 1st
For this language arts worksheet, students read a classic Mother Goose rhyme called There Was an Old Woman. Students color the picture, which goes with the poem.
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Africa

For Teachers K
Students complete various activities related to the continent of Africa. They label and color a map of Africa, sing the Continent Song, view pictures and discuss animals of Africa, listen to the book "Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile,"...
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Down By the Bay

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this "Down by the Bay" worksheet, students read the poem, respond to 8 short answer question, review 16 sight words, and color and arrange the 14 pictures in chronological order.
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Picture It!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in visualization exercises as a reading comprehension strategy. As the teacher reads a poem, the students visualize the setting, then read the poem "Daddy's Making Dinner" and create a drawing of what they visualize...
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The Purple Cow

For Teachers K - 2nd
  Students read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow.  In this poetry lesson plan, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.     
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Raindrops Keep Falling on my Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Kids may be a little resistant to this rainy day idea, but it could produce some amazing art. They paint a watercolor picture of anything they like. When they are done, they take their paintings outside and let the rain work its magic!...