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Creature Feature Poetry Keyword Search!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the differences between fact and opinion, and brainstorm ideas for a keyword list by analyzing facts. They listen to poems, and create posters listing three keywords about each creature featured in the poetry.
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Write Acrostic Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore acrostic poetry and use names of their favorite personalities from television, music, or sports. They write descriptions for each letter of the person's name.
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Who Am I? (Intermediate Grades)

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students write "Guess Who?" poems in a descriptive manner. They listen to the poems as they are read aloud and try to guess who the poem belongs to.
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I Am From Poem

For Students 3rd - 12th
In this poetry worksheet, students create a poem about their memories and upbringing. Students use details and feelings that reflect their life and memories.
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Lesson Ideas for Halloween Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Halloween writing activities provide a way to make descriptive language a part of a student's literary repertoire.
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Explore your Culture through Storytelling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore the cultural heritage through of your class through reading, writing, and speaking exercises. They create illustrated mini-books that express their unique cultural and personal experiences. They share their stores with the class...
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Haiku Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write their own haiku poem after a lesson plan on the history and format of a haiku. In this poetry lesson plan, 3rd graders write a haiku with the correct lines and symbols.
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Understanding Immigration Through the Use of Triante Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read a book about emigrating to America. They create and illustrate a triante poem using sensory words, depicting something they liked about the story.
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Lesson #25

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use their knowledge of verbs to write poems about the wind.
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Tales From Around the World

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners read stories. For this culture lesson, students read stories from different regions around the world. Learners look for each region on the map and listen for interesting cultural details in the story. Students then discuss the...
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Poetry: A Picture of Feelings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students take a field trip to a place of interest. After the trip they share with a partner their most memorable memory about it. Later, they paint a picture representative of the trip and illustrate it with a poem using at least two...
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Sun and Moon Poetry Baskets

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students write Sun and Moon poetry. In this poetry instructional activity, students research the sun and the moon.  They write poetry and create two class baskets for descriptive words about each.
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My Name Is Me!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners write about themselves. In this personal writing lesson, students write their name vertically down a sheet of paper and think of a self descriptive word that matches each letter of their name. Learners write a descriptive...
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Father Time

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a memory book and acrostic poem for Father's Day. For this Father's Day lesson, students appreciate unique things their fathers do for them. Students create an original project for their father.
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You Too Can Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the country of Japan. In this international studies lesson, students utilize their geography skills to locate Japan on a map. Students explore some Japanese customs and communities. Students use descriptive language to...
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Language Arts: What Makes an Individual

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to the teacher read "The Sneetches" prior to creating charts about their individual characteristics. After numerous examples of individuality, they compile them on chart paper. As an extension, 3rd graders write...
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I Imagine....

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this writing prompt worksheet, students choose fantasy or real animals to describe in a poem or story. Students draw pictures of their animals as well.
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All About Me

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students write a paragraph, make lists, draw, and brainstorm things about themselves, their goals, and their past. In this all about me lesson plan, students recall information about themselves, and interview others in order to write...
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Mix and Match Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compare boring and vivid words: adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. They list them and come up with 10 vivid words on cards. They shuffle all the cards and use 10 to write "vivid" poetry.
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Louisiana Cinquains

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students enhance their understanding of parts of speech by writing a cinquain poem about Louisiana. In this cinquain poem instructional activity, students read example cinquain poems and study the format for a cinquain poem. Students...
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Snowy Evening Poetry for ESL (Elementary, Literature)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read Robert Frost's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, illustrated by Susan Jeffers (2001). This is a wonderful book with beautiful illustrations that go with each line of the poem.
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The "Write" Stuff: Third Grade Strategies and Conventions

For Teachers 3rd
Students analyze the writing process through the ten lessons of this unit. The expository lessons address topic and detail sentences, paragraph organization and development, note taking, reports and letter writing.
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Figuratively Writing...It's for the Birds!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify and use literary devices such as personification, idioms, hyperbole, and metaphors. They identify one literary device and illustrate the meaning. They write a letter using correct letter format and incorporates literary...
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The Poetry Archive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discover how to express their feeling poetically. In this poetry lesson plan, students discuss their feelings, descriptive language to describe these feelings, and create poems.