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Ah, Music!: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Ah, Music! and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, locating information, theme, speculating, and cause and effect.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Rap a Tap Tap

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students are read Rap a Tap Tap, by Leo & Diane Dillon. In this vocabulary focused lesson, students discover the definitions of at least three Tier Two words. They discuss the meanings of the words, as a group, both before and after...
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Ah, Music!: vocabulary words

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this vocabulary words worksheet, learners read the book Ah, Music! and put their vocabulary words into abc order and into sentences. Students do this for 10 words.
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Word Art with King's Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate equality and racism by creating a word art project.  In this civil rights activity, students discover the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and create a word art project using the Internet site Wordle Web. ...
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Art Transitions: Morphs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify artistic expression by participating in a morph activity. In this art analysis lesson, students identify the work of Keith Haring and examine some of his flip books. Students practice creating artistic transitions...
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Green Light

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
How is music like reading? First, listeners rank music from slowest to fastest. How does the music's pace affect your mood? How does this same theory compare to reading? Spark a discussion to identify the similarities. 
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The Pianist

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Do you play any musical instruments? Consider using this question to interest readers in this short passage. Then, have them read the passage and answer the multiple-choice questions that follow. 
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Media Violence - The Good, the Bad and the Future

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders define, identify, measure, and assess the level and impact of violence in media. The media forms evaluated include music, sitcoms, news, and other programs that are identified and shared by the class. 
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Poe's Poetry and Prosody

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Motivate your class with this activity! Learners use passages from Edgar Allan Poe's poetry to practice reading fluency. They read "The Raven" as a rap song to better understand the rhyming patterns and pauses.  
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Calligraphy, Handwriting And The Alphabet

For Teachers K - 8th
Students produce calligraphy projects using writing skills and unique tools in this six-day Art activity. Emphasis is placed upon the work of Portland, Oregon calligraphy artist Inga Dubay and her experiences with "Italic" writing...
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All About Me

For Students 3rd - 5th
First, have each English language learner fill out the 15 sentence frames. Then, pair up your learners and have each share their completed sentences. There's a place for the listening partner to record his or her partner's sentences....
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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 5

For Students 3rd - 6th
Designed specifically for English language learners, this online quiz provides immediate feedback. Commonly confused words are presented in pairs, and the user must decide which word would best fit in the sentence provided. These words...
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Poetry4kids

Rhythm in Poetry: The Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
What makes a great poem sound so good? Learn the rhythmic secrets of poetry with an explanatory online lesson.
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Reed Novel Studies

The Trumpet of The Swan: Novel Study

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
What lengths will one go to for love? Louis, a swan in The Trumpet of The Swan, struggles to gain the attentions of a girl because he cannot trumpet. Thankfully, his father creates a plan that may work. Scholars discover Louis's attempts...
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Poetry4kids

How to Write a “Favorite Things” List Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
If your students made a list of their favorite things, would writing poetry be on it? After this poetry writing lesson, it might! Young writers make a list of what they like—or what they don't like—before crafting the list into...
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Word BINGO

For Students Pre-K - 4th
Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...
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Brigham Young University

Out of the Dust: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
A guided imagery exercise is a great way to get readers thinking about writing. As part of their study of Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse’s 1998 Newbery Medal winning verse novel, class members listen to a reading of one of the poems...
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Tools for Schools

Book Creator

For Teachers K - 12th
Build beautiful books in whatever style you'd like with an intuitive and adaptable app for constructing books. Kids can add images, drawings, text, and audio to make books about any subject. When complete, learners can wrap up the...
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Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

Peter Pan: Teacher Resource Guide

For Teachers 1st - 12th Standards
What are some of the pros and cons of staying young forever? With the Peter Pan resource, learners discover the magical world of Neverland. Scholars create advertisements that promote eternal youth, and then write persuasive pitches for...
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Learning Musical Terms

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate musical instruments and sounds by defining musical terms.  In this music appreciation lesson, students define many vocabulary words and utilize a study sheet for memorization.  Students are quizzed on the...
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Musical Instruments

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this music activity, students write the name of a musical instrument that they would like to play. Students do research and list as many instruments as they can find.
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Topic - Musical Instruments Word Search

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this musical instruments word search puzzle worksheet, students locate and identify the 20 instruments from the word bank. The words may appear horizontally or vertically.
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San Francisco Symphony

Lesson Ideas for Any Music

For Teachers K - 12th
Music is a wonderful tool you can add to enhance the learning process for every subject. Here is a list of music selections that are categorized by subject, along with some neat teaching suggestions. You'll find songs suited to...
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Sports and Hobbies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore vocabulary related to sports and hobbies. They consider their interests in sports and hobbies in relation to other students. They discuss music and describe a piece of music using simple adjectives.

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