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Writing a Word Fib Poem
Students write a word fib poem using different word starters and different number of syllabled lines. Students write 6 lines in the poem.
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Commemorative Coin Poetry
Students discuss and research an individual or event that has been memorialized on a commemorative coin. They use the information they found to write acrostics, creating stand-up accordion books to display the poems.
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Snowy Evening Poetry for ESL (Elementary, Literature)
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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Cool School Poetry
Students generate a word bank drawing on vocabulary from fifteen school related topics. They use the word bank to write poetry in the styles of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky.
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Fiction and Poetry
Students explore fictional text and poetry. They explore the story structures used in the types of texts and examine the language patterns used. Students practice tracking text in the correct manner.
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Searching for Images in Poetry
Pupils are introduced to the concepts of similes, metaphors and personification. In groups or individually, they read different poems identifying the similes, metaphors and instances of personification in each. They record all answers...
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Acrostic Poem Plan
In this acrostic poem worksheet, students make a plan for a poem using the letters of the word "cycling" as the letters that begin the first lines of each line of the poem.
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test 4th Grade Reading Sample Test: Butterfly Poetry
In this reading worksheet, 4th graders prepare for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test by completing this practice test. Students read the tips and hints, read the butterfly poems and answer 8 multiple choice and essay questions....
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The Whale Poem
Students watch a whale video clip for information. Students brainstorm on the facts that they learned about whales. Students use the Internet to find information and images about whales. Students write and publish a whale poem.
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A Poem for Columbus - Junie B. Jones Series
In this poetry and rhyming words activity, students fill in the blanks in a poem about Christopher Columbus. They add a rhyming word at the end of each of the 14 stanzas. This activity is associated with the Junie B. Jones series of books.
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Plant Poetry
In this poetry worksheet, students complete a poem about plants and insert the right wording to each line. Students complete 10 lines of the poem with specific directions.
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Poetry Creations
Students produce iMovies to share their thoughts of friendship along with poetry creations in this technology-based lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. The lesson includes a link to a "create a poem" site and requires computers...
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Using Walt Whitman¿¿¿s Poem ¿¿¿Leaves of Grass¿¿¿ And Takamri¿¿¿s Girl And Boy As Inspiration for Writing a Celebration of Self
Students read and analyze Walt Whitman's poem, "Leaves of Grass." They compare/contrast Whitman's style to artist Takamori's style, and write an original poem about their childhood and fond memories.
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Reading Comprehension- Understanding Poetry
In this poetry reading comprehension worksheet, students examine a poem about charity. They discuss references from the poem, and determine what the narrator has done and how the narrator feels about charity.
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What Your Own ee Poem
In this poetry writing activity, students write words and a poem using ee words. They write 4 words that rhyme with feet. They write ee words to match pairs, use ee words to complete sentences, and write a poem using the ee words.
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The Poetry of Woody Guthrie
Students develop oral fluency through reading and singing. They sing "This Land is Your Land" and discuss what the pictures and words mean in the song. They connect the song and poem and previous learning and write a journal.
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Leaves Poem
In this Leaves Poem activity, students write down words that describe leaves. Next, use those words to write a poem about leaves.
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Little Dancers Poetry and Vocabulary Worksheet
In this reading and writing worksheet, students read a poem about ballet dancers and study the vocabulary that is underlined in the poem. They study the definitions that are listed on the second page.
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Electric Light Art
Learners write a poem about a single work of art by Flavin. In this descriptive response lesson, students express their feelings about the work and organize words into phrases. Learners arrange word phrases on paper to form...
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Prairie Activity: Imagist Prairie Poems
Students write an imagist prairie poem. They explore various websites, view images of prairies, read examples of poems, and write an original poem that creates a mental image in the mind of the listener through the use of descriptive...
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Video Poetry
Pupils analyze a poem of their choice to find the meaning. They break the poems into sections and add images and sounds to make it into a video. They show their video to the whole school if possible.
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Can You Haiku?
Everyone loves haikus! They're short, quick, and fun to write! Analyze the rules and conventions of haiku. Readers interpret examples of haiku and develop a vocabulary for writing haiku. Then they compose a haiku based on a personal...
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Personification Lesson Plans and Resources
This resource on personification provides three different approaches aimed at different levels. The first, appropriate for upper elementary, provides examples of personification, followed by an exercise that requires replacing a word in...
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The Important Poem
Students are read numerous examples of strong poetry. Individually, they brainstorm a list of interests or attributes about themselves and choose the most important one. They write a poem using the attribute and shares the poem with the...