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Read Works

Read Works: "City Autumn"

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Joseph Moncure March describing autumn in the city. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: "Wild Goose"

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Curtis Heath describing the migration of a wild goose. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: "The Road Not Taken"

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Robert Frost about the choosing the less popular path. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Bird Came Down [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
A poem by Emily Dickinson in which the narrator watches a bird come, eat, and then fly away. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Picture This: Visualization

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Students will practice the reading comprehension skill of visualizing. Teachers will model the skill with All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. Then students will listen to Robert Service's poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: A Poem for Two Voices [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a PDF lesson. After reading/listening to selections of "poems for two voices" from the book Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and after students compare and contrast two items, they compose a poem for two voices in the "voice" of...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein

For Students 5th - 7th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Eating Together

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: "I Used to Be, but Now I" Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
After reading/listening to the picture book When I Was Five by Arthur Howard, students will compare themselves today to a time in their life when they were younger. After determining exactly how old you will be in your younger state and...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Text Connections Pompeii in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites that demonstrate text connections through various texts about Pompeii.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Wind, Water, Stone

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, poem, or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Amphibians

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

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