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Introduce Vocabulary: Over in the Meadow (Keats)

For Teachers K - 3rd
If you're reading the classic story Over in the Meadow, consider this strategy to cover vocabulary in context with budding readers. After a brief introduction, listeners raise a hand when they hear each word (bask, burrowed, and cawed)...
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Over in the Meadow

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover how to locate books on meadow and pond animals and research them. Students discover how to locate fiction/story books about the animals mentioned in the counting book read. Students discover how to locate by author,...
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Over in the Meadow

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these literature worksheets students will illustrate each stanza of the poem. Students will then staple together their pages to create a student made poetry book.
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Over In The Meadow

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students read the poems on each page and then color the pictures in or decorate the background.
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Animal Habitats

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore animal lifestyles by researching their characteristics. In this animal habitat instructional activity, students read the story Over in the Jungle and analyze the animal illustrations in the book. Students create clay...
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Vocabulary Practice: Fill in the Blanks

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners correctly complete sentences, filling in blanks with words from a word pool at the top of the worksheet, 12 sentences total.
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Teaching Selected Poems from Jim Wayne Miller's the Brier Poems

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the basic elements of poetry through Appalachian life poetry. In this poetry instructional activity, students read seven poems from Jim Wayne Miller's the Brier Poems and complete poetry analysis activities for each poem.
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Vocabulary Practice

For Students 5th - 6th
In this vocabulary practice learning exercise, students complete the 12 sentences with the correct word or phrase from the word pool.
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Interactive
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Grammar Rock Preposition

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this prepositions worksheet, students first view a YouTube video of a song about prepositions. Students fill in the missing words in the lyrics. This is an online interactive exercise.
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Add a Stanze to a Poem

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this poem activity, students add a stanza to a given poem, using information they know about monarch butterflies.
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Wee Little Havroshechka

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Russian folktale worksheet, students read 4 pages of a folktale titled Wee Little Havroshechka and answer short answer questions about it. Students answer 3 questions.
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What's It All About?- Kansas Prairies

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the interdependence of animal life and the environment. In this Kansas prairies lesson plan, students read background information on prairies and complete a worksheet to identify the main idea.
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Reading Comprehension 7

For Students 8th - 11th
Use this reading comprehension assessment to prepare for a state test, or to assess your students' reading. After reading a four-paragraph passage, young learners answer seven questions on literary devices, tone, and author's purpose. An...
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Planning a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Have your class write stories. Learners discuss how to create a great beginning, develop a list of characters, and provide a resoulution of a story. There are some aspects of this presentation that could be altered to provide clearer and...