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Syber-Silverstein: Poetry in Motion
Sixth graders explore the writing of Shel Silverstein. They listen to the story, The Giving Tree, explore the Shel Silverstein website, read poems, and create and write a humorous poem.
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Poetry
Fifth graders are introduced to poetry and many authors who create it. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders create a class poetry book. Each student submits an original poem, along with an illustration.
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"Colors" a poem by Shel Silverstein
Students collect data, graph it, and use the data to find measures of central tendencies, and find probabilities.
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Trash or Treasure?
Students identify things that can be reused. In this environmental lesson, students read the poem "Hector the Collector" and discuss the difference between junk and treasure. Students complete a reflection about what they read by...
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Six Trait Writing with Charles Dickens and Shel Silverstein
Second graders identify the traits of good writing in poems and stories in the six lessons of this unit. The traits analyzed are used to improve the student's own writing skills.
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poem "Smart" by Shel Silverstein from "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Middle schoolers incorporate their conceptual understanding of proportions to write a creative piece similar to the example poem.
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A Moment in Time
Eighth graders study poems to see how punctuation, line length, rhythm and word choice can be used to create a memorable moment. They read and discuss poems by Shel Silverstein.
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Smart- Counting Coins
Students discover the name and value of coins. In this counting money lesson, students identify heads and tails of coins and the value of each coin. Students visit websites and play games. Students then write a poem about money.
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"How Many, How Much" by Shel Silverstein
Middle schoolers decide on the reasonableness and relative magnitude of situations in their lives as Shel Silverstein did in the poem "How Many, How Much."
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Poetry for the Common Good
Learners identify examples of philanthropy in poetry or song. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students examine several poems such as Give by Carrie A. Thomas and identify concepts of philanthropy in the poem. Learners...
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Literature: Poetic Devices Review
Tenth graders examine poems by Shel Silverstein and identify literary elements in them. The exercise is part of an examination review about poetic elements. The review concludes with students writing nature poems displaying the devices...
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Signing a Poem
Young scholars interpret poetry though movement. In this poetry lesson students take a poem they've previously read and discussed in class and work in pairs to develop gestures for each line.
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Marine Poetry
Students identify characteristics of good poetry and compose their own. For this marine poetry lesson, students are introduced to several different types of poetry with a marine theme. After discussing the elements...
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Animals and Humans
Students identify the functions of various body parts. They participate in the "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" song, draw a picture of themselves and other mammals, and create a traced outline of their body that they add features to....
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Literature Based Money Countdown Challenge
In this money worksheet, students complete two tables using the references to money in two pieces of children's literature. They work with Judith Viorst's, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday and Shel Silverstein's poem, "Smart."
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Let the Bugs do the Rhyming
Students listen to limericks and write their own about a favorite insect.
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Outer Space Creature
Students read poems by Shel Silverstein about planets and outer space. As a class, they compare and contrast his descriptions to actual facts which have been discovered through explorations. They write a description of an outer space...
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poem "One Inch Tall" from the book "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
Learners use the terms: ratio, proportion, and measurement in their description of the life of a person one inch tall.
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poem "Smart" by Shel Silverstein from "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Students explore unit rate and ratio and discuss the relationship.
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Eighteen Flavors
Your learners will be tantalized by this inquiry-based, collaborative activity as they discover how to write an equation that represents the height of an ice cream cone. Given the scenario based on the poem, "Eighteen Flavors," and...
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Where the Sidewalk Transcends
Young scholars use titles of Shel Silverstein poems to generate their own poetry for Students. Each student then compares his or her poem to the Shel Silverstein poem of the same title.
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Recycling
Students read or listen to a story, and discuss how it relates to them. In this personal event writing activity, students write about recycling. Students read "The Giving Tree" a Shel Silverstein poem and discuss the poem's meaning....
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Deena's Lucky Penny
Students discover the coin denominations of U.S. Currency. In this money lesson plan, students read the book Deena's Lucky Penny, then complete a coin matching activity using the Internet. Students also read Shel...
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What's The Scoop?
Students explore the properties of matter. In this cross curriculum three states of matter science instructional activity, students listen to the poem "Eighteen Flavors" by Shel Silverstein, and predict what will happen if listed...