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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: A Poem for Two Voices [Pdf]
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...
TES Global
Tes: Prose. Toad Rage
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource features related activities connected to Morris Geitzman's book, Toad Rage. Students will read a fable, nonfiction reading, prose reading, and connected writing activities.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: "I Used to Be, but Now I" Poetry
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...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Tp Castt
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of poetry to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, prepare for writing about texts, and engage in language analysis...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Tuneful Bugs and Birds
Arts Edge at the Kennedy Center provides this lesson plan for teachers of ESOL students that integrates music into language arts. Students create their own poetry while listening to music about bugs and birds.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Advice to Youth on Things Now Gone
Poetry and music are unmistakably intermixed, and in this lesson, we focus on the word choice and idea development of both song and poem. After listening to the modern song and reading the famous old poem, "Gone" by Switchfoot and "To...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Geoffrey Chaucer
Have your students ever read any of Geoffrey Chaucer's work? Check out this comprehensive site featuring links to several sites focused on his life and "The Canterbury Tales."
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Your Glorious Gene Pool
Students read the books like I Am the Dog. I Am the Cat by Donald Hall and Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and read the lyrics while listening to the song "Shallow End of the Gene Pool" by the Austin Lounge Lizards. Then students learn...