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Curated OER

Splish, Splash Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write weather shape poems and sing weather related songs. For this creative writing lesson, students read the book, It's Raining, It's Pouring and list weather words they heard in the story. Students use the writing process to...
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Curated OER

Spider Poems: The Spider and the Fly

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students review the information they gathered on different websites to write a poem about spiders. They use other websites to gain more information if needed. They share their poem with the class.
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K12 Reader

The Cat on the Mat

For Students 1st Standards
Everyone likes a poem about a cat, especially when it includes other rhyming words that end with -at! Kids read the lines and then respond to three reading comprehension questions.
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K12 Reader

Kick the Brick

For Students 1st Standards
Your class won't say ICK when they see this worksheet that focuses on -ick words! Learners read a short and silly poem containing many -ick words. They then practice reading comprehension and handwriting by tracing the answers to the...
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K12 Reader

The Pet Gets Wet

For Students 1st Standards
Get those -et words down with a quick exercise. Class members read a short poem that includes quite a few -et words and then answer three reading comprehension questions.
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K12 Reader

Tap on the Map

For Students 1st Standards
Work on -ap words with a straightforward exercise. Class members read a short poem that includes plenty of -ap words and respond to three included reading comprehension questions.
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K12 Reader

The Pot is Hot

For Students 1st Standards
What do a pot and a robot have in common? They both end in -ot! Kids practice their -ot words by reading the short poem included here and then tap into reading comprehension skills by answering the three questions.
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K12 Reader

The Brown Cow in the Tower

For Students 1st Standards
Move toward mastery of -ow words with a quick worksheet. Learners read a poem that includes as many -ow words as possible and then respond to three included reading comprehension questions.
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Poetry4kids

How to Write a Fractured Nursery Rhyme

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars take a popular song or nursery rhyme and make it their own as they write a fractured nursery rhyme. Writers seek out a nursery rhyme's rhyming words and change them to create an original poem.  
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Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
As a class, scholars read the poems, Humpty Dumpty, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, and Jack and Jill, in order to identify words with the same ending sound. Using their rhyming skills, learners brainstorm additional words from word...
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Harper Collins

Every Thing On It Lessons and Activities

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Honor the great poet, Shel Silverstein with eighteen activities and lessons showcasing his collection of poems from the book, Every Thing On It. Activities challenge scholars to rhyme words, make inferences, recite a poem, and more! 
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Poetry4kids

How to Write a Clerihew

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Writing funny poems is the best part about learning poetic forms! Young poets learn all about clerihews—humorous four-line poems about people—with an explanatory lesson.
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Poetry4kids

Forced Rhymes and How to Avoid Them

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ready to take your poetry writing to the next level? Use an independent lesson to iron out all those forced rhymes, wrenched rhymes, and near rhymes from first-draft poems.
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Harper Collins

The Giving Tree Anniversary Teaching Guide

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Celebrate poetry month all of April with a guide that uses six of Shel Silverstein's most famous books as a basis for the lessons. Discussion questions and writing activities are provided for each of Silverstein's books.
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Curated OER

Poems: Itsy Bitsy Spider

For Students K - 1st Standards
Act out the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" rhyme with youngsters. Learners observe visual instructions before completing the corresponding actions, then draw the spider into a scene. Finally, they write down rhyming words that have the ai spelling...
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Curated OER

Identify and Create Rhyming Words

For Teachers K
Students discuss rhyming word families and read stories that present those families in rhyme. They generate rhyming words, manipulate sentence strips to pair rhymes and sort pictures of rhyming words.
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Curated OER

Little Dancers- Rhyming Words Worksheet Series

For Students 3rd
In this vocabulary and literacy worksheet set, 3rd graders read a poem entitled, "Little Dancers." They fill in blanks with rhyming words from a word bank in 4 sentences, copy the rhyming words on blank lines using lower case letters,...
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Curated OER

A Poem for Columbus - Junie B. Jones Series

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this poetry and rhyming words instructional 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 instructional activity is associated with the...
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Curated OER

Rhyming With Pancakes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to the book The Great Pancake Escape as an introduction to rhyming and its use in storytelling. Provide examples of simple words that rhyme with other simple words and come up with rhymes with an end word from an earlier...
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Curated OER

Making Poetry

For Teachers 2nd
A hearing impaired student identifies rhyming words. In this rhyming word lesson for the hearing impaired, 2nd graders read and write poetry correctly using rhyming words.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Writing Poetry About the Meadow

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing poetry about the meadow worksheet, students, after completing a lesson on meadow habitats, read the poem "Over in the Meadow" and then write additional stanzas using rhyming words and facts from the habitat lesson.
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Curated OER

Rhyming Exercises: Li and Chi

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this rhyming exercise:  Li and Chi worksheet, students fill in the missing rhyming words for a poem about Li and Chi with the words supplied in a list, answers available online.
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Curated OER

Poetry in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore poetry and technology.  In this poetry writing instructional activity, students choose a theme and write a pattern poem, then create a related slideshow.
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Curated OER

Puzzling Poetry

For Students 6th - 7th
In this language arts worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle. Clues refer to types of poetry such as ballad, chant, couplet, clerihew, limerick and tanka.

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