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The Summer Fun Summer Learning Poetry Unit Unit PlanThe Summer Fun Summer Learning Poetry Unit Unit Plan
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National Center for Families Learning
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1st - 8th
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The Summer Fun Summer Learning Poetry Unit

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Focus on poetry this summer to enhance those comprehension, fluency, and language skills with a set of resources intended to explore different types of poetry, specifically lyric poetry. The daily activities contain differentiation ideas for a variety of age levels. The resource can be used at summer school or even with parents at home with their children for the summer.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

poetry, summer reading, poetic elements, summer, summer homework, lyric poetry, types of poetry, poetry writing, poetry analysis, reading poetry, narrative poetry, Vocabulary

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use as daily activities to supplement a poetry unit during the school year
  • Post on your class website for parents to reference during the summer and use as they please

Classroom Considerations

  • Intended for all grade levels, but most appropriate for elementary and early middle schoolers
  • Although in color, the resource remains high quality when printed in black and white

Pros

  • The 51 page packet comes with five days worth of instructional activities, teaching strategies, extension ideas, writing prompts, background information for teachers and parents, and worksheets

Cons

  • None

Common Core

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