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5th grade english language arts songs
Educational Songs
Learning Through the Top 100*DENOTES NEW SONGS ADDEDThis GROWING BUNDLE includes 22 educational songs/chants written to the tune of popular music. Your students will love learning through singing. As I add songs, the price will increase. Purchase this product to lock in the current price now. Some songs only apply to 4th grade standards. Please view the concepts covered in this bundle. Have suggestions for your grade level? Email me.*ELAMain Idea – Nah to the Ah to the Main IdeaText Structures –
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3rd - 5th
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Hamilton The Musical - Close Reading About the Revolutionary War
Use Hamilton the Musical to enhance your unit on The American Revolution!
Hamilton fever is strong in my house. My sixteen year old daughter caught it first - singing the songs, proudly wearing her “Young Scrappy and Hungry” t-shirt. I thought it was great, but I also thought it was for older kids. It was only when I saw my 10 year old son singing along with his sister that I started thinking that I could harness the brilliance of Hamilton the Musical to get my 4th graders excited about a
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4th - 6th
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Child Labor CLOSE Read Using Newsies Song Lyrics - History & Reading Activity
If you and your students are learning about the history of child labor, or you are looking for an interesting close reading activity - this resource is for you! Close reading with song lyrics has proven to be very helpful to my students. This resource will help integrate this teaching idea into social studies and history lessons! In this 9-page packet, students will read the lyrics Newsies "Seize the Day." The song explains the feelings of newspaper boys when they were forming their union to fig
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3rd - 7th
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Songs for the Classroom
I LOVE using music in the classroom! I find that my students remember concepts much better when we put them into song form. I also find that it instantly boosts engagement and builds community!Since I love writing these songs, I decided to create a home base where I will share them with you. Included in the bundle is a PDF document of the lyric sheets AS WELL AS a PowerPoint presentation with lyrics that can be projected. Each slide includes either an audio file OR a hyperlink to a karaoke Yo
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2nd - 5th
Music Lyric Analysis FOR ANY SONG!
This resource can be used with ANY SONG and is great for a review or test prep!No doubt students love music. As teachers, we know one of the bestways to engage students in learning is teach with their interests in mind.Music offers an engaging and exciting way to cover many Common CoreStandards. What makes this resource stand out is that it can be usedwith ANY SONG! This gives you the choice to use one that your studentsare currently enjoying or one that you enjoy yourself. Students are asked to
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3rd - 10th
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Aca-Scuse Me? Teaching Theme vs. Main Idea With Music and Lyrics
This assignment is PITCH PERFECT for teaching theme to students grades 4 through 8!***UPDATED 9/8/18 TO INCLUDE:***PRE/POST TEST ANSWER KEYSCONCEPT HANDOUT FOR STUDENTSANSWER SHEETS FOR EACH OF THE 5 SONGSIf you are like me back during my first year of teaching 5th, I struggled to teach main idea and theme. This assignment makes the task more fun. Resource is designed to help your students analyze 5 popular songs for themes. Included in this 21 page bundle:-5 hugely popular song lyric pages for
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4th - 8th
Grammar Games and Songs Bundle
This is a bundle of ALL the grammar products currently in my store!Included in this bundle are:6 of my Lucky Noun Games 6 of my Lucky Verb Games6 of my Lucky AdjectivesMy Grammar Songs and Chants pack which includes 8 FUN grammar chants!19 FULL PRODUCTS!If I decide to make more grammar products in the future, they will be added to this bundle and you'll be able to download them for free! Unfamiliar with my LUCKY games? Download this FREEBIE and check out my individual product descriptions. Need
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2nd - 5th
The BIG BOOK of FOLK SONG FUN for Bells or Boomwhackers
What a great resource! 36 familiar folk song melodies, professionally notated on the treble staff with color-coded notes to facilitate success with Boomwhackers or bells. This format works well for teachers and students with very little music experience as well as seasoned music teachers and older students. (If your bells, chimes, or boom pipes aren't color-coded, apply colored stickers). These songs may be projected (great for keeping students focused and guiding discussions). They may also be
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K - 8th
The Holmes Sweet Music Home Picture Book Index
Have you been wanting to incorporate children's literature into your music classroom but don't know how? Are you overwhelmed with finding musical books that cover specific concepts or holidays? Do you wish you had something that helped make lesson planning easier? If the answer is yes to any of those questions, then this is the product for you!Five years ago, I sat down and indexed my entire picture book collection. I categorized it to include rhythmic concepts, melodic concepts, holidays, seaso
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PreK - 8th
Teaching Figurative Language with Taylor Swift Songs - Grades 3-6
If there’s one thing I love about Taylor Swift (other than her dance moves!) it is her use of figurative language. If you have ever listened to her songs you know she uses a lot of similes and metaphors in her writing. She is a major pop star today, and I guarantee your students can (and will!) sing along to any one of her songs! With this product you will be able to teach and have your students practice identifying and writing seven types of figurative language using Taylor Swift songs.
Beginn
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3rd - 8th
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Black History Month Skits & Readers Theater Plays with Scripts 4th and 5th Grade
Are you looking for exciting Black History Month skits or readers theater plays that connects with kids using pop culture, have scripts with a variety of roles for all students, and teaches history in an engaging way? Then this is it! Readers theater = better comprehension!There is no better way to teach students critical reading skills than with reader's theater. As they perform and learn about the various historical heroes, students will improve their skills by:- connecting with the text- lear
Rock Your Writing! Parts of Speech Bundle - Songs, PowerPoints, Worksheets
Here is the ultimate Rock Your Writing! lesson plan system for teaching elementary schoolers about all the parts of speech. This will save you a lot of money instead of buying our products separately. It even covers prepositional phrases, the four types of sentences and their punctuation, subjects and predicates, and compound sentences. This combo comes with the entire 97- page Rock Your Writing! resource book. Nonfiction sentence examples are used extensively throughout the book, as it is desi
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2nd - 6th
Schoolhouse Rock Bundle (Grammar and America) Fill-In Activities
This is a bundled pack of both my Grammar Rock and America Rock Fill-In-the-Blank worksheets. In this resource, you get all 9 Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock songs and 11 America Rock in an easy to print (PDF), fill-in-the-blank style format to use with your students to make listening to the songs more interactive!You will get from Grammar Rock:A Noun is a Person, Place or ThingBusy PrepositionsConjunction JunctionInterjections!Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Pronou
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4th - 12th
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Figurative Language: Music Through the Decades
Take a journey through the decades while identifying figurative language in music specific to each era. The set includes music from the 50s through the millennium. Great for station work or small group activities.
Each decade handout includes a short summary of the music of the period, six sample lyrics of music popular in the era, and a chart for identifying the figures of speech found in each sampling (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and idiom).
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4th - 9th
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Similes and Metaphors in Music Activity Pack
This packet contains:
~links to 6 different music videos with fun songs the kids know and love that contain examples of similes and metaphors. The songs include:
"Without Love" from the movie Hairspray
"Firework" by Katy Perry
"Red" by Taylor Swift
"Mr. Grinch" from When the Grinch Stole Christmas
"Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes
and "Similes and Metaphors in Pop Music" you can use as an introduction or review
~A Simile and Metaphor Cheat Sheet
~Song Lyrics to the songs listed above
~Pr
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3rd - 6th
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Poetry Palace: A Unit on the Structural Elements of Poetry
Looking for Common-Core aligned resources to teach CCSS 4.RL.5 - in particular, the key structural elements of poetry? This 45 page unit is a jam-packed resource with what you'll need to encourage poetry lovers in all of your students! Through this unit, students will take part in understanding the elements of poetry by familiarizing themselves with the royal family of poetry: King Meter, Queen Stanza, and Princess Poem.Here's what this set includes:Background Info on the Elements of PoetryCol
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3rd - 5th
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Taylor Swift Lyrics Coloring Page Bookmark Set {VERSION 1}
There are 8 unique bookmarks in this set. Each one features lyrics from Taylor Swift songs. They are fully black and white so that students can color them! Version 2 can be found here.Click here to follow me!
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Taylor Swift Lyrics Coloring Page Bookmark BUNDLE
The PATRIOTIC COLLECTION of Color-Chord-inated Songs for Bells or Boomwhackers
This set includes seven familiar USA patriotic songs, perfect for creating a themed unit and performance, celebrating patriotic holidays (Veteran's Day, Presidents' Day, Flag Day, Fourth of July), tying into social studies lessons, using as literacy fluency activities, or enriching musical exploration of meter, form, chords and melody. Printable or projectable song pages, instructions, teaching guidelines, and some programming suggestions are included.
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K - 8th
The Day the Crayons Quit original music performance program
Using the children's book, "The Day the Crayons Quit" (readily available at Amazon.com; not included), get a performance piece ready with your students! Seven original pieces are included with Orff instrument accompaniment that is readily accessible elementary aged students. The pdf includes 13 pages. This is a delightful book and the original songs are pitched for success!
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2nd - 5th
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Christmas Play Script - Holly the Christmas Elf
A funny Christmas play that revolves around Holly the Elf. After being accidentally taken to the North Pole one Christmas Eve, she stayed until adulthood and grew up thinking she was an elf herself. One day she found out she was a human, and decided to go and visit her biological father.On arrival she wasn’t welcomed by her father but soon the family grew to like Holly, and she also found a boyfriend. But then everything changed when she fell out with her father and she decided to leave.However,
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: A Bundle of Four Christmas Play Scripts
Figurative Speech Through Music: Red by Taylor Swift
All students love music, so why not integrate figurative speech with popular music? This lesson has students listen to or watch the Taylor Swift performance of her song "Red" while searching for similes and metaphors in figurative language. This lesson is engaging and helps students understand what inferencing and figurative speech is. Students will analyze the inferences of the lyrics. A student sheet and an answer key is provided. This can be a whole class or literacy center activity. This
Language Arts Songs to Today's Hit Music
This is a bundle of all 10 of my core language arts songs! Point of view song, theme song, text structures song, text features song, fact and opinion song, main idea song, plot song, compare and contrast song, context clues song, author's purpose song, and theme song!Songs Included:Main Idea- written to Let it Go from FrozenPlot- written to Sorry by Justin BieberCompare and Contrast- written to Shake it Off by Taylor SwiftFact and Opinion- written to Old Town Road by Lil Nas XContext Clues- writ
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3rd - 6th
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Fluency Song Lyrics - Teach Fluency with Real Music!
Kids love music so why not teach them an essential part of reading while also exposing them to older music, different genres, and text structure? All of my fluency song lyrics are real songs, and are kid tested and approved (seriously, throughout the year they will continually ask me to play our old fluency songs).Throughout a single week, kids will read the lyrics to one song and hear that song every single day. They will have to read the lyrics to that song on screen while also keeping up with
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2nd - 5th
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Reading Fluency Poems, Songs, & Quotes for Upper Grades
Do your students struggle with fluency? Reading Fluency Passages are great for Upper Grade students. Printables and digital links are included! This resource is a collection of poems, songs, quotes, and speeches. Students focus on reading fluency as they learn American History. Students work on repeated reading and memorizing poetry. Great for small group instruction, whole group, remote learning, or blended learning. ⭐️Printable and includes a Google Link! ⭐️Common Core Anchor Reading Stand
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Fluency Passages Bundle (Distance Learning)
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
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- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
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