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Critical thinking close reading songs
"Firework" by Katy Perry Poetry Terms Figurative Language Activities
Figurative Language and Poetic Devices/Poetry Terms Identification using Katy Perry's "Firework"Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which devices you'd like your students to find.Updated to include additional exercises for more in-depth learning and making connections to the text! Those I've pointed out in this exercise include:alliteration, anaphora, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
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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Sight Word Songs : A GROWING BUNDLE Sight Word Practice Heart Words
Here are all my Instagram and Tik Tok sight word songs! In this bundle you will get:Sight word slides (in big, bold print): look, what, for, I, for, said, was, you, they, down, my, the, are, and the vowel cheer that I createdSlides that have the lyrics written so students / teachers can read and sing alongMy voice recording on each slide that pairs with the sight word + lyric slides so you don't have to sing or memorize these songs!YouTube links so you can have students watch me on YouTube as an
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K - 3rd
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Analyzing Fahrenheit 451 Through Music Unit - 20+ Songs, Analysis Activities
What better way to connect students with literature than through the music they love? In this novel study for Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, students will be able to analyze each part of the novel by listening to, annotating, explaining, and presenting different songs that closely correlate with the novel on many levels. Beat the boredom of study guides and chapter quizzes, and instead engage your students through music to help them analyze—and appreciate—this classic Bradbury work.This engagin
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8th - 11th
Song Analysis Bundle - Identity and Social Change
This bundle includes my song analysis resources Songs For Social Change, and Songs to Explore Identity, which both contain a PDF and digital student notebook and Google Slides with clickable links to all of the music videos for the songs. Resources: (Linked below - please check out the individual product listings for more information and previews)- Songs For Social Change- Songs to Explore Identity****************************************Customer Tips:Be the first to know about my new discounts,
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7th - 12th
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Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom {Bundled Set}
Need strategies to promote critical thinking in your music room? Want to encourage 21st century learning? This is a bundle of six different products. Save over 20% by purchasing them as a bundled set! This bundled set includes:
*Discussion starters: Includes sheets for each concept you would teach for each grade level, as well as a sheet for various concepts/ skills. The sheets are formatted so that you can check off the questions as you use them in your lessons, and teacher notes are included
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K - 5th
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Paired Passage- Poetry, Song Lyric Questions for "Mother to Son" and "Dear Mama"
This assignment is a set of 8 response questions for a paired reading of "Mother to Son" poem by Langston Hughes and "Dear Mama" song by Tupac Shakur. Poem and song lyrics are not included due to copyright restrictions, but can easily be found online.
Each question asks for a written response that includes text evidence. I suggest using this as a two-day activity in which students spend the first day doing close-readings of both the poem and the song lyrics, and the second day spent writing the
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8th - 11th
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Hamilton Rhetorical Analysis
Introduce your students to the magic of the Hamilton musical, and the rhetorical strategies found within. This product focuses on two songs: "Cabinet Battle #1" and "Cabinet Battle #2." Within these songs, your students will analyze the rhetorical strategies used, including appeals such as Ethos, Logos, and Pathos, as well as common fallacies.
***DUE TO COPYRIGHT LAWS, THE SONG LYRICS ARE NOT PROVIDED. I have included a cheat sheet of common rhetorical strategies in place of that, and it is h
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9th - 12th
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CHRISTMAS SONG ANALYSIS [ASSIGNMENTS & PROJECTS] [MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL EDITION]
Are you stumped about what to do with students for the week(s) prior to the Winter Break? Don't worry about it! Let them analyze Christmas/Holiday music! The Christmas Song Analysis& Projects product for middle and high schoolers dispels the end of year chaos for you and adds excitement for them. This product has 6 PROJECTS and assignments, 17 songs with videos, lyrics provided to display on your Promethean OR for annotations, worksheets for the songs in the product, and a general set of que
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: THE CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY BUNDLE
Figurative Language with Encanto's Surface Pressure song
Use the popular song "Surface Pressure" from Disney's Encanto to teach and review figurative language. This song contains so many examples of figurative language: idioms, similes, metaphors, onomatopeias, and hyperboles.Includes a whole group activity with the song and also task cards for student independent practice. Includes answer key for task cards.
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2nd - 7th
On Top of Spaghetti Printable Mini Book (Emergent Reader)
Thanks for your interest in my sing and read mini book (emergent reader),On Top of Spaghetti!Simply print pages 4 – 9, cut along the mid-page line, and staple together to create a book for your students. These “take home” style books are such a great way to help children make literacy connections both at school and at home. I read my large, laminated, color classroom book over and over throughout the week. Once children are familiar with the text and images, I send home one of these mini boo
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PreK - K
Movie Guide made for Moana & CCSS Targeted Mini Lesson Plan Bundle | SAVE 35%
This Moana Movie Guide & CCSS Targeted Mini Lesson Plan Bundle allows teachers the flexibility to focus in on individual song scenes or music videos. The CCSS targeted lesson plan works well as full movie teaser or a stand alone option if schedules don't allow enough time to watch the full movie. Check each individual movie guide posting for sample questions and details : )★You're In Good Hands★Although this movie guide doesn't have many ratings yet, please don't be overly concerned as it wa
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SIGHT WORD BUNDLE!! - Incredible discounts!
Importance of Teaching Sight Words in Early Education:Sight words play a crucial role in early literacy development for several reasons:Building Fluency: By recognizing sight words instantly, students can read more fluently and with better comprehension.Enhancing Vocabulary: Sight words often include high-frequency words that are commonly used in written text, expanding students' vocabulary.Improving Reading Confidence: Mastery of sight words boosts students' confidence in their reading abilitie
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PreK - 3rd
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Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom {Kindergarten}
Need strategies to promote critical thinking in your Kindergarten music room? Want to encourage 21st century learning? This set includes discussion starters, visuals, art starters, and more!
Click HERE to save over 20% by buying this with my Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom Bundled Set.
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*Discussion starters: Several questions are included for each of the following concepts: loud/quiet, fast/slow, beat, high/low, and rhythm, as well as a page of questions for various
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Critical Thinking in the Music Classroom {Bundled Set}
Character Analysis - Sing Movie Characters - Google Slides with Film Clips
The movie Sing provides the perfect text for character analysis. Each character experiences their own journey of self-discovery and self-actualization.In this task, students will examine three characters in depth:Rosita, the pig, a housewife, who dreams of singing and of being appreciated and seen by her family.Johnny, the gorilla, the son of mobster, who does want to follow in his father's footsteps into a life of crime, and wants to be loved and accepted as a singer.Ash, the porcupine, the reb
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6th - 12th
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"Coming of Age" Song Analysis Activity
Students will select from a variety of pre-selected songs geared toward the "Coming of Age" and "Value of Work" unit. With a partner, they will explore and analyze the lyrics to find theme, symbols, figurative language, and more. Then, they will create an album cover representing their analysis. This lesson will take 1 hour, however, it can be extended into another day (included with directions). This includes: >Written directions for students for the {Guided Portion} {Song Analysis} {Album C
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7th - 11th
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Eminem Lose Yourself Poetic Devices
Practice identifying poetic/literary devices with the first section of Eminem's "Lose Yourself" - students LOVE this! They especially begin to understand identifying different types of rhyme and assonance, areas that in traditional poems are often hard to identify.If you like this, please see my Plot and Character presentation materials, suitable for 9th and 10th graders.
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8th - 11th
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Reading Fluency Passages Bundle (Distance Learning)
Reading Fluency Passages for Upper Grades is a collection of poems, songs, quotes, and speeches that teach about America’s history as students focus on reading fluency. Common Core Anchor Reading Standards posters can also be used to remind students of the strategies they are using while working on their fluency. Poems by Robert Frost and songs about westward expansion help students understand about different time periods and introduce them to many different vocabulary words. Students learn to r
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3rd - 6th
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Encanto & Moana Mock STAAR 2.0 EOC w/ Google Form (all 3 essay types included)
This product is a MOCK EOC English STAAR Exam. It includes 45 questions that are from 1 song from Moana, 1 song from Encanto, 1 paired selection, 1 Non Fiction Opinion Piece, 1 revise & edit section, 1 persuasive prompt, and 1 expository prompt. Both STAAR versions are included in the pdf. STAAR 1.0 and 2.0 have their separate ready to go exam with answer keys included. Both also come with a link for each version for a Google form for online or virtual testing.
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7th - 12th
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Sing and Read Emergent Reader Mini Book
Thanks for your interest in my sing and read mini book (emergent reader), Peanut Butter and Jelly! I have found this particular mini book works well with preschool age children, but I have also had success using it with younger kindergarten age students struggling with literacy concepts. Simply print pages 4 – 9, cut along the mid-page line, and staple together to create a book for your students. These “take home” style books are such a great way to help children make literacy connections bot
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PreK - K
Spanish Song Activities - De colores
Are you looking for Spanish songs for your literacy block, circle time, morning meeting, or poems unit? With this resource you will be able to teach your class the song De colores through a variety of hands-on activities. ALL PARTS OF THIS PRODUCT ARE IN SPANISHThis unit includes:Projectable Song Lyrics - paper and digitalSong Cards - perfect for a pocket chart center or independent literacy stationClose Reading Activity Song Mini Book Song CraftLooking for more Spanish song resources? Check out
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Spanish Song Activities BUNDLE
Song Analysis Handout - Example Song Included "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Use this song analysis handout with students to critically think about a song and its lyrics, while reinforcing the elements of close reading and literature. The song anaylsis worksheet is blank and can be used with any song, but the song "Life Every Voice and Sing" (AKA The Black National Anthem) is included. I've used this handout in English and Social Studies classes grades 7-12, but it could probably be used with lower grades also.
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Not Grade Specific
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