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6th grade english language arts songs under $5
End of the Year Playlist - Fun Writing Activity - Printable & Digital - Spotify
Wrap up the school year with a bang! Make those final days memorable and meaningful for your secondary students: MUSIC! Let the rhythm of music carry your students through reflection and celebration as they select 5 songs to encapsulate their school year journey:✅ A song for my friends✅ A song for my teachers✅ A song for my favorite class✅ A song for my favorite memory this year✅ A song to motivate me for next yearStudents can even get creative and craft their own categories using the handy blan
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6th - 9th
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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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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
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
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
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost — Poem Analysis, The Outsiders Activity
This lesson is a poem analysis of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. This is a perfect side activity for the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton!This activity also works on its own if you are looking just to teach about the poem itself. Your students don't have to be reading The Outsiders.In Chapter 5 of The Outsiders, Ponyboy recites the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." This poem plays a major role in the novel as it represents the universal message to stay gold and stay pure. Have your stud
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: The Outsiders Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
Schoolhouse Rock! Grammar Rock Lyric Fill-In-the-Blank
In this resource, you get all 9 Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock songs in an easy to print, fill-in-the-blank style format to use with your students.You will get:A Noun is a Person, Place or ThingBusy PrepositionsConjunction JunctionInterjections!Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Pronouns)The Tale of Mister Morton (Subject/Predicate)Unpack Your AdjectivesVerb! That's What Happenin'My students watch the video first. Then, I gave them the paper to fill in the blanks as t
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Schoolhouse Rock Bundle (Grammar and America) Fill-In Activities
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
Bilingual Christmas Carols / Villancicos Navideños ~ Spanish-English Songbook
Add to your Christmas Around the World unit with this Spanish and English Christmas Carols (Villancicos de Navidad) Song Book: These bilingual Christmas carols are perfect for Spanish or ESL classes to get in the holiday spirit! We have chosen the most popular and common Christmas carols, so that most kids will be familiar with the tunes. The song book contains 10 traditional songs in both Spanish and English, and 4 additional songs in Spanish, for a total of 14 songs:
Rudolph the Red Nosed Rei
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1st - 12th
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Standards Based Mini-Lesson: Analyzing impact of dialogue
WAIT! You can purchase this product as part of my READING BUNDLE #1 for a discounted price! Check it out:
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This mini-lesson uses the song "Just Give Me a Reason" by Pink to teach the following ELA Reading Literary Text Standard:
ANALYZE HOW PARTICULAR LINES OF DIALOGUE OR INCIDENTS IN A STORY PROPEL THE ACTION, REVEAL ASPECTS OF A CHARACTER OR PROVOKE A DECISION.
Students will learn more than just the basics of how to write dialogue-- t
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6th - 12th
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"Thriller": Citing Textual Evidence, Conflict, Theme and Video Analysis
Just in time for Halloween, students will love interacting with Michael Jackson's classic "Thriller" as they:
•Make inferences from the text and cite textual evidence to support inferences.
•Analyze the development of theme through the analysis of plot, setting, characters, and conflict.
•Compare and contrast the lyrics and video adaption of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.7
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"Thriller" Mini Lesson is licensed under a Creative Common
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6th - 9th
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Hip Hop Main Idea and Supporting Details Passage Worksheets 6th and 7th Grade
Based on a history of Hip Hop and rap music song, these main idea and supporting details passage worksheets for 6th and 7th grade include multiple-choice questions, extension activities, and graphic organizers. Students will listen to the song then use the song's lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.What teachers like you had to say:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My students struggle with identifying central idea. This is a great resource to supplement those skills." – Austin H.This act
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6th - 8th
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Do You Know These Letter Sounds? (follow along pages)
Here are two pages that I created for my students to help them master the alphabet sounds. I print out both pages for each of my students. I glue them on a piece of construction paper (front & back). I then laminate them and pass them out to each student when we practice our sounds. I play the song Alphabet Sounds by Barbara Milne and have my students touch the letters and pictures as they sing along. I have found that especially students, with English as a second language (all grades), mas
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PreK - 6th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Identifying theme and tone using paired readings
Check out the updated version of this assignment.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mother-to-Son-and-Dear-Mama-Paired-Reading-3835433
Students will identify the theme and tone using "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes and "Dear Mama" by Tupac Shakur.
Movin' and Groovin' Music Vocabulary Words
Here are 40 basic music vocabulary words set to music and movement. I have created all of these over many years and use them every single day in my classroom! I have the words listed and how to sing, dance and move your way into understanding these words. My students love to perform these and firmly planted the meanings into their understanding because of the actions tied in with the words. I have several other resources on this site that go with this list. There are two packages of "Music
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3rd - 6th
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Grammar Basic Parts of Speech Songs/Chants
Get your students up and singing with these 8 grammar songs! These chants will help your students learn the basic parts of speech. They are highly engaging and great to mix up your grammar instruction. Singing songs can help convert information into long term memory. Your students won't forget the parts of speech with these fun and engaging songs!Included are:nounsverbsadjectivesadverbspronounsinterjectionsconjunctionsprepositionsYou will receive a pdf with all 8 songs. These can be used as lyri
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Grammar Games and Songs Bundle
Summarizing Theme in Poetry with Song Lyrics
A great way to teach poetry is through song lyrics students know! Practice summarizing theme in poetry with this worksheet.
Teach students to identify poetry with a real life application and inspire them to develop a love for it at the same time!
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4th - 6th
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Long Live by Taylor Swift Poetry Analysis
During a poetry unit, it’s pretty easy for students to get lost. That’s why I created this resource. Students will complete a poetry analysis of the song “Long Live” by Taylor Swift. Students will analyze the following components of a poem: theme, speaker, word choice, imagery, figurative language, and tone. Once students complete the poetry analysis, it may be helpful to have them conduct their own poetry analysis reviewing figurative language. In the product, I have also included a figurative
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4th - 12th
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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
Finding Figurative Language and Meaning in a Song: Happy by Pharrell
Using the song and lyrics of "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, students will explore the meaning and figurative language within the song.
This activity prompts students to engage with a hit song while looking for literary devices and figurative language. It includes finding examples with:
-similes
-metaphors
-personification
-alliteration
-theme/meaning
A very fun and engaging way for students to practice their figurative language!
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4th - 7th
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Science Poems and Songs about Energy Flow through Food Webs and Ecosystems
Poetry is a rhythmic way to help students familiarize themselves with new science words while also working on everyday vocabulary, rhyming words, and word families. This poem was written to complement any life science unit about the energy flow in ecosystems and the parts of that system. Students practice science vocabulary while learning to read fluently.
Although this type of activity is helpful for English Language Learners because of the repeated vocabulary practice, all students benefit f
Beatles Lyrics Figurative Language
Beatles Lyrics Figurative Language
Fun! This is a real hit with kids and one of my best sellers!
Play some Beatles tunes prior to giving your students these lyrics. They have to identify each example as a hyperbole, personification, simile or metaphor.
Activity sheets include one line from the songs. Students have to identify the figurative speech each one is.
You'll have kids rocking and rolling all day long! This is one lesson they won't forget!
Good for grades 5 and up.
List of songs l
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5th - 12th
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Thanksgiving Music Lesson: "We Are Thankful" Song with Orff and Kodaly Lesson
Sing and play this meaningful Thanksgiving song "We Are Thankful", which expresses gratitude for the Pilgrims, trees, body, families and friends and touch the hearts of parents, staff and students. Perfect for a Thanksgiving music program, Classroom Thanksgiving Feast. Elementary and Music Classrooms. Orff and Kodaly applications, Mp3 files.*Please see the preview to read the lyrics and the description. The lyrics reflect gratitude for the Pilgrims.Resource IncludesPower point and PDF files.She
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K - 6th
Also included in: November Elementary Music Class Lesson Bundle of Music Activities K-6
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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.
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