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Common Core RL.5.4 lessons for Gifted and Talented
The Black Stallion Unit | Novel Study with Questions, Vocabulary, Choice Boards
Take your students on an adventure with a timeless adventure novel: The Black Stallion, by Walter Farley. This unit includes questions, vocabulary, writing, and choice boards. Open the preview to take a closer look.Questions: Students construct responses for two prompts after every two chapters of The Black Stallion. This component includes an overview; a response planning sheet; modeling mini posters; four worksheets on describing events, settings, or characters; one worksheet on determining po
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4th - 5th
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Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg Poem Analysis Poetry Writing CCSS Exemplar Text
If your students don't like to write poetry, let's change their minds together! Using Carl Sandburg's "Theme in Yellow" as a mentor text, we'll analyze the poem and then use it to help students write their own poem. This poem is wonderful to analyze because of its rich imagery. To capitalize on that, we'll use images to enrich the experience.Although you can use this resource at any time, this poem is perfect for fall classroom discussion. If you're looking for something perfect for pumpkins and
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
A Bird Came Down the Walk Emily Dickinson Read Poetry Aloud Oral Reading
Reading poetry out loud can be easy if you know the tips and tricks! This lesson uses Emily Dickinson's poem "A Bird Came Down the Walk" to teach oral reading of poetry. It's an often overlooked standard, but no more! Your students will use these skills for years to come.You'll get a fabulous "How to Read a Poem Aloud" tip sheet that you'll come back to again and again.Students will use this along with a planning sheet for "A Bird Came Down the Walk" to prepare to read the poem aloud.Students wi
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
STEAM STEM CATS, CATS, CATS Across the Curriculum for GATE
Shouldn’t your 21st Century classroom be just like today’s virtual world? In other words, shouldn’t it be full of cats?!
We’ve got reading cats. We’ve got writing cats. We’ve got poetry cats. We’ve got math cats. We’ve got science and engineering cats. We’ve got graphic design, art, critical thinking, and creativity cats. We’ve got all kinds of cats across the curriculum! There are 7 lessons in all here—representing 7 to 10 hours (maybe even more) of class time. They are appropriate fo
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3rd - 6th
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Poetry "The Echoing Green" William Blake Close Reading CCSS Text Exemplar
If you would like to lead a high-quality discussion of William Blake's "The Echoing Green," this resource is for you! It's quick but powerful, and addresses figurative language standards, as well as poetry analysis standards. Yea for short lessons that accomplish a ton!You'll get original illustrated versions of the poem, as well as an optional activity that invites students to analyze the poem through the lens of two paintings (one's a Monet!).William Blake's poem is fun to analyze because it s
Grades:
5th - 10th
Also included in:Â Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
POETRY like a PRO - Analysis and Writing for 4th through 8th and GATE
You will find yourself going home and bragging about the results to whoever will listen. Everything is right here so you can begin today!
Poetry analysis and writing are two of the most difficult and elusive areas to teach. But there is method to the madness. I’ve found a method that works, and you don’t have to be a passionate poet to pull it off.
If you are a good listener, if you keep asking questions, if you show you value students’ comments and insights, this analysis and writing tec
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4th - 8th
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Poetry Break! - No Prep Poetry Mini-Unit - Distance Learning - Google and PDF
Great for distance learning! This resource has been fully updated in 2021 to include Google Slides versions of all the student sheets!Celebrate Valentine's Day with poetry! This Poetry Break! features three poems - two by Christina Rossetti and one by Robert Frost. All deal with the theme of love in an approachable way that is totally appropriate for 3rd - 6th graders. Each poem has suggestions for teaching and analysis, helping you put together a lesson on the fly - just print and teach or
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3rd - 6th
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Fever 1793 Literature Unit
This is a complete literature unit which includes higher level comprehension questions, critical thinking novel activies and project based assessments.
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5th - 7th
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"Chitterchat" |Synonyms |Prelutsky Poem |No Prep! |Print & Digital |Halloween
Feline familiars and scatterbrained shrews. What's a poet to do?!"Chitterchat" by Jack Prelutsky is a great poem to build and challenge student vocabulary and practice word deciphering techniques. It also provides a witty resource for practicing and analyzing synonyms in a fun new way!Considering its focus on a witch and her cat familiar, it could also be a great resource around Halloween time.This is a great option for a:- mini-lesson, - self-led learning, - classroom discussion, - small grou
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4th - 8th
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"I Told the Wizard to His Face" |Synonyms |Prelutsky Poem |No Prep! |One & Done!
Wizards and hamsters and insults, oh my!"I Told the Wizard to His Face" by Jack Prelutsky is a great poem to build and challenge student vocabulary and practice word deciphering techniques. It also provides a goofy resource for learning some challenging synonyms in a fun new way!Considering it's focus on a wizard, it could be a great resource around Halloween time.This is a great option for a:- mini-lesson, - self-led learning, - classroom discussion, - small group work, - virtual instruction o
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4th - 8th
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