Reading Skills: Lesson Plan for Visualization and Imagery
Do you have students who HATE to read for enjoyment, or loath independent reading time? More often than not, these students lack an important skill: …
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Teaching Sensory Details in Writing
When students are writing descriptions in stories, narratives, or even poetry, they should use sensory details to bring the setting alive and make it …
Continue ReadingUtilizing Music and Songs in the Classroom
Adding music to an English lesson stimulates student’s minds and grabs their attention. Students connect to the lesson through one of their interests. …
Continue ReadingAssigning a Self-Evaluation Essay: Interesting High School Essay Topic
Teach students how to write a good self-evaluation with this essay guide and teaching tips.
Continue ReadingPoetry Analysis Websites: Find Famous Poets at Poets.org
Famous poets at the web’s top poetry analysis website, Poets.org.
Continue ReadingIntroduction to Poetry: Narrative Poetry Definition, Lyric Poetry Definition
This introduction to poetry includes a narrative poetry definition, a lyric poetry definition.
Continue ReadingTeaching Concrete & Dramatic Poetry: Teaching Ideas
Tired of reading poems about death and love that have no rhyme scheme, rhythm, meter, or common sense? Experiment with concrete and dramatic forms of …
Continue ReadingCelebrate National Poetry Month by Throwing a Poetry Party!
Help your students develop a love of poetry with this lesson on the different forms of poetry. Children can’t get into the party without sharing …
Continue ReadingWriting Poetry Lesson Plans: Writing a Poem with Meter in Poetry and Structure in Poetry
If you use these writing poetry lesson plans, you won’t want to remove your brain from your cranium with a corkscrew after reading student …
Continue ReadingHow to Make a Flier: Advertising Lesson Plan
Academic writing does not always take into account real world writing techniques. This advertising lesson plan on how to make a flier does and …
Continue ReadingActivities for Teaching Quatrain Poems
Poetry quatrains can be fun to write. Focus on the poetic devices of alliteration, hyperbole and onomatopoeia. Students will write quirky and …
Continue ReadingLesson Plan on Writing Rhyming Couplets for Teaching Couplets
Use this couplets activity to start a fun poetry unit. Poetry does not have to be somber and serious. It can be quite fun and cute.
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