Teaching 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 …
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Celebrate 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.
Continue ReadingTeaching How to Write a Setset and Sestets Poems
Poems have stanzas, and a sestet is one such type. Try this lesson that teaches students how to write a sestet and focuses on rhyme pattern or rhyme …
Continue ReadingEasy Watercolor Art Project for Fall or Spring: Leaves or Flowers
This easy watercolor painting project can be done in the fall or the spring using similar watercolor painting techniques. The students will find it …
Continue ReadingHarry Potter Websites & Webquest Questions: Research Activity on Harry Potter
Hop on the Hogwarts Express to learning fun with Harry Potter webhunt questions. Send your students on an educational webquest.
Continue ReadingTeaching How to Write a Biography: Lesson PLan
Teach students how to write a biography of a favorite historical figure or fictional character with this lesson plan.
Continue ReadingHistory Lesson Plan for Middle School: Interesting Facts About George Washington
Take your middle school students on a tour into Anerican history to learn about George Washington. They may learn a new way to look at the actions of …
Continue ReadingHistory Lesson Plan for Middle School: World War II Food Rationing
While the soldiers were fighting courageously overseas, US citizens dealt with food rationing among other things on the home front. Students will …
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