Students explore what Carol Jago calls the place "where life and art intersect" by reading Nikki Giovanni's poem, "Nikki-Rosa," and then writing about childhood memories of their own.
Students investigate the effects of word choice in Robert Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" to construct a more sophisticated understanding of speaker, subject, and tone.
Students select what they believe to be the most important word in a text that they have read and justify their choice using examples from the text.
Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery to describe a color.
Pat Mora's poem "Echoes" demonstrates that our senses are powerful tools for literary analysis and comprehension as students use their senses to discover new ways to read and write.
This resource contains an abundance of ELA infused, cross-curricular lessons organized by themes for Grades 4, 5 and 6. Non-fiction, poetry and fiction reading lessons are all included.
This unit introduces students to a variety of poetic forms and elements, as they compile their own collections of poetry.
Students use themed graphic organizers to compose cinquain poems on topics common in the early elementary classroom.
Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
Students write poems using rhyme and meter as they come to understand the mechanical concept of rhythm, based on the principle of oscillation, in a broader biological and cultural context, as seen in dance and sports, poetry and other literary forms, and communication in general. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world â concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, momentum, friction, stress and tension.
The goal of this project is for students to create their own iSpy Writing submission, whilst learning about theme, poetry, rhyme scheme, grammar and the editing process. This guide takes students through the writing process step-by-step and create a comprehensive and student inspired project! This will take about 3-4 hours of classroom time.
Students will analyze verse and explore meaning by creating a visual poem.
Students create poetry collections with the theme of ńgetting to know each other.î They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
This amazing site is full of posts, favourite information, teachings, songs, maps and so much more - all related to preserving and learning the Cree language.
Students explore the idea of crossing boundaries through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.
Sushi, anime, Hello Kitty Đ these are a few of the most well-known products that have become symbolic of Japan. However, sushi is a delicacy and therefore not something that most Japanese eat daily, the popularity of anime varies across the country, and not everyone is a zealous Hello Kitty fan. The purpose of these activities, then, is to go beyond the stereotypes often associated with these popular products and examine aspects of Japanese culture that reveal fundamental values in Japanese society. Specifically, the primary sources chosen here all reflect careful attention to detail and presentation as well as efficient, thoughtful, and creative use of limited time and space. The classroom activities that go along with the primary sources have been designed to help young students recognize similarities and differences between Japanese culture and their own.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review writing poetry, including rhyming schemes and rhythm.
The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the use of special features of poetry, with many examples. The accompanying handout gives practice at identifying the metre and rhyme of various poems.
The purpose of this video lesson to review the steps in writing a Tanka poem, and to draft, revise and publish a Tanka poem.
The purpose of the video lesson is review what a tanka poem is, look at examples of tanka poems and have students write tanka poems of their own.