Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - May 8, 2024

                                                                                        

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Sharpen Your Brain with Two May-Themed Crosswords Answers Begin with "May" - $2.85

by Scipi

7th - 10th grades

Activities, Handouts, Printables

Challenge your mind and expand your vocabulary with these two May-themed crossword puzzles. Both are free form crossword puzzles that feature the same 20 different terms related to May and some of its holidays and traditions. To make solving the puzzles less difficult while keeping the activity engaging, all the answers to both puzzles begin with the word “May”. 

Main Idea Category Game - $1.99

by Reading Spotlight

3rd - 6th grades

Activities

                                                                             

Are you looking for some crazzzzzy fun for the whole class at the end of the school year—something that is simple, effective, and easy to use? This category game is an enjoyable and helpful way to get students thinking in broad terms about main idea & supporting details. It helps to ingrain the metacognitive structure of an important reading strategy; it is also useful in improving verbal communication skills. 112 categories and complete instructions for easy classroom use are included. Enjoy the learning and the smiles!

Pretty Darn Fast Poetry Analysis Study Guide - $3.50

by Charlene Tess

10th - 12th grades

Study Guides, Handouts

A fast, unique, and highly effective way to analyze poetry. It will also help students prepare for advanced English courses in both high school and college. I devised this method to help students who have trouble remembering all the elements of poetry. I hope it helps your students as much as it helped mine.

Summer Picture Writing Prompts with Beach Theme - $4.00

by Kamp Kindergarten

K - 2nd grades

Printables, Independent Work Packet, Centers

These summer themed ink saving no-prep printable beach picture writing prompts are great for literacy centers, ELA journals, or independent work. There are 20 different picture prompts in this packet. There is a line art picture, word bank, and a writing lines section on each page. Three versions of writing lines are included for each picture prompt to meet the needs of multiple grade levels and to offer differentiation opportunities within in a single grade or a special education classroom. 

All Students Deserve An End Of The Year Award Editable Set - $4.00 

by Mickey's Place

All grades

Printables, Classroom Forms, For Parents

Every Child Deserves an End of the Year Award Editable Version is a set of 34 awards for teachers to use to celebrate their students learning. All awards come in color and black and white.

To use these awards type in the names and dates then print out the awards you wish to use.

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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The Broken-Winged Bird: Musings on Poetry & Complex Text

Hold fast to dreams...

"I think he's wearing a mask in the this poem. You know, like he's acting one way, but underneath he's really mad."  INSERT TEACHER GOOSEBUMPS HERE! Just like a marathon runner craves her once-a-week-long-run endorphins, I crave these teaching moments. I know you know what I'm talking about.  This teacher endorphin rush came at a critical point in my teaching week. I was having one of those weeks. You know the ones...when you feel like you're slogging through curriculum quicksand while being attacked by biting horseflies. And then he raised his hand.  And I called on him. And it was as if someone had just handed me a flyswatter and a leg up.

For if dreams die | Life is a broken-winged bird | That cannot fly...

 So how did we get there? Let's go back to that marathon analogy. It took some training.  Some brain training.  It began with one poem and a close read.  I introduced "Dreams" by Langston Hughes to my students by reading it 4-5 times together.  Each time, we looked and listened for something new. Poetry is an oral art, so most of the reading we did together was oral.  The last part of the close read was silent. What happens with this approach is that students eventually zero
in on the poet's figurative language and imagery.  This time was no different. My students picked out the phrases "Life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly" and "Life is a barren field frozen with snow." This was the
opportunity I had planned for. I asked the question, "Why do you think Langston Hughes chose those particular images? What is he trying to tell us?"  Those questions led to discussions about negative and positive imagery and a vocabulary exploration about the word barren.  I was also able to reintroduce metaphor to my kids.

Hold fast to dreams...

The next day, we returned to "Dreams."  I think that percolation time is crucial when using complex text with students. What do I mean by this?  Think about a cup of coffee. If you pour it before it's done brewing, it's not a good cup of coffee. It's weak. It might even have some grounds in it, right? It's the same with thinking.  When I read a chapter from a good book and stop for the day, I don't stop interacting with that text.  I think about it over the next 24 hours until I can return to it.  I continue to make meaning while I'm absent from the text. It's no different for my students.

This time, we explored "Dreams" using the CSI routine. CSI stands for Color-Symbol-Image. This thinking routine from Making Thinking Visible (Ritchart, Morrison & Church) is a powerhouse for metaphorical thinking.  We talked about what color we would assign this poem. This led to conversations about mood and what words or phrases contributed to the overall feeling of the poem. Next, we went to image.  What images come to mind when we read this?  My students illustrated the "movie in the mind" visualizations they had from reading it.  Finally, we talked about symbols.  Students created a unique symbol that they felt represented Hughes' message to us. This was not the first time we had used this routine, so I did very little modeling with it like I had previously.

A little more percolation time and it was day three of our unit.  This time, we put ourselves in Langston Hughes' shoes.  We tried to step inside his perspective. One of my favorite things to do with poetry is to think about a poet as a character.  His poems tell us an awful lot about him as a person.  Together, we explored what Hughes' view of the world might be based on his poem.  We used the Step Inside thinking routine for this.

For if dreams go | Life is a barren field | Frozen with snow.

                                                                               ---Langston Hughes

The above are the steps we followed for four of Langston Hughes' poems: "Dreams," "Dream Deferred," "Dream Boogie," and "Dream Keeper."  Each time we explored a new poem, we made comparisons. We began developing a theory about Langston Hughes, using a Theory Tree.  We charted words and phrases from his poems and then asked ourselves, "What does this BIG picture of Hughes' writing tell us about him as a person?"  and "How did he look at life?" and "Do I agree with his perspective?"  This might seem like a triple-decker club sandwich that an 11 year old fifth grader can't get her mouth around.  But, it works. I think it works because I use a slow-release workshop model. That is, I model first.  Then, we work with the support of peers. And finally, we try it independently and report back.  I have found that when students are supported through complex text in this way, we hit a comprehension home run more often than not.

As we continued on through our literature studies about Civil Rights, we went on to use Hughes' poems as mentor texts that connected with the novel and picture books we were reading.  Be sure to stay tuned for more about those connections in the following weeks.

Remember that movie "Field of Dreams?" There's a line in it that keeps pushing me to go deeper in my teaching.  It's this, "If you build it, they will come."  And, they do.

He always ends his poems with a microphone drop. You know what I mean?  Like if we were listening to him recite them, he'd drop the microphone at the end, and we'd be like, 'Wow!'

                                                                                  ---Fifth grade boy in room 9

If you're interested in trying this unit out for yourself, it would be a perfect fit for 5th-7th graders; it's available now, complete with teacher notes, organizers, poems, posters and student response pages. Click on this picture:

You might also be interested in these:

If you're interested in some ideas on getting started with incorporating poetry in your reader's workshop, be sure to check out the link below. It provides some ways to begin. Click the picture!

This month, I'm linking up with some fabulous educators.  Check out their posts below! You won't be sorry.

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

Poppies, Pantoums & Critical Thinking with Georgia O'Keefe



It had been a long week- two nights of student-led conferences, a teacher evaluation meeting with my administrator. Add finishing report cards to that mix and preparation for MStep, and I had survived the perfect storm.  Needless to say, we were tired.  I needed to do something that would make our hearts sing.  My students needed it, too!

So, I introduced my third and fourth graders to Georgia's paintings.  Georgia O'Keefe makes my heart sing.  I began by sharing a short mini-biography I had authored, and then I read aloud My Name is Georgia by Jeanette Winter.  This delightful picture book is a biography of Georgia O'Keefe. From the time she was just a young girl, Georgia O'Keeffe saw the world differently than those around her.  While other girls wore braids and played with toys, Georgia practiced her drawing.  She let her hair flow free.  Georgia followed her love of art throughout her life. This book shows how Georgia followed her dream of becoming an artist and shared her unique vision of the world.

After sharing the book and some examples of O'Keefe's art I found on the internet, I showed my students some photographs of natural subjects. The photos were close ups, not unlike Georgia's flowers.  We went through each photo, using the visible thinking move "See-Think-Wonder."  Using this thinking routine elevated my student's responses.    Using this routine, I first asked students to respond orally to a photo selected by me. I recorded their responses on our class response chart paper. Then I showed the other photographs and had students use "See-Think-Wonder" to discuss the photos in their small table groups.  Finally, students used a "See-Think-Wonder" graphic organizer to reflect on one of the photographs of their choosing.

We got "up close and personal" with photography.

Later in the afternoon, we worked with our chosen photograph again.  I modeled how to do a quick write. I viewed my photograph of yellow daffodils, and wrote single words and phrases that came into my head as I viewed it.  I did a lot of thinking aloud for them, so they could hear my stream of thought. Following my lead, students wrote their own quick writes using the quick write page I provided.   Then, I introduced the Pantoum poetry form.  This form of poetry comes from Malaysia and employs a series of repeated lines.  It's perfect for when you want to emphasize an idea or image in your writing.

Again, I modeled taking my quick write ideas and using them to write the lines of my poem. Students followed suit, trying it on their own.  My poem is below:

Spring Daffodils

In mysterious canyons of sunshine and butter,

I follow the secret pathways,

Past bends and turns

on a ruffled and rippled river.

I follow the secret pathways,

Dripping with sunlit honey.

On a ruffled and rippled river,

I ride the tumultuous waves of spring.

Dripping with sunlit honey,

Alive with bumble and buzz,

I ride the tumultuous waves of spring,

Swimming in its yellow currents.

Alive with bumble and buzz,

Past bends and turns,

Swimming in its yellow currents

In mysterious canyons of sunshine and butter.

                                     By Tracy Willis

Later in the afternoon, we made our own poppies using templates I created and common classroom materials like scissors, glue, and construction paper.   The pictures below show the results.  After our crazy week, it was remarkable to listen to my students as they wrote.  It was the quietest they had been all week.  Even more remarkable, my boys were so earnest as they wrote their poems about Georgia's flowers and bones.  It was a Friday well spent.  









I have to say, this creative writing, reading, and art activity was the perfect way to counterbalance the stresses of standardized test and student-led conferences preparation.  You can find it for your own classroom by clicking the graphic below.  It has everything you need to be ready for April's Poetry Month. 

Let's Go Fly a Kite

By Deann Marin of  Socrates Lantern

When I taught special needs kids, each month we would do something special for those who earned enough points. One of their favorite activities was to make and fly kites in March. Years later, I was mainstreamed to 6th grade and the children also loved  this activity.  After they flew their kites, they wrote two papers, one explaining how to make a kite and the other about their experience.

I am going to show you how to make simple kites that your class will love doing.

Materials for a garbage bag kite:  plastic bags, two sticks, string, a ribbon and a nice windy day.

Step 1:  Take two sticks, wooden dowels, or garden stakes and put them into the shape of a cross., one horizontally and one vertically. Place the horizontal stick about a third of the way down and tie them together with a string.

 Step 2: Wrap the string securely around the horizontal and vertical sticks so that they stay together.

Step 3:  Cut the bag to fit the kite frame. Secure tightly by tying the ends of the bag to the frame at the tip of each dowel or stick.

Step 4:  Tie string from one side of the horizontal stick to the other, make it loose so that it forms a triangle, see first picture in step #4. Tie a large ball of string to thebottom part of the vertical stick. Loop under the loose portion of the horizontal string and tie a knot then tie another knot where the horizontal and vertical strings meet. You’ll know you’ve done it right if you see a triangle shape. See 2nd image in step #4.

Step 5: Tie some colorful ribbons to the end of the kite to give it balance. If it seems flimsy , you can attach washers to the ribbons to add support.

Step 6: Voila, your kites are complete. All you need is a sunny and windy March day and some space for your kids to run with their kites. Have fun. By the way, you can have a contest to see which kite flies the highest or the best.

Another fun thing that I’ve done with the kids is to take them camping at the end of the school year, but that’s another story.

For more spring activities, please take a look at a few of my products. 

Parts of Speech for St Patrick's Day

Interactive Poetry Notebook for Spring

Spring into Grammar Part 1

Spring into Grammar Part 2

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Deann

Please visit Socrates Lantern’s Social Media Sites

   

Before you leave, please take a look at the rest of the blog posts that are part of our March Teacher Talk blog hop.

An InLinkz Link-up

Language Arts - Poetry Unit for Intermediate Students (NO PREP)

The Art of Interpretation - A complete poetry unit

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Unit-The-Art-of-Interpretation-No-Prep-1238103

Poetry: The Art of Interpretation – is designed to teach students how to interpret, appreciate, and analyse poetry.

There are 9 complete lessons (estimated to last approximately 60 minutes), therefore 2 weeks of lessons.

This complete, no prep unit is a great way to start! This unit includes a student guide, 9 detailed lesson plans, 2 multimedia presentations (no internet connection required), a detailed answer key with annotated poems and answers, and an end of the unit evaluation with rubric, and answer key.

Just print it and teach it.

Poetry is a very subjective form of art. Some poems you love and others, you hate. What we need to realize is that this is the beauty of poetry. Poetry is not a mystery to be solved. Rather, it is the masterful manipulation of language that has the power to transform the ordinary and to immerse its reader into the world created by the author.

This unit incorporates art to help students understand and appreciate the beauty within words. In addition, students will learn how to analyse themes in poetry though paintings and art work.

This HUGE bundle includes:

Each lesson focuses on a different skill set including:
- Knowledge and manipulation of figurative and poetic language
- How to read and understand (appreciate) poetry
- How to analyse poetry
- How to annotate poetry
- How to paraphrase effectively
- How to use symbols
- How to effectively develop themes from poetry
- Creative writing
- Creative activities to learn how to analyse

The unit includes a student packet (20 pages), a teacher packet (with 9 complete lessons), and a comprehensive answer key with annotations to poem (with 17 pages). See preview for more details.

Poets studied include: (8 poems total)
- Billy Collins
- Anne Marriott
- Phyllis Gotlieb
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Frost
- John Crowe Ransom
- Lord Alfred Tennyson

The unit also includes:

1 – The teacher guide (Contains 9 comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poems included in the unit. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH THIS UNIT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU. )

2 – The student package (Contains students’ notes , poems, and questions) (20 pages)

3 – The answer key includes annotated poems and answers to all student activities (saving you time – 18 pages).

4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as a development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)

5 – 2 PowerPoint presentations – one multimedia presentation to introduce the unit (17 slides) and the second to reinforce the use of imagery and symbolism (19 slides) – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED

6 – Images to project or print

7- An end of the unit creative evaluation, which includes clear and concise directions and rubric. (In a Word document for easy modifications)


- An interactive multimedia Jeopardy game to review figurative language and poetic devices (PowerPoint – no internet required)

- A multimedia PowerPoint on how to read and interpret poetry

- A PowerPoint presentation on how to interpret symbols and imagery in literature (19 slides)

- A final culminating evaluation with evaluation rubric (left in Word format for easily made modifications)

The unit has been created in such a way as to simplify the teacher’s life. Photocopy the 3 packages included and don’t worry about it for the rest of the unit. You literally can begin teaching it without any other preparation.

A total of 43 pages + 64 slides are included in this package.

This unit is complete, and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package and you’re set.

Language Arts - Poetry: The Art of Interpretation (Complete unit - NO PREP)

 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Unit-The-Art-of-Interpretation-No-Prep-1238103

 

 

Poetry: The Art of Interpretation – is designed to teach students how to interpret, appreciate, and analyse poetry.

There are 9 complete lessons (estimated to last approximately 60 minutes), therefore 2 weeks of lessons.

This complete, no prep unit is a great way to start! This unit includes a student guide, 9 detailed lesson plans, 2 multimedia presentations (no internet connection required), a detailed answer key with annotated poems and answers, and an end of the unit evaluation with rubric, and answer key.

Just print it and teach it.

Poetry is a very subjective form of art. Some poems you love and others, you hate. What we need to realize is that this is the beauty of poetry. Poetry is not a mystery to be solved. Rather, it is the masterful manipulation of language that has the power to transform the ordinary and to immerse its reader into the world created by the author.

This unit incorporates art to help students understand and appreciate the beauty within words. In addition, students will learn how to analyse themes in poetry though paintings and art work.

This HUGE bundle includes:

Each lesson focuses on a different skill set including:
- Knowledge and manipulation of figurative and poetic language
- How to read and understand (appreciate) poetry
- How to analyse poetry
- How to annotate poetry
- How to paraphrase effectively
- How to use symbols
- How to effectively develop themes from poetry
- Creative writing
- Creative activities to learn how to analyse

The unit includes a student packet (20 pages), a teacher packet (with 9 complete lessons), and a comprehensive answer key with annotations to poem (with 17 pages). See preview for more details.

Poets studied include: (8 poems total)
- Billy Collins
- Anne Marriott
- Phyllis Gotlieb
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Frost
- John Crowe Ransom
- Lord Alfred Tennyson

The unit also includes:

1 – The teacher guide (Contains 9 comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poems included in the unit. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH THIS UNIT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU. )

2 – The student package (Contains students’ notes , poems, and questions) (20 pages)

3 – The answer key includes annotated poems and answers to all student activities (saving you time – 18 pages).

4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as a development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)

5 – 2 PowerPoint presentations – one multimedia presentation to introduce the unit (17 slides) and the second to reinforce the use of imagery and symbolism (19 slides) – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED

6 – Images to project or print

7- An end of the unit creative evaluation, which includes clear and concise directions and rubric. (In a Word document for easy modifications)


- An interactive multimedia Jeopardy game to review figurative language and poetic devices (PowerPoint – no internet required)

- A multimedia PowerPoint on how to read and interpret poetry

- A PowerPoint presentation on how to interpret symbols and imagery in literature (19 slides)

- A final culminating evaluation with evaluation rubric (left in Word format for easily made modifications)

The unit has been created in such a way as to simplify the teacher’s life. Photocopy the 3 packages included and don’t worry about it for the rest of the unit. You literally can begin teaching it without any other preparation.

A total of 43 pages + 64 slides are included in this package.

This unit is complete, and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package and you’re set.


 

Language Arts - Poetry Unit for Senior Students (NO PREP WORK)

 

 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Unit-for-senior-students-1107375

 

 

Poetry Unit (Bundled) (Improved and revised)

For grades 11 and 12

Many teachers hate teaching poetry because they don’t know where to begin. This unit will make you and your students love poetry. This complete, no prep unit is a great way to start! This 2 and a half week unit includes a student guide, 12 detailed lesson plans, 2 multimedia presentations (no internet connection required), a detailed answer key with annotated poems, and an end of the unit evaluation with answer key.

Just print it and teach it.

This HUGE bundle includes:

This poetry unit has been devised to teach students the importance of :
• Figurative language (its uses and effects)
• How to read poetry
• How to understand and apply symbolism and imagery
• The importance of rhythm
• The importance of tone and attitude in a poem
• Types of poetry
• How to analyse poetry
• How to appreciate poetry (even when you don’t understand it)

This unit’s focus is the analysis of poetry and teaches students how to make inferences, which is a skill they must learn for their other subjects as well.

Poems include authors such as: Emily Dickenson, Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Thomas Gray, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Noyes, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Pearl Jam, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman. The Unit includes 21 different poems.

The unit has been conceived to last 12 days – with 65 minute periods (although they are easy to modify).

The unit contains:

1 – The teacher guide (Contains 12 comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poems included in the unit. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH THIS UNIT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU. )

2 – The student package (Contains students’ notes , poems, and questions) (26 pages)

3 – The answer key includes annotated poems and answers to all student activities (saving you time).

4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as a development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)

5 – 2 PowerPoint presentations – one multimedia presentation to introduce the unit (17 slides) and the second to reinforce the use of imagery and symbolism (19 slides) – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED

A total of 63 pages + 36 slides are included in this package.

This unit is complete, and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package and you’re set.


 

Language Arts - Poetry Unit (COMPLETE - NO PREP)

This poetry unit not only teaches students about poetic devices, themes, and other important literary elements, but it also teaches  them to stand up for themselves and those around them.  Poetry gives us a voice that we might not have known we had.  Let's teach our young people to use it.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Unit-Bundle-for-junior-students-gr-9-1020615

This unit is appropriate for a grade 9 level (or if you have older grades with weaker students).

This is a 10 to 13 period Poetry unit that contains ALL the necessary information for the teacher and for the students. Detailed lesson plans with suggestions for discussion are available as well as a visually pleasing student guide. All that is needed from the teacher is to photocopy the pages for students and begin teaching and learning.

The files are in PDF format and are zipped for convenience.


- 1 set of « I HAVE, Who has? » cards (to familiarize students with figurative language)
- 1 set of instructions for the game
- A comprehensive teacher guide with 10 complete lessons
- A student package that contains ALL notes and handouts students will need for the unit
- An end unit evaluation - in a Word document for easy modifications. (With detailed evaluation rubrics – one for the written component and one for the oral component - answer key and annotated teacher version included).
- A detailed answer key is included.

In the lesson plans, there is detailed information for each poem taught. This poetry bundle has been designed to use mostly with the intermediate student.

Poems studied include:

- Song lyrics – Jessie J’s “Domino” (Goal : review figurative language and analyze messages found in popular media.)
- Jonathan Reed’s “The Lost Generation”
- Selena Matis’ “Ability”
- Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken”
- Robert Hayden’s “ Those Winter Sundays”
- Song lyrics “True Colors”
- Emily Dickenson’s “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”
- Rudyard Kipling’s “If”
- Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman”

The unit has been conceived for the intermediate level and is oriented by the guiding question: “What do I stand for?”. (For those who participate in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program: The Area of Interaction is Health and Social Education.) The unit contextualizes poetry to help students better understand who they
are and what they stand for.  

FREE Language Arts Lesson - Analysing Poetry

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Analysing-Poetry-1133366

FREE LESSON - This mini unit on Walt Whitman’s" I Heard the Learned Astronomer" and "A Noiseless, Patient Spider", teaches students how to analyse poetry. Students must learn to observe, connect, make inferences, and draw conclusions on themes.

This mini guide includes:

-a detailed lesson plan for the teacher
-poems for students
-answer key and poetry annotation

This mini-guide includes 6 pages. I hope you enjoy it.

English Language Arts - Poetry Unit for Intermediate Students (NO PREP)

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Unit-For-intermediate-students-1238103

This unit is appropriate for a grade 10 - 11 levels.

Poetry is a very subjective form of art. Some poems you love and others, you hate. What we need to realize is that this is the beauty of poetry we must appreciate. Poetry is not a mystery to be solved. Rather, it is the masterful manipulation of language that has the power to transform the ordinary and to immerse its reader into the world created by the author.


This unit incorporates art to help students understand and appreciate the beauty within words. In addition, students will learn how to analyse themes in poetry through paintings and art work.

Each lesson focuses on a different skill set including:

- Knowledge and manipulation of figurative and poetic language
- How to read and understand (appreciate) poetry
- How to analyse poetry
- How to annotate poetry
- How to paraphrase effectively
- How to use symbols
- How to effectively develop themes from poetry

The unit includes a student packet (20 pages), a teacher packet (with 8 complete lessons), and a comprehensive answer key with annotations for poem (with 17 pages). See preview for more details.

Poets studied include:

- Billy Collins
- Anne Marriott
- Phyllis Gotlieb
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Frost
- John Crowe Ransom

The unit also included:
- A Jeopardy game to review figurative language and poetic devices (PPT)
- A flashcard activity to teach symbolism
- A final culminating evaluation with evaluation rubric (left in Word format for easily made modifications)

There is a total of 59 pages included in this unit.

The unit has been created in such a way as to simplify the teacher’s life. Photocopy the 3 packages included and don’t worry about it for the rest of the unit. You literally can begin teaching it without any other preparation.

It's teaching made easy!

English Language Arts - Poetry Unit (gr 9) NO PREP

This poetry unit would be a great way to start the school year.  It's fun, creative, and easy for the teacher.  All you need to do it print it and teach it.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Unit-Bundle-for-junior-students-gr-9-1020615

 

 

 This unit is appropriate for a grade 9 level (or if you have older grades with weaker students).

This is a 10 to 13 period Poetry unit that contains ALL the necessary information for the teacher and for the students. Detailed lesson plans with suggestions for discussion are available as well as a visually pleasing student guide. All that is needed from the teacher is to photocopy the pages for students and begin teaching and learning.

The files are in PDF format and are zipped for convenience.


- 1 set of « I HAVE, Who has? » cards (to familiarize students with figurative language)
- 1 set of instructions for the game
- A comprehensive teacher guide with 10 complete lessons
- A student package that contains ALL notes and handouts students will need for the unit
- An end unit evaluation - in a Word document for easy modifications. (With detailed evaluation rubrics – one for the written component and one for the oral component - answer key and annotated teacher version included).
- A detailed answer key is included.

In the lesson plans, there is detailed information for each poem taught. This poetry bundle has been designed to use mostly with the intermediate student.

Poems studied include:

- Song lyrics – Jessie J’s “Domino” (Goal : review figurative language and analyze messages found in popular media.)
- Jonathan Reed’s “The Lost Generation”
- Selena Matis’ “Ability”
- Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken”
- Robert Hayden’s “ Those Winter Sundays”
- Song lyrics “True Colors”
- Emily Dickenson’s “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”
- Rudyard Kipling’s “If”
- Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman”

The unit has been conceived for the intermediate level and is oriented by the guiding question: “What do I stand for?”. (For those who participate in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program: The Area of Interaction is Health and Social Education.) The unit contextualizes poetry to help students better understand who they
are and what they stand for.   

 

Poetry Workshop with Interactive Notebooks for Grades 5-8

By Deann Marin atThe Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs II

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I’ve been noticing that many teachers like using interactive notebooks with their classes. So I’ve done some research and decided to make one of my own. This type of activity utilizes all learning styles, visual, auditory and kinesthetic. It allows children to cut, paste, write, see and listen. Better yet, it keeps them engaged because they are doing things with their hands as well as listening and seeing.

I’ve come up with an interactive-poetry notebook bundle. There are 100 pages of various types of fold-able templates that can be added to their notebooks.  If you would like to make a regular booklet or have the class write poems to put on the bulletin board, color and black and white templates are also included. As a highlight of this poetry workshop, the class may pick their favorite poem and get it published in the anthology called  Celebration of Young Poets- Creative Communication, Inc.

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A Preview of What’s Inside

Teacher’s Complete Lesson Plans…………………4-13

Poetry Writing Workshop, Student Handouts……14-20

Parts of Speech, & Sensory Cards, ……………….........21-33

Free Verse Poems Interactive Notebook &

Worksheets   …………………………………………..34-40

Sensory Interactive Notebook Poems &

Worksheets………………………………………….........41-50

Acrostic Interactive Notebook Poems &

Worksheets…………………………………………….51-56

Limericks & Riddles Interactive Notebook……….57-68

Cinquain Interactive Notebook……………………..69-74

Diamante Interactive Notebook…………………….75-84

Haiku Interactive Notebook…………………………85-91

Shape Poem Interactive Notebook………………….92-98

Grading Rubric……………………………………….  99

Contact Information…………………………………. 100

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Making this bundle took many hours, it was a work of love for me. I hope it will help to bring out the poet in all of your students. 

Thank you very much.

Deann

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