What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
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Cube Creator
3 - 12
Student Interactive
| Organizing & Summarizing
The interactive Cube Creator helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity.
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Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom
6 - 8
Professional Library
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Jaime Wood offers middle school English language arts teachers material for teaching poetry by Nikki Giovanni, Li-Young Lee, and Pat Mora; the text includes graphic organizers and other resources.
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Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
8 - 12
Professional Library
| Journal
Describes ways short story collections can be integrated into the English curriculum, including a short story fair, a short story hunt, using single short stories to extend a unit, using a short story by itself, using a collection as a whole, and using short stories as part of a focus on writing. Offers a list of short story resources.
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Mystery Cube
6 - 12
Student Interactive
| Writing & Publishing Prose
The Mystery Cube helps students identify and summarize story elements in this popular genre. It can be used as a postreading or prewriting activity.
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Bio Cube
3 - 12
Student Interactive
| Organizing & Summarizing
Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.