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Listen to a poem

Use the poems "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Sea Fever" to teach the poetic devices of rhythm, meter and scansion.

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

Rhythm stars

This lesson will introduce the main components of rhythm: quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes.

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Music Education)

By Laura Abernethy.

Vowel, consonant, vowel your way to better reading

This is a lesson for Secondary Special Education Teachers who teach exceptional children who are reading at the second grade level. Students will learn decoding patterns using vowels and consonants to divide words into syllables in order to sound out the word.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)

By Julie Wilson.

“J'adore la pizza” by Karen Kransky: Finding rhyming words in a French poem

This lesson is designed to increase students' awareness of some French letter-sound combinations that rhyme, in spite of being spelled differently using the poem, "J'adore la pizza" by Karen Kransky.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Second Languages)

By Laura Hemphill.

Haiku and photography: A natural connection

This lesson will allow students to combine photographing nature with creating a Haiku poem to express what they see in the photograph.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)

By steven sather.

Shared reading and writing with La Casa Adormecida

This lesson focuses on adjective placement and agreement in Spanish as found in the story La casa adormecida by Audrey Wood using shared reading and writing strategies.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Second Languages)

By Leslie Baldwin.

Cherokee syllabary

The Cherokee language is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah, also known as George Guess, in 1819. Each symbol represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme as in English. There are far too many syllables in English (tens of thousands) for an...

Format: image/chart

Non-Halloween activity for October 31

Students will rewrite the lyrics to a well-known song focusing on Autumn sounds, smells and sights, but without any of the usual Halloween trappings.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)

Word processing valentines

This lesson combines the need to practice keyboarding skills, completion of rhymes, a popular children's book, and the motivational aspects of the Valentine holiday.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

By Kay Harrison.

The Cherokee language and syllabary

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.2

In the early nineteenth century, a Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah invented a syllabary, or syllabic alphabet, for the Cherokee language. Within a few years, books and newspapers were printed in Cherokee, and by 1830, as many as 90 percent of Cherokee were literate in their own language. This article includes audio recordings of spoken Cherokee.

Format: article

Butterfly metamorphosis

This is an integrated lesson which is introduced using the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Butterfly metamorphosis is explored through art, math, and writing.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science)

By Laura Byers.

Learning to Read

Young children love to be read to and look forward to reading themselves. This sampling of resources provide activities that are fun and stimulate interest in reading.

Format: bibliography/help

Nature journaling: A new way to enjoy nature

Nature journaling is a way to record and re-create an image experienced in nature. By combining drawing and writing, the student uses their senses to record what they feel, see, hear and touch at a particular point in time.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)

By steven sather.

Native American music: Two North Carolina tribes

In this lesson plan, students will listen to songs from two North Carolina tribes. Students will learn about the music through listening, analyzing, singing, moving, and playing instruments.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education and Social Studies)

By Merritt Raum Flexman.

The rise of the Ku Klux Klan

In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.3

Contemporary description of Klan violence in the Carolinas during Reconstruction, written by African American lawyer John Patterson Green. Includes historical commentary.

Format: book

Dance of the times: African-American expression of jazz

Explores jazz dance as a social dance form and a uniquely expressive art of African-American culture from the 1920's and 1930's. Students will learn about the complexity of African-American experiences that generated the dance and musical style. The activities develop students' understanding of jazz dance while integrating visual, audio, and kinesthetic learning styles.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Dance Arts Education)

By Shelese Douglas.

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.1

In 1836, years of increasing tension between Cherokees in the southeastern U.S. and white settlers eager to encroach on Cherokee land culminated in the Treaty of New Echota, which called for the forcible removal of Cherokees to the western Indian Territory. Two years later, federal troops and state militias enforced the treaty, sending large groups of Indians west with inadequate supplies. Many died along the way. The forced removal of the Indians from their land has become known as the Trail of Tears.

Format: article

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Play with words: Rhyme & verse

Children of all ages enjoy listening to bouncy rhythms and reciting catchy rhymes. In this lesson, students will use their senses to experience poetry. Students will listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)

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