Use your students’ background knowledge of word families and word sorting to create Couplets and Quatrains. Gather these two forms of poetry, along with others, into a Poetry Book project, which makes a perfect gift!

Playing with language is fun, especially when exploring different forms of poetry with your students. Use Parts of Speech poems to review nouns, verbs, conjunctions, adjectives and more while collecting poetry to use in a Poetry Book project.

Here’s an easy to make and useful Father’s Day gift! Dad can use the My Dad Rocks jar to store coins, office or workshop supplies. Materials: My Dad Rocks Label Template Father’s Day Gift Certificates Two Rocks (big and small) Paint (blue or green) Paint Brushes Glass Jar with Lid Tape Markers Wiggly Eyes (8) Elmer’s Glue [...]

Here’s a free, printable Mother’s Day gift craft! Students will create purses and fill them with personalized coupons that Mom can redeem any time. Materials: Free Mother’s Day Purse and Coupons Template Yarn Scissors Crayons or Colored Pencils Instructions: Purse Color and cut out the purse. Use a hole puncher to poke holes in the [...]

Here’s a fun Chocolate Chip Digraph Game and lesson plan! Explaining Digraphs – Think Chocolate! A digraph is two letters together which create a new sound (e.g. ch, sh, th, wh, qu, ph, -ck). Bring unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, sugar and chocolate chips as visuals for your lesson. Put all of the ingredients on display in [...]

This writing lesson plan introduces three forms of syllable poetry: Haiku, Tanka and Cinquain. Suggestions include how to teach them and collect the resulting poems for a Poetry Book to use as a gift!

The Cootie Catcher Poem is a great activity as the school year winds down. Use the Easy or More Complicated Versions to help your kids become Poetry Detectives!

This Photo Flower Gift is the perfect present for Mother’s Day! Materials: Flower Template Colored Pencils, Crayons or Markers Paint Paint Brushes Scissors Photo Card Stock Paper (white or yellow) Glue Chenille Stems (green) Clay (red clay, which hardens, works well) Small Clay Pots Glitter (optional) Instructions: Teacher (If possible, assign a teacher assistant to help with this [...]

Here’s a free template and lesson plan (below). The students will slide the egg halves to create words. Then, they will guess which object is inside the egg. When the egg is open they will find the surprise answer. This lesson plan can be differentiated depending upon the needs of the student. Students learn onset [...]

Teachers, Here’s a fun game students will enjoy while learning er, ir, ur words. Game Pieces Spinner (laminated and attach arrow  with a brad) Word Game Pieces (1 per player) Answer Key Pencil with eraser (1 per player) Blank Game Piece (optional) Create & Prepare the Game Cut out the spinner, arrow, word game pieces [...]