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Make a Travel Journal

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Make a Travel Journal

Fourth Grade

Reading

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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Make a Travel Journal

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Make a Travel Journal

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Fourth Grade

Reading

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How to Write a Love Song

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How to Write a Love Song

Fourth Grade

Writing

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

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How to Write a Love Song

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How to Write a Love Song

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Sensory Poem: Halloween

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Sensory Poem: Halloween

Fourth Grade

Writing

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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Sensory Poem: Halloween

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Sensory Poem: Halloween

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Write Jump Rope Rhymes

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Write Jump Rope Rhymes

Second Grade

Writing

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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Write Jump Rope Rhymes

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Write Jump Rope Rhymes

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Second Grade

Writing

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Write a Funny Limerick

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Write a Funny Limerick

Fifth Grade

Writing

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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Write a Funny Limerick

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Write a Funny Limerick

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Speak up for the Earth

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Speak up for the Earth

Fifth Grade

Writing

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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Speak up for the Earth

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Speak up for the Earth

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Fifth Grade

Writing

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A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

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A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

Pre-K

Writing

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A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

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A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

Pre-K

Writing

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Before and After Halloween Acrostic

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Before and After Halloween Acrostic

Fifth Grade

Writing

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

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Before and After Halloween Acrostic

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Before and After Halloween Acrostic

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Write Dad a Basketball Message

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Write Dad a Basketball Message

Fifth Grade

Writing

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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Write Dad a Basketball Message

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Write Dad a Basketball Message

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Journal Prompts For Kids

Workbook

Journal Prompts For Kids

Fourth Grade

Writing

Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month's worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!

Workbook

Journal Prompts For Kids

Workbook

Journal Prompts For Kids

Kids can go on a daily writing adventure with a month's worth of prompts to keep writing skills sharp. Invent an animal, write a recipe, make three wishes, and more!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Second Grade

Writing

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Write a Secret Sentence Poem

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Write a Secret Sentence Poem

Fifth Grade

Writing

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

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Write a Secret Sentence Poem

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Write a Secret Sentence Poem

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Chanukah Anagram Game

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Chanukah Anagram Game

Fourth Grade

Writing

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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Chanukah Anagram Game

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Chanukah Anagram Game

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Write A Gratitude Acrostic Poem

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Write A Gratitude Acrostic Poem

Third Grade

Writing

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

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Write A Gratitude Acrostic Poem

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Write A Gratitude Acrostic Poem

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

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Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

Fourth Grade

Writing

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

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Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

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Make Rudolph-Themed Metaphors

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

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Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

Fourth Grade

Writing

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

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Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

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Make Shape Poem Greeting Cards

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Journal Writing Task Cards #2

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Journal Writing Task Cards #2

Third Grade

Writing

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

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Journal Writing Task Cards #2

Worksheet

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Write a Simile Poem ... Starring Your Pet!

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Write a Simile Poem ... Starring Your Pet!

Fourth Grade

Writing

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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Write a Simile Poem ... Starring Your Pet!

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Write a Simile Poem ... Starring Your Pet!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

Third Grade

Writing

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Pressed Flower Bookmarks

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Pressed Flower Bookmarks

Fourth Grade

Writing

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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Pressed Flower Bookmarks

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Pressed Flower Bookmarks

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

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Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Fourth Grade

Writing

Bring poetry to life by reading it aloud with others! Have young readers select one or more of these poems written by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Lee Frost. Then take turns reading aloud by swapping single lines, couplets, or stanzas.

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Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

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Reader's Theatre: Poems of Robert Frost

Fourth Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Sensory Poem Template

Worksheet

Sensory Poem Template

Sixth Grade

Writing

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Worksheet

Sensory Poem Template

Worksheet

Sensory Poem Template

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

Sixth Grade

Writing

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