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8th grade balanced literacy songs
Literary Elements in Song Lyrics: Organizers & Key for Rap Song
This LITERARY Elements Analysis lesson is used with the song lyrics of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise"
If you want an avenue to truly reach many of your students in teaching them literary elements and how to identify and analyze them, this product is perfect for that!
Elements of Focus: Theme/Main Idea, Allusion, Irony, Idiom, Personification, Metaphor, Oxymoron
PDF file contains 7 pages-- 3 student printable organizers with literary elements in which student provides lyrics from song displayin
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Dinosaur Songs with science facts (Lyrics only)
What child does not love to learn about dinosaur songs? For example, "Well, let me tell you a story about ole' T-Rex. Great big legs, but itty bitty pecs!" I have written a collection of songs (piggyback style) that incorporate factual information about the dinosaur featured in the lyrics. This material is in alignment with the GLAD philosophy about learning.I have videos to accompany several of the songs for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXq9_-MBAss&t=7s Check out my YouTube chan
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PreK - 8th
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Christmas Holiday Song Book
Christmas Holiday Song Book
This is an activity to do with your class the whole month of December. Students love getting their own Christmas Holiday Song book. Some people may think this is just a simple song book, but it is so much more. I use this in my class for many balanced literacy activities! Students will have practice using the table of contents page. I ask for requests and they actually have to find the song and the page number. When we get to the song we sing it much slower and t
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K - 12th
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Learning English Through Music
This Powerpoint presentation contains 30 current songs to help students practice figurative language, poetic devices, literary elements, and grammar. Students are presented with a link to the song, and the lyrics of that song on each slide. Along with those items is a set of directions telling the student what they are looking for in each specific song.
We complete this activity as a class, and I give the students the time of the song playing to fulfill the assignment for each song. When t
Grades:
8th - 10th
follow the drinking gourd song
great song for singing during a study of the underground railroad, the life of harriet tubman, two tickets to freedom (4th grade open court), or the civil war.
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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SONG: Take Me Out to the Bookstore - Great for Reading Month!
Take Me Out to the Bookstore is an excellent addition to any reading month activities or even a transition song for Reading Workshop.
With this download you will get an mp3 of the song as well as a matching lyric sheet.
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PreK - 8th, Staff
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To the Tune of... Book Pairing Activity
This project goes great with a book study or independent reading book. It helps students understand characters or settings in their book in a fun and engaging way.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Literary Devices in Song Lyrics Project
Students demonstrate their understanding of literary devices by creating an iMovie (or PowerPoint, Keynote, etc.). This unit includes the assignment sheet with requirements, "movie script" planning page (which can be reproduced as many times as students need it), evaluative rubric, and even a slip for other students to fill out while watching their peers' presentations!
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6th - 9th
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WRITING & CRITICAL THINKING LESSON--PERFECT FOR EARTH DAY/ARBOR DAY
This 3-part ready-to-use handout/lesson begins with a song's lyrics, "If Everyone Lived Like the Tree," presenting the tree as a metaphorical role model for humans. Links to the actual music are provided if you wish to teach the song as a lead-in to the ensuing analysis of the verses. You need not be a musician to teach the song, which is easy to follow and lead (I speak from experience). Part 2 of the lesson focuses on the double-meanings of the descriptions of how trees live, and a critical an
Grades:
5th - 8th
1960s Song Analysis Listening Centers - Surf Sounds feat. The Beach Boys
This Station Rotation Activity is meant to be paired with and part of a larger unit slideshow called The Suburbanization of Postwar America. Students will use this worksheet to rotate through 4 listening stations (the media is provided in the slideshow as embedded video clips). At Station 1 - students will focus on Vocal Harmonies and listen to two songs - Song 1: “The Things We Did Last Summer,” by the Beach Boys (1963) and Song 2: “Angel Eyes,” by The Four Freshmen (1956). Ask students to thin
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Five "Out of This World" Fluency Strategies
Included in this packet are fluency strategies including the Fooba Wooba, Pencil Tapping, Paragraph Shrinking, Reader's Theater and practicing fluency with your favorite lyrics. The author points you in the direction to continue to explore engaging fluency strategies that are "tried" and "tested"!
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K - 8th
The Friendly Letter Dance
The five parts of a letter are easy to remember with this catchy song and dance written by Dawn Rainbowstar. Sung to the tune of The Addams Family, your students will LOVE singing and dancing their way into the perfect friendly letter!
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1st - 12th
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IVAN CAPP's Rap Review of the 8 Parts of Speech (1 page quick review)
This is a one page review of the 8 parts of speech including Ivan Capp's Rap (an original work of myself). I have included a Google Video to replace the MP3 sound file of me singing the rap that was giving people issues). I am also including a handout you can pass to your students or post for them to review.:) Thanks,Mary
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Of Mice and Men Pre-Reading Activity
A free write, a poem comparison and questions, and a song analysis about the theme of friendship in Of Mice and Men. Good for middle school and high school students.
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5th - 12th
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