Take your 4th-6th grade students on a trip through time this Memorial Day to meet the poets that inspired a famous Memorial Day symbol: red poppies! With these 5 ELA Lessons aimed at supporting balanced literacy through a variety of kid-approved reading and writing activities, your learners will have fun reading and responding to poetry, comparing and contrasting poems, digging into informational texts, defining domain-specific vocabulary, discovering the meaning of new poetry terms... and, of c