Use this bundle of activities to teach your students about popular poem types and poetry elements this National Poetry Month. This bundle includes a variety of engaging activities designed to explore different poem types and fundamental poetry elements. Items Included 1. 15 Types of Poems This print and digital poetry writing resource will help scaffold the writing of 15 poem types. 15 sample poem types in print black and white version 15 sample poem types in digital color/colour version: format PowerPoint file & Google Slides (link included) Writing sheets with images and lines to scaffold poem writing Teacher Marking Rubric (grades) Performance Rubric (no grades) Student Self-Reflection Center/Centre Checklist Poem Table of Contents Anthology Cover Sheet You can upload the digital PowerPoint file to your LMS. The 15 Poem Types featured are: A Simile Poem ‘About Me’ ‘I Am’ Poem ‘With My Senses’ Poem 5 W’s Poem Bio Poem ‘About Me’ Haiku Cinquain Antonym Diamante ‘I Don’t Understand’ Poem ‘Just Because’ Poem Limerick Concrete Poem Creature Alliteration Poem Acrostic Poem Parts of Speech Poem 2. 12 Elements of Poetry Dive into the world of verse with this comprehensive resource designed to teach 12 essential elements of poetry. With printable response sheets, interactive task cards with QR codes, and visually appealing posters featuring explanations of the poetic devices and sample poems, this resource promises to engage and inspire your students in their poetic pursuits. The 12 elements of poetry featured are: Alliteration Analogy Assonance Consonance Hyperbole Idiom Imagery Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Simile Symbolism Interactive Notebook Foldables, Posters, Anchor Charts Interactive notebook templates for 15 poem types. Color photographs of assembly instructions included, Colored and blackline posters/anchor charts for 15 poem types. Student Center Checklist Student self-reflection sheet Teacher Marking Rubric Performance Rubric 27 Types of Poems Posters 1 pdf file featuring 28 posters (8.5 x 11 inches, landscape orientation) 28 high-resolution (300 dpi) JPGs The Types of Poems featured in these posters are: Acrostic Ballad Bio Poem Cinquain Clerihew Concrete Poem Couplet Diamante Elegy Epic Epigram x 2 Five Senses Free Verse Haiku Limerick Lyric Poem Narrative Poem Octave Ode Palindrome Poem Pastoral Poem Quatrain Riddle Poem Sestet Sonnet Tanka Tercet

Build reading fluency of 222 BLENDS with this innovative pack of fluency reader strips/accordion foldables. These accordion foldables may be glued into students’ interactive notebooks or stapled at the top to compile a mini strip booklet. Perfect to send home with students or for display in the classroom. Each set comes in: ✓ Colour ✓ Blackline ✓ With visuals ✓ Without visuals → The blackline formats feature words in large outline so your students may colour in, write, or highlight inside to reinforce spelling and reading. → You may have students glue the accordion strips in their interactive notebooks or simply staple them at the top. → All Accordion foldables have 10-12 words conveniently placed on a single sheet giving you the flexibility to use them as spelling lists or to introduce in smaller batches. There are two copies of a single strip on a single page for two students. → You may also use a brad fastener to attach the reading strips together and spread-out to read as a fan. Great to send home with students to practise reading and spelling. Reading will not be too overwhelming as your students fold and read each fluency strip foldable. This is definitely a great way to engage students in reading, besides this resource could also serve as an effective way to also teach vocabulary and spelling.

Have your students practise research writing skills by collating and recording information in these editable flipbook templates on 10 celebrations. The titles, pictures and writing prompts for each section of the flipbook scaffold writing and research. Student checklists, Teacher Marking Rubrics and Display Banners also included. ******************************************** ITEMS INCLUDED FOR EACH CELEBRATION FLIPBOOK PACK ✓ Blackline flipbook templates ✓ Coloured flipbook templates ✓ Editable Flipbook templates (history, food, custom and traditions) ✓ Self-editing checklist ✓ Peer-editing checklist ✓ Teacher Marking Rubric: 3 options ✓ Writing sheets x 2 ✓ Display Banners (2-3 options) ******************************************** PARTS OF THE FLIPBOOK/INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK ♦ Cover Page (11-30 options): featuring graphics (not editable) ♦ History and Origin ♦ Festive Food: food/candy specifically associated with the celebration ♦ Custom and Tradition: ways of celebrating and interesting facts

ANIMAL RESEARCH: ANIMAL REPORTS: INFORMATIONAL/INFORMATIVE WRITING: Desert Animals: Ocean Animals: Polar Animals: Rainforest Animals: Wetland Animals: Reptiles and Amphibians: Australian Animals: Endangered Animals: Rainforest Animals : Wetland Animals ******************************************** This mega Animal Research Bundle features flipbook-style Informational Reports on animals in six major habitats and on Endangered animals. Bonus pack on Australian Animals also included. These flipbooks scaffold the structural components of an Information Report at each stage of the writing process. This resource can be used as a stand-alone flipbook or in an interactive notebook. ******************************************** WHAT’S INCLUDED FOR EACH PACK: Flipbook templates, checklists (x2), marking rubrics (x4), Writing Sheets (x4) styles for: Each Flipbook Animal Pack comprises of: ✓ Flipbook templates (1-7) in blackline ✓ Self-editing checklist ✓ Peer-editing checklist ✓ Teacher Marking Rubric x 4 formats ✓ Writing sheets x 4 styles PARTS OF EACH FLIPBOOK ANIMAL PACK COVER : 14 - 21 cover options featuring animals specific to a habitat. Students can pick the cover depending on what animal is under study. ⇒ 1. INTRODUCTION: weight, length, family, and group of animal. Students may also write a brief description. ⇒ 2. HABITAT x 2: location in the world. A world map is included to mark the location. ⇒ 3. DIET: food the animal eats to survive. There is place for illustration. ⇒ 4. LIFE CYCLE: the breeding seasons and habits. ⇒ 5. BEHAVIOUR: the physical and behavioural adaptations that enable the animal to survive in its environment. ⇒ 6. INTERESTING FACTS: any other amazing facts about the animal that would sum up the Information report. ******************************************** How to assemble: You can choose either of the three options. → Print out the templates in blackline. Cut around each template and assemble from smallest template to largest template. Have students colour in cover page. Staple at top tab for flipbook or glue descending order in notebook. → Print out the templates on cardstock (different colours). Cut around each template and assemble. Attach at top. ** Have students refer to books, websites, and videos on the specific animal to record information. Suggested use: Have students collect information in their flipbook on the animal under study. This could also serve as their draft where they could use the self-editing and peer-editing checklists to edit. Finally have students publish on given writing sheets or type out content from draft observing corrections. The sections pertaining to habitat, diet, life-cycle, and behaviour can make-up the Body of the Report and 1-2 interesting facts to conclude the Information Report.

Build phonemic awareness, phonic skills and reading fluency with this mega bundle of Fluency Accordion-style Readers featuring 1,650 words! Each Fluency Reader set comes in: ✓ Colour ✓ Blackline ✓ With visuals ✓ Without visuals * excluding Dolch Readers → The blackline formats feature words in large outline so your students may colour in, write, or highlight inside to reinforce spelling and reading. → You may have students glue the accordion strips in their interactive notebooks or simply staple them at the top. → For foldables featuring two strips of ten words, you may glue stip 1 over strip 2 to create one long accordion foldable. Perfect to send home with students or for display in the classroom. → Most accordion foldables have 10 words conveniently placed on a single sheet giving you the flexibility to use them as spelling lists or to introduce in smaller batches. → You may also use a brad fastener to attach the reading strips together and spread-out to read as a fan. Great to send home with students to practise reading and spelling. → These products are also sold individually. Click on the picture links to access more information. Reading will not be too overwhelming as your students fold and read each fluency strip foldable. This is definitely a great way to engage students in reading, besides this resource could also serve as an effective way to also teach vocabulary and spelling.