This interactive listening lesson includes: - 14 engaging, colourful slides to encourage discussion and learning - An explanation of the difference between hearing and listening - Details on how passive listening differs from active listening - A clear lesson on how to listen actively - Reasons why you should become an active listener

By the end of this colorful, engaging, and interactive presentation, your students will have a clear understanding of rhyming couplets and syllabication and be ready and anxious to create their own. This PowerPoint presentation will function well with any of the following programs or apps: PowerPoint, PowerPoint Online, or Google Slides. Be sure to view the presentation as a slideshow for the animations to work. If you have any difficulties, please contact me.

This package includes: - An original thought provoking Thanksgiving poem suitable a discussion on being thankful, for choral reading, or teaching a lesson on rhyming and poetry. - An alternative cloze type fill in the blank version of the poem for students to complete. - A Thanksgiving rhyming couplet writing activity.