Today's Classroom Activities :

Remembering Rhymes

Remembering Rhymes
Language Often when it is important to remember something, rhyming can be a great help. Here is a poem to help your students remember the steps in the writing process. Next, have your students write poems using other topics they are trying to remember right now.

The Writing Process

by Elizabeth Smalligan

First, you need to think, think, think
Of all the ideas you can pen in ink.

Then it's time to write, write, write.
That rough draft gets the thoughts in sight.

Change, change, change is the next thing to do.
Revise your paper 'til it looks like new.

Correct, correct, correct is next on the list.
Check for grammar you might have missed.

Finally, it's time to share, share, share
Your finished paper with people who care.

Rhyming Raindrops
Reading/Art Provide students with pictures of umbrellas and raindrops or templates for them. Put each pair or group of students in charge of a word family or "chunk." After they have completed them, ask each group to explain their set and then display them in the room.