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Teaching Activities

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The following sites offer many activities for teachers using Shel Silverstein material.

 

HarperCollins Children's Books offers teachers a downloadable kit to be used with National Poetry Month in April. The kit is based completely on Shel Silverstein's works and offers pictures of characters from many his poems to be used with various activities such as: rhyming words, creative writing, learning about different themes, plus many more ideals.

This is available at:http://www.shelsilverstein.com

 
The  Internet School Library Media Center also offers many activities for teachers to incorporate into the classroom. The activities are not just academic they can be used for art as well, check it out at, http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/silverstein.htm#C
 
 

Many of Shel Silverstein poems have potential in the class room such as:
  1. In the poem, Examination, where the doctor is pulling things out of the throat, you can get old magazines and illustrate this happening.
  2. The poem, Channels, can be used as a group read aloud activity, you can add on to the bottom of the poem to include the whole class. The same with the poem, Hard to Please.
  3. Have the class divide into groups; give each group a Shel Silverstein book.  The class will divide the poems into like subjects, poems about food, body parts, or names.  
  4. Using different poems from Shel Silversteins's books, have students write down adjectives, nouns and verbs to build a word wall for National Poetry Month.  You can also add other authors' poems to this activity.
  5. Find various poems that use descriptive language and write the words down.
  6. Find synonyms or antonyms in different poems.

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