This is a Revised and Updated ELA Common Core Poetry Unit for Spring. Students will learn about Springtime through poems, chants, plays, and writing activities. There are 6 original poems, a play, and Readers Theater. Students will learn different forms of poetry and write poems as well as an opinion piece and informative text about Spring. Each writing or literacy activity is differentiated at the 1st and 2nd grade levels. CCSS and Lesson plans are included.

Table of Contents:
Common Core Standards
Poem: “Spring is Here to Stay”
Writing Activity: “Spring is…”
Writing Prompt Task Cards: Color and B/W
Opinion Piece Writing Information Chart: Color or B/W
Graphic Organizers for Opinion Piece Writing
Opinion Piece Writing: “What I Like Most About Spring”
Writing Prompt Task Cards: Color and B/W
Informative Text Writing Information Chart: Color or B/W
Informational Text Writing: “Spring”
Acrostic Poem: “Spring” Writing Activity
Spring Play Character Cards: Color and B/W
1st Grade Spring Play
2nd Grade Spring Play/Readers Theater
Poem: “Let’s Plant a Garden”
From Seed to Plant: Sequence Picture/Fact Cards: Color and B/W
Poem: “At the Pond”
“At the Pond” Verb Find (1st Grade)
“At the Pond” Verb Find and Paragraph Writing (2nd Grade)
Poem: “Busy Bees”
“Busy Bees” Missing Verb Activity (1st Grade)
Cinquain: “Bees”
Cinquain Anchor Charts: Color and B/W
Cinquain Writing Activity
“How to be …” Poem Anchor Charts: Color and B/W
Poem: “How to be a Ladybug”
Writing a “How to be” Poem Activity
“My Plant Journal” Observation Book Activity
Class Spring Poetry and Spring Writing Book Covers

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