Free Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Color for Fun Freebie!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Lessons and Freebies!

This week during my Terrific Tuesday Teacher Tips I posted a FREE Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Color For Fun packet as well as some tips and tricks to use in your classroom. With most people off next Monday, you can head over to my blog and grab it to use when you return on Tuesday for your Reading Block or Social Studies Lessons.  

FREE Martin Luther King, Jr. Color For Fun Printable Coloring Pages

If you need something for a little more of a lesson, I have this resource, {MLK} Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing and Social Studies Center too!

Also included in this resource's preview is a free printable for writing about your students' own dreams!

For more ideas, click on the picture below to go to my Martin Luther King, Jr. Teaching Resources and Ideas Pinterest Board.

I would ♥love it if you would like to follow it too!

I'm Fern from Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas, stop by my blog anytime for tips, tricks, resources and freebies for your classroom!

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MLK, Jr. Poetry FREEBIE!

Hey there! It's Nicole from Teaching With Style!

I just LOVE using poetry in the classroom! 

Each year, I make poetry books for my students and we add to them each week.  {Check out this post to see how I make them and a freebie!}  Poetry is an awesome low-pressure way for students to gain familiarity with using academic language.  

The poems that we add to our books always have little blank boxes at the bottom.  So do all the poems I make for my products I sell on TpT.  Why, you ask? It's a GLAD strategy that works so amazingly well for ELL students! When they sketch or write in the box, it helps them process and remember the vocabulary and content.  

Today, I made you a poem freebie about Martin Luther King, Jr.  I used to use this poem with my first grade team when I taught back in Oregon.  Here is our routine for teaching weekly poems:

• Write the poem on chart paper and introduce whole group, on the carpet.  
• First, read the poem in entirety to the students.
• Then, have the students echo you, line-by-line.
• Then, practice reading the poem altogether and in pairs.
• Write the poem on two sets of sentence strips for a pocket chart center.  Cut up one set of the sentence strips word-by-word.  The students practice reading the poem, then they match the words to the full poem in the pocket chart.
• Last, pass out the paper version of the poem.  Have students sketch what they learned and highlight important words in the poem.  Glue the poems in their poetry books.  

Are you ready to try this out? Grab this poem and get started! 

Click either picture above to download from my Google Drive!

Happy reading! :)

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