Jack Prelutsky
Lesson plans and teaching resources

| Biography and Multiple Sources | | Lesson Ideas |

Biography and Multiple Sources

Brief biography and links to these poems: "As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed," "Be Glad Your Nose is on your Face," "Bleezer's Ice Cream," "Dora Diller," "Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens," "Super Sampson Simpson," and "The Visitor."

In this podcast Prelutsky talks about poetry and sings some poems.

Biography, bibliography, several short video clips, and a transcript.

Lesson Ideas

Designed to accompany If Not for the Cat , this lesson focuses on word choice, voice, and idea development. Students create "riddle" haiku, first about animals, then about other topics. They publish their haiku and let the audience guess the topic of each.

A dozen literacy activities.

Four literacy activities: making a craft turkey, working with "am" and "were," writing, and rhyme. Adobe Reader required for access.

Prelutsky guides students through a 4-step writing process that includes online publishing.

This series of 6 lessons is designed for kindergarten students. It uses Prelutsky's poem, "I do not mind you, Winter Wind" and other literature. This 27-page handout requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access.

This site includes a copy of the poem and a handout for discussion. It also has samples of student writing.