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Reading - Literature:
Reading - Story Elements:
- A Language Arts lesson plan on Theme and on Giving
- A lesson plan on developing a character
- A Language Arts lesson on climax
- A reading and writing activity on the author Gary Soto
- Analyzing and identifying character traits are the focus of this lesson
- This lesson is on character, setting, and plot using the Brave Little Monster
- Here's a creative way for students to comprehend the elements of a short story
- In this lesson, students create a literary elements advance organizer
- This teacher uses How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World to teach second person point of view, geography, and much more
- This lesson answers the question "What is genre?"
- This literary elements lesson uses a "narrator's point of view" and Little Red Riding Hood
- This point of view lesson begins by comparing three versions of The Three Little Pigs
- This is a simple character and scene project idea for the book "Tangerine"
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In this lesson, a costumed teacher introduces a main character and the students fill in the other story elements
- Here students fill one grocery bag with objects representing a "Because of Winn-Dixie" character and one bag with objects that represent themselves
- Students interactively explore word play devices (similes, metaphors, puns, hyperbole, personification, alliteration) and the mystery genre with "The Hamster of the Baskervilles" in this multidisciplinary unit
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Writing - Letters:
Writing - Persuasive:
Writing - Stories / Creative:
Writing - Technical:
Writing - Other:
- A lesson called Party Talk that involves pre-writing and writing
- An idea to create a Story by multiple students (Chain Writing)
- This is a collection of Christmas Journal Ideas
- Here's an idea to encourage Writing Compositions
- This 3 part lesson idea is on Writing Narratives:
- This lesson idea is on Advertising and involves students Writing their own Ads
- Here's a Writing idea for what students do for Christmas (Holidays) and allows for the exploring of different cultures' traditions
- This is an interesting lesson on Essay Writing involving a Beach Umbrella
- Here's a Collaborative Writing Activity that uses a Beach Ball
- Another Kinesthetic Approach lesson, this one for Writing Essay Conclusions
- This idea is on the Revision Triangle - Affirmation, Clarification, and Elaboration
- Writing a Character Description is the subject of this lesson
- In this lesson students use a Timeline to develop Writing Ideas
- Students create a Newspaper on Computers in this lesson on Typing, Writing, and Reporting
- Here's a lesson for Writing Personal Narratives and using Concept Maps
- Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
- Here's a lesson on Writing an Autobiography that involves using Digital Cameras
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- This lesson uses OREOs to teach response writing
- Students use their initials to tell their own biographies in this lesson
- Take a fashion-forward approach to outlining with this engaging lesson
- Here is a Christmas paragraph storybook idea
- The author of this lesson compares the development of a song with the development of a story character
- Here's an idea -- Have student's compare and contrast their St. Patrick's Day traditions
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
- Writing Greeting Card Quotes for fun or profit is a motivating creative writing activity
- This idea starts out as a bulletin board and ends as a memory book compilation of student writing assignments
- This lesson uses quarters to inspire response writing
- This is a great modeling lesson for writing expository intros and conclusions
- Here is an excellent expository writing plan that models body paragraphs
- This personal narrative lesson uses Joey Pigza Loses Control as a model
- In this newspaper lesson, students learn how to use photographs and visual design to convey messages
- In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
- Here are some great New Year's resolution lesson ideas
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- Here students write a report describing the steps to build a snowman
- In this Valentine's idea, students write their own conversation hearts
- The Three Little Pigs teach this personification lesson
- In this lesson, students write a mock television interview from a pet's perspective
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- Here students use word referents to enhance word choice and enrich vocabulary
- In this lesson, students write a comparative essay from the perspective of a food critic
- Here students add a sentence to the character development paragraph in front of them, and then switch chairs
- This lesson teaches self-editing techniques
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of "voice" in books, music and art
- "When I Was Young in the Mountains" by Cynthia Rylant is used here to model descriptive writing
- "Keypals" is a well-developed electronic penpal unit
- This A-Z endangered animal research project requires a triorama of creative writing projects
- Students create a newspaper about their most admired person in these Writing Workshop activities
- This is an idea for a class "Acts of Kindness" show-and-tell collage
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- Students create a topic specific newspaper here using a template
- This is a clever worksheet for using similes to describe characters
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Social Studies Connections:
- A Social Studies lesson involving writing letters to the president
- A Social Studies/Language Arts lesson plan on the news and its themes
- This one is on Native American Legends
- This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
- This lesson is on Black History Month
- An interesting unit on the Colonization of Australia (invasion or settlement?):
- The unit below on Native Americans ties in with another unit on this site - Charlotte's Web and Spiders
- This lesson idea is on School Life and is called "Gremlins go to School"
- Here are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
- This lesson plan is on Pioneer Life
- This lesson plan is on Cesar Chavez and the difference that a single person can make
- Here is a lesson plan on Navajo Pottery and Culture
- This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
- This lesson is called "Who's Who in Florida?" and involves Historical Figures from Florida
- The unit below is on Simple Machines and includes 10 lesson ideas:
- Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
- This lesson on Tribes and Colonists involves a lot of student Research and develops Reading and Writing Skills
- Chief Seattle's Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson
- Here's a great, in-depth lesson plan on the Civil War
- In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- This Native American lesson involves Painting an Event, Story, or Person from Native American History
- Students develop Indian Chief Biographies and presentations in this lesson
- A Native American lesson on Indian Chiefs that uses Venn Diagrams
- In this lesson on Cesar Chavez students make a (paper) Quilt to express their knowledge
- Below you will find Selected Lessons from a Unit on the Civil War:
- This lesson looks at Black History in Western Expansion in America
- Here's a big Economics Unit that is standards-based and titled "Classroom Business"
- Here's a great Community Thematic Unit:
- Here's an idea that will help get students excited about geography
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- In this lesson, students write a researched animal abuse stance paragraph after reading 'Shiloh Season'
- In this lesson, students describe one of America's European explorers in a poem
- This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
- This exceptional interdisciplinary 10-day unit explores the secrets of the Underground Railroad:
- To complete this lesson, students create a diorama depicting a cause or effect of the American Revolution
- As you progress through this 2-week U.S. Constitution Unit, you build a tree with branches and leafy amendments
- Here's an election year idea: students watch and critique televised candidate debates and then hold their own
- If you are looking for multi-disciplinary project ideas for an 1850s Westward Expansion/Oregon Trail unit, click here
- Here students write the story of Anne Frank's life if she had survived
- This Rosa Parks history lesson incorporates reading comprehension as well
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" are compared in this lesson
- This web hunt shows students why and how we celebrate Independence Day
- This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities
- This lesson teaches students the value of getting along with people they do not know
- Here an alphabet book of student-created postcards is made for each state, especially Idaho
- Students write a postcard from the perspective of a Spanish sailor in this lesson about Columbus' first encounter with the Taino Indians
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