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Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 2-3
- Using FQR Think Sheets to Respond to Nonfiction
- Using FQR Think Sheets to Respond to Nonfiction
- Thanksgiving Poetry
- "All Eyes on the Pond"
- Language Arts - Compare and Contrast - Cinderella
- Hunting Whales Lesson #4
- Alaskan Unit Lesson #3
- Alaskan Unit Lesson 2
- The Mouse and the Light
- LuvNotes
- Instructions
- Hot Dog Sentences
- Christmas Card Nouns and Adjectives
- Language Arts - Magic Box
- Putting Character and Setting Together
- Dramatic Reading
- Alaskan Unit lesson #5
- Writing paragraphs from formulas
- Butterfly Unit - References
- Butterfly Unit - What Have We Learned?
- Butterfly Unit - Butterfly Poetry
- Butterfly Unit - Symmetry Lesson
- Butterfly Unit - How to Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - Eat Like a Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycle Sequencing
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit -What Caterpillars Eat
- Listen, Listen for a clue
- Dear ME
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 2-3
- Map Legend vs. Story Legend
- Alaska Unit
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- Terms Baseball
- Cesar Chavez Quilt Stories
- Saving the Rain Forest
- If I had a pot of gold...
- Finish the Story
- Bananabooksplit
- Here children order the steps in the butterfly's "life cycle" and learn the meaning of that word
- Students demonstrate their understanding of cause and effect in this photo story lesson
- Here students learn how to generate an idea list as a prewriting strategy
- This "Ten Important Words" vocabulary building study strategy about Chinese Dynasties and achievements can be used in all subjects
- A hungry monkey get kids miming and moving in this movement story
- Sinbad the Sailor teaching jumping in this movement story from Saudi Arabia
- This ESL recycling lesson integrates English vocabulary, science and environmental consciousness
- This lesson on sequencing and the food chain asks "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?"
- Here is a "Gilligan's Island" creative writing assignment
- This lesson teaches students the value of getting along with people they do not know
- This lesson integrates Phonics with body language, spoken language, and written language
- With the help of a telephone keypad, this idea reinforces spelling while working with addition of multiple numbers
- Here are 2 group activity ideas for Spelling
- All aboard! Click here to travel on the Contraction Train
- Here is a lesson plan on Navajo Pottery and Culture
- A lesson on Comprehension and Inferences that uses a book called "The Snowy Day"
- Conjugate French ER verbs here with the help of Frere Jacques
- In this lesson, students Compare & Contrast "The Mouse Before Christmas" and "The Night Before Christmas"
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- Here's an Idea to get students started in Writing about Themselves
- Grab your big ears, binoculars, and fake poop and come investigate context clues with "The Snoop"
- Here is an idea to teach regular verbs with the "Memory Game"
- Students identify causes of pollution and ways they can prevent it in this bilingual photo story
- In this lesson, students learn prepositions while enjoying obstacle course activities
- This is an Ode to Thanksgiving Poem Song which can be expanded as a writing activity
- This is a collection of Christmas Journal Ideas
- A Language Arts Plan using a Story Pyramid
- This lesson on colonial times helps students find the "most important ideas" in a piece of expository text, not just the main one
- Here's a game idea on Common and Proper Nouns
- Onomatopoeia in creative writing is the subject of this great mini-lesson
- "On the first day of Christmas, my parents gave to me __" involves spelling, ordinal numbers, and memory practice
- This idea starts out as a bulletin board and ends as a memory book compilation of student writing assignments
- This activity involves creating Travel Brochures
- This one can also serve as a closing to the Tall Tales activities
- This reading lesson uses the phonogram method
- Cooperation is necessary to create these sneaky snowmen
- Here is a "Swat Game" for learning vocabulary in various subjects
- This is another compound word Easter Egg Hunt
- Students (Special Ed) write a creative non-fiction story about animals here while presenting facts and new materials
- A fun Spelling activity called "Tic-Tac-Toe Spelling"
- Crayola software is used in making pattern value portraits in this art lesson
- A fun lesson plan on Classification using the Lost Button from "Frog and Toad Are Friends"
- This interchangeable synonyms mini-lesson encourages students to replace cheap words like "good" with expensive "marvelous" adjectives
- This lesson is an introduction to Australia's indigenous culture through poetry
- A Special Education idea for Creating Sentences
- Students Interview each other in this First Day of School idea
- After each student creates a self-descriptive bubble map, the class graphs the popular adjectives in this first day of school idea
- Lesson 2 involves exploring Simple Machines in groups
- Here students read "The Lion and the Mosquito," learn the new vocabulary words, then write their own fairy tale using these new words
- Students use pasta to punctuate character trait quotations in this fun lesson
- Nouns and verbs are taught using an interactive SMART Board in this lesson
- This soft and hard vowels EFL lesson employs the yin/yang symbol
- Student entrepreneurs experience business, calculate profit, and develop an understanding of "economic growth" as settlers in a new community in this multidisciplinary activity
- In "Stop Talking," groups edit a paragraph with stop sign periods and red pen capitals
- Learn about pumpkins here with "The Pumpkin Book"
- "Odes to my (Bilingual) Classroom" is a good end of the year idea
- This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
- A Music lesson on Poetry and Rhythm taught using Music
- A Valentine's lesson idea on Addition and Subtraction
- This dinosaur lesson plan focuses on the Pteranodon
- A lesson using the "Frog And Toad" series that helps with Emotions
- This is an idea to help students with "Speed Reading in History"
- Students create their own "Chica Chica 123" book here about counting by tens
- "Alexander, Used to be Rich Last Sunday" turns reading a book into a money activity
- In this lesson, students use Wiggle Works to learn cause and effect
- Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- A word study strategy is implemented in this spelling lesson
- Here students write about photographs
- In this greeting card idea, students also collect and identify leaves, write a poem and discuss photosynthesis
- This is an -ad, -op, -ish, -ink and -ump Seussical phonogram lesson
- Here's an idea called "Fruit Poetry" focusing on Similies and Metaphors
- A Reading lesson using The Cat in the Hat and the Phonogram method
- This lesson is on words that start with Q
- This Motivating Prereading activity engages students to use Background Knowledge
- Here students summarized the sibling tale of "7 Silly Eaters" and make personal and social connections to the text
- This second part of lesson 4 continues the Matching Activity above
- A lesson on Adjectives taught with Music
- Here's a multidisciplinary plan on the water cycle
- Another Navajo lesson plan, this one involving Weaving Rugs
- This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
- This is a good homophone lesson utilizing several internet resources
- This learning to whistle idea teaches the value of fortitude
- In this lesson, students use Kidspiration and learn the difference between the terms reuse and recycle
- Following this Internet demonstration lesson, students create a state park brochure
- Students write and illustrate sentences about "Earth and the Eight Milky Way Planets" in this astronomy lesson
- This EFL lesson encourages children to critique cultural holidays and festivals
- This Spelling Relay Game could be used in PE and a variety of grade levels
- This is one more reading lesson using a story map (circular story)
- Here is a great game on learning compound words
- This lesson teaches adjectives with music and mystery objects
- This first plan asks the question "What is a Community?"
- Language Arts lesson on Comprehension and Bio Poems
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- Autumn Fun - Children write biographies for their Pumpkin Pal art projects
- This lesson shows that words that sound alike are not always spelled alike
- Learners retell a story in sequential order here with the help of Photo Story 3
- Here's an idea to increase Reading Comprehension through Visualization
- Here's a Vocabulary Building project idea
- Here's one on the old tale of Pecos Bill
- In this fun Christmas activity students Write to the Grinch describing why they love Christmas (to try to change the Grinch's mind)
- Here students use the shuttle run while reviewing for a spelling test
- Another lesson on Comprehension and Recognition of Detail, using "The Very Quiet Cricket"
- This is an idea to teach young students Rhyming Word Families
- This safety lesson uses Kidspiration templates to teach about helpful community members, traffic signals, and how to cross a street
- Here classes compose their own concert songs about frogs or other themes
- A language arts lesson plan on decoding phonograms
- In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts for Christmas and other occasions
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- Click here to play Wheel of Fortune Hangman with song lyrics: TW_NK_E TW_NK_E __TT_E ST_R
- "Change Places" is a robust vocabulary word activity
- This is an excellent lesson on national symbols that are unique to our country
- In "Community Helpers," students draw and write about their future occupation and how they will help the community
- "Fly Swat" is the name of this vocabulary game
- This lesson on insects involves observing a cricket
- Polygon Monsters - create them and write about them!
- Young students learn about "technology" in this lesson and use it to enhance their vocabulary
- In this lesson, students will write about a special memento using the "Self to Text" writing concept
- Here's a Sentence Development Activity idea
- Here's an idea for making Christmas ornaments from dough
- A Writing and Art activity about "When I Grow Up..."
- Here is a relay race idea for learning how to spell the names of holidays
- Here is another arithmetic lesson involving writing and fairy tales
- In this lesson, students will be writing contractions in a poem
- Here students use word referents to enhance word choice and enrich vocabulary
- These Native American "leather" stories make a great Thanksgiving hallway display
- This self-reflection art and writing project showcases students' strength and goals
- This lesson looks at Black History in Western Expansion in America
- This lesson plan has a catchy title - "Nicky Noun and Victor Verb"
- Here are five days of spelling activities proven effective in Special Ed classes
- Alliteration using Adverbs and Adjectives is the subject of this lesson
- A lesson on Rhyme in Poetry using Music
- Children identify animals using camouflage in these activities
- These percussion activities help dyslexic children identify rhythm patterns in written text
- In this Writing activity idea, students Write about a Pictures
- The question "What if Dinosaurs Returned?" is answered in this classroom book lesson
- "When I Was Young in the Mountains" by Cynthia Rylant is used here to model descriptive writing
- The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
- This looks like a fun Vocabulary Game idea and is titled "Hot Seat"
- This portion is on Native American Folk Tales
- This concluding idea helps to wrap things up
- Making this valentine mailbox idea could lead into a letter writing lesson
- Here's a lesson that gets your students to "Jump" into a Story
- Here are some great New Year's resolution lesson ideas
- Turn ideas into a story with this fundraising project
- Here students use visual imagery to write an original color poem illustrated with images, transitions and narration in a photo story
- This game will let kids have fun, while unscrambling vocabulary spelling words
- This big, multidisciplinary lesson called "Night Before Christmas" is on Writing and Much More
- Last is a lesson on Native American Superstitions
- Here students create a web of compliments
- Students research, identify and write sentences about African animals here
- This Charades game idea is on Nouns and Verbs
- Charater Buddies
- A Reading lesson on the story "Sarah, Plain and Tall"
- A lesson on Word Identification for Language Arts
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- This fun idea combines weekly vocabulary words and movement
- Students write a letter to their next teacher in this end-of-year activity
- This is a lesson on contractions usingGreen Eggs and Ham(Sam I'm?)
- Here's a lesson on Jack Be Nimble and Candles
- "Summer in a Can" is a vacation show-and-tell activity
- This point of view lesson begins by comparing three versions ofThe Three Little Pigs
- This musical idea uses popsicle sticks to create a piece and keep the peace
- Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
- This is an idea for teaching analogies
- In this new Chipo's Gift "glyph" activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
- This writing idea for what students do for Christmas (Holidays) allows for the exploring of different cultures' traditions
- This idea uses Parent Teacher Conferences to get students thinking about Adjectives
- This Reading / Predicting lesson uses the textbook "A Soft Pillow for an Armadillo"
- This is an activity idea for "The Big Potato"
- This one covers The Princess and the Golden Shoes
- Use this Tongue Twister template to practice parts of speech
- Instead of "write the spelling words 10 times each", why not try this Jumping Jack Spelling Bee idea?
- This game idea is on Rhyming Words but could be used for other topics like Synonyms
- "Idioms for Dummies" teaches us that when it's raining cats and dogs - we don't have to beware of poodles
- This lesson called "Musical Terms" actually teaches Language Arts Terms
- Here students create a clip art PowerPoint slide presentation on a Revolutionary War personality
- The concepts of general vs. specific are taught in this listening skills game
- In this Thanksgiving lesson, students write a list and visually present what they are thankful for by creating a placemat
- "Peter and the Wolf" introduces orchestra instruments in this lesson
- This is a plan for making a Valentine Person and poem
- Can you guess who is in the Kapok Tree? This descriptive paragraph lesson answers this question
- ESL student's write a letter to a book character in this lesson
- This lesson plan is for Pancake Day / Mardi Gras and involves numerous books about pancakes
- Here antonyms help students learn their spelling words
- This is a reading comprehension lesson for Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
- In this idea students write letters to themselves at the beginning of the year and read them at the end
- "Better Paragraphs Using Math Formulas" is an 8-day paragraph teaching plan for students of all ability levels.
- In this book-based activity, students cut, fold and shape paper into "The Magic Hat"
- This lesson is on the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, uses Goldilocks
- This is a cooperative learning language arts lesson plan on poetry
- Students create paper quilting squares here to give a sick classmate well wishes and something to do
- Comic book stories are rewritten here to include numerical content that is then turned into illustrated word problems for peers to solve
- Levers are the subject of this part of the unit
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- This lesson connects melody, pitch, and rhyming words "Down by the Bay"
- Many creative kinesthetic devices are used here to help students learn the planets and their characteristics
- This lesson involves Martin Luther King Jr. and Faith Ringgold to make a Quilt to Record History
- Here students label the parts of an owl's body with descriptor words
- This very fun idea is called Musical Computers (Chairs)
- Tangrams and fox fairies are the subjects of this intriguing lesson
- In this lesson, a costumed teacher introduces a main character and the students fill in the other story elements
- Students create their ownHarold and the Purple Crayonstyle drawing story here
- Here students identify and map the elements of a story
- This lesson models how to glean information from text to write an informative paper
- This fundraising idea involves publishing student poetry on a calendar
- Here students collaboratively write a "Creative Book" in this filler idea
- This Expressionism lesson is part of a Thanksgiving project-based multidisciplinary learning plan
- The Syllabary/Analogy Method is used here to decode the pronunciation of polysyllabic words
- Dance your way into learning about Earth Day with the book "Earth Dance"
- Here's a lesson on Valentine Cinquain Poems
- Here's a very brief idea for a Vocabulary Game
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- If a goofy female horse is a "Silly Filly," then a wet canine is a ____ _____
- This lesson is on Writing a Story with Storybook Weaver software
- Here's a good game idea called "Power Verb"
- Here students employ inferential thinking while reading "Peter's Chair"
- Use this clever "Vocabulary or Sight Word War" card game to teach the "new words" in any subject
- This lesson on Oil Spills focuses on Writing a Letter to a Senator
- Make a class puzzle
- Here's an idea on using Strategies to Solve Problems
- This Self Esteem Discussion idea uses the book "I Like Me"
- This is an "All About Me" memories and goals book idea
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- In this lesson, students read "Buffaloes Before Breakfast" and learn about compound words
- This lesson is on punctuation marks and their use in oral reading
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
- This Pen Pal letter lesson is on Paragraphs and Grammar
- Here is an alphabet book of student-created postcards made for each state, especially Idaho
- The bookCaps For Saleis used here to explore patterns
- Kinesthetic Learning is used in this lesson to build Reading Comprehension through Kickball
- Here's an idea for establishing academic New Year's reflections and resolves
- This 5-minute interval time-telling lesson utilizes "Clocks and More"
- Children define and identify homophones within a poem here
- This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
- This idea is called Talk Time and is a good 1st Day of School activity to get students talking
- This is a suffix/prefix dice spelling aid idea
- These three activities help students build a "feelings" vocabulary
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- This is an ELL appropriate SMARTboard lesson on using comparatives to describe weather from day to day
- Here is an easy format for teaching how to write good sentences
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- This Chinese New Year lesson encourages appreciation of Chinese culture through celebration
- The book "Rosie's Walk" is used here to teach basic spatial awareness vocabulary to speech and language impaired children
- In this sentence type idea, students make a sentence mobile demonstrating their mastery of their assigned sentence type
- In this idea, students send postcards from Pluto
- Here's a fun game idea called "Vocabulary Steal The Bacon"
- Here's an interesting lesson - a Pre-Read "Tea Party" for Island of the "Blue Dolphins" - Comprehension
- This portion teaches how to create "Showing Sentences"
- This is a low stress spelling game for music and other words
- Here's a game idea called "Spelling Checkers"
- In these two lessons, drama is used to improve language and literacy
- This lesson looks at the U.S. and New Zealand in terms of Location, Transportation, and Apples!
- Here students make postcards to mail to themselves or their teacher over the summer
- First we look back to before there were any "Machines," and look at Simple Machines like Corkscrews and Screwdrivers
- Here's a Reading lesson plan dealing with Setting
- A lesson on Spelling simply entitled Sparkle
- This one, called Class Bank, is to help develop Good Habits, Learner Awareness, and Spelling
- Students compare two specific Christmas-Themed Books in this idea
- This idea involves recording your students' Reading
- This lesson plan uses the story Beluga Passage and focuses on Beluga Whales
- Microsoft Publisher's text box tool is used here to label Halloween tombstones
- Students create Mother's Day Cards with Poems in this lesson idea
- Here students write a story about using their newly acquired animal adaptation
- This one deals with Communities of the Past
- This lesson uses language arts to teach creative movement
- The Emperor and the Kite is the subject of this one
- Here is a Christmas paragraph storybook idea
- Although not a lesson plan, these fun Tongue Twisters can come in handy
- Here's an introduction to computer word processing
- In this well-developed Valentine's Day lesson, kids create Valentine e-cards to send to their parents
- In this Valentine's idea, students write their own conversation hearts
- This one is a Bird Poem Sequencing Activity
- Here's a big Economics Unit that is standards-based and titled "Classroom Business"
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- Groups view and create videos on habitats and their organisms in this lesson
- Spring Into Story Maps
- This is an action verb charades game
- This lesson shows the importance of writing in sequential (first, next, then and last) order
- This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
- In this direction vocabulary lesson, students search for "my lost dog"
- Kids make shapes and letters with their bodies in this lesson
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- "Here Comes the Judge! Here Comes the Judge!" is chanted in this spelling review game in which neatness counts
- Here as a story character, students write about their "Caribbean Dream" using verbs from the story
- Here's a lesson written to reinforce certain Constant S
- This well-developed vocabulary memory game is useful in any subject
- A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Libby Bloom," written by the author
- This web hunt shows students why and how we celebrate Independence Day
- This lesson is on character, setting, and plot using the Brave Little Monster
- In this lesson, students create a brochure about a composer
- Click here to count to ten and say greetings in German
- A Language Arts lesson on Research
- This one is for comparing and contrasting particular stories
- The goal of this portion is to teach about the Bird's Body
- Here is another lesson introducing number sense that uses literature
- This first day of school idea usesMiss Nelson is Missingto teach classroom rules and well as language arts.
- This lesson plan is an Exploration of Volcanoes
- Students will connect a story to their own lives (text to self) and write about it in their response journals in this mini-lesson
- A Mayflower Compact PowerPoint is used here to explain freedom and the necessity of laws and law enforcement in a community
- In this lesson, students "shop" for sentences
- This interesting lesson mixes two topics: The Five Senses and Poetry
- This Writing idea branches off of how the tree got its leaves
- "The Boo Game" is a great way to review vocabulary words in any subject
- Here "The Magic School Bus' takes us through a unit on sound
- Students share family traditions and culture with their class in this activity
- "Basketball Sentences" focuses on basketball skills and sentence structure
- Here Halloween storyboards are assembled and acted out
- Here's a Class Memories Christmas Ornament idea
- Here's a brief Thanksgiving Poem good for ending a Thanksgiving Presentation
- Another Charades game, this one on the Parts of Speech
- This lesson is on Poetry and Teamwork, using a Poem from Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul
- This "Daily Quotes" idea can be used as a filler before class
- This Nerf Ball game is used to review spelling words
- The story elements of ecological cartoons are discussed in these lessons that promote keeping grease and grit out of our sewers
- This sound story for "Danny and the Dinosaur" combines language arts with music
- This "juicy, succulent, interesting, and sensational" Halloween poetry mini-lesson teaches the application of descriptive language in reading and writing
- "Falling for Rapunzel" is a short adapted play or Reader's Theater piece that even rhymes
- This lesson on anger uses the book "When Sophia Gets Angry
- This Spelling-and-Charades Game is a great way to practice vocabulary words
- Students use their initials to tell their own biographies in this lesson
- This one is on Story Maps
- Click here to discover what's inside this W-E-L-C-O-M-E bag idea
- This is a "Charlie Needs a Cloak" guided reading lesson about sequencing
- This great lesson plan is on Reading for Meaning and Vocabulary Skills
- This multidisciplinary Rainbow Fish activity idea is perfect for the first day of school
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- This is an outstanding multidiscipline integrated unit on Patricia Polacco: A Crafty Author <
- This idea is called Dictations Please and is on Listening and Spelling
- "The AND Game" is a good Valentine's language arts activity
- This idea uses the bookCarpenter, Carpenter, What Do You Seeas a career exploration tool
- How to Make Apple Pie in Second Person
- Here's a lesson on the Navajo Indian Culture
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- Students use the strategy of visualization here to better comprehend text
- Swat synonym flies here with this simple vocabulary game
- Here is a great, musical game that also teaches about nouns, adjectives and verbs
- Called "Book Shopping," this idea helps students learn to make Change from a Dollar
- The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to use a newspaper index
- This idea focuses on the "SPREADS" Reading Comprehension Skills
- A fun lesson on The Egyptian Cinderella picture book
- Students learn the parts of a seed and the effects of lack of sunlight on the growth process in this lesson
- In this lesson, students will write a story from the point of view of a turkey near Thanksgiving
- Kidspiration is used here to create concept maps of a book's theme, new vocabulary, and comparison to the related movie
- This lesson involves a Writing Prompt - "If Dinosaurs Came Back..."
- This short idea comparesThe True Story of the Three Little Pigsto the original
- "Onomatopoeia Rita" is an active percussion poem for kinesthetic and auditory learners
- Students add sensory details to selected paragraphs here to create vivid imagery
- Here's one on how to "Explain Yourself in a Story"
- This lesson helps students learn to Spell better by using Memory Cues
- After readingThe Borrowed Hanukkah Latkesby Linda Glaser, why not make some?
- In this lesson, students write color imagery poems based onHailstones and Halibut Bonesby Mary O'Neill.
- This homonym lesson is "A piece of the pie"
- In this Halloween lesson, students write adjective-rich advertisements for haunted houses for sale
- This lesson idea is on Notices and Signs
- Here's an idea -- Have student's compare and contrast their St. Patrick's Day traditions
- Harry Potter - Quidditch
- Students write and deliver Valentine's Day craft demonstration speeches here
- Here's an idea to make a "Sandwich Book"
- Here's a lesson on writing an autobiography that involves using digital cameras
- After comparing the "Magic School Bus in the Rainforest" book to its video, students research and present rainforest animal facts to the class here
- In this sequence comprehension lesson, students make a 6-square story quilt
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- A Writing lesson that makes use of Story Pyramids
- We continue with Wedges in this lesson
- Space adventure stories based on facts are written here
- Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
- This is a common linking verbs song idea
- This lesson teaches a writing process for informative non-fiction research-based papers
- Here is a fun word-wall spelling game
- This part involves Bird Houses and Making a Book
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- These activites are helpful for the story "Mitchell Is Moving"
- This is the rubric for the preceding formula paragraph lesson plan
- This reading comprehension lesson centers on Veteran's Day and the book "Granddad Bud - A Veterans Day Story"
- Comprehension skills are also practiced here by retelling Rylant's "The Relatives Came"
- Here is an end-of-year music class idea: Sing around the Campfire
- Here students write a different type of poem each day, culminating in a PowerPoint presentation
- In this lesson, students use word beads to write funny poetry
- This lesson is on Letter Writing regarding topics related to students' Community
- You'll have bilingual fun with the "The Barking Mouse" in this lesson
- This lesson uses the book "Prince Cinders" to teach Predicting and Comprehension
- Here's a Prereading and Summarizing activity
- Here students use their senses to write Thanksgiving cinquain poems
- This idea involves plastic Easter eggs and compound words - need we say more?
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- This phrase-cued text practice lesson helps students read with proper phrasing, intonation, and expression
- This idea combines making snowmen and rhyming
- This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- "Christmas Around the World" is an original classroom play
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- A fun Spelling lesson called Spelling Battleship
- Here's great Thanksgiving "Textured Turkeys" lesson
- Notes on the Staff merge with Spelling in this neat lesson plan
- A Reading lesson focusing on sight words
- In this project, students research, write, and use media to support a local environmental issue
- This Frog and Toad lesson is on Identifying Blends
- Make creative writing fun using computer generated coloring pages
- The Importance of Voting is the topic of this lesson using "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs"
- This lesson plan is meant to teach students to Increase their Read Speed and Comprehension
- Using the book, "The Magpies' Nest," this lesson teaches how Birds Build Nests and allows students to Build Nests
- This is an "EA" sound Kidspiration lesson
- Here are three food related spelling puzzles
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- Elements of a Story Using "Where The Wild Things Are"
- Here insect literature is read
- This first one is on the classic tale of Johnny Appleseed
- Readers build comprehension skills here by retelling the beginning, middle and end of "Caps For Sale"
- Students will compare the character traits of Henry and Mudge here using Kidspiration and a Venn diagram
- The story elements of "Thunder Cake" are discussed here
- A brief idea for a Talk Show Skit on Alcohol and Tobacco
- "Life in a Pond" is an outstanding web-enhanced lesson on pond ecosystems
- Contractions are the subject of this lesson, and London Bridge and Balloons are used to teach them
- Beanie babies and U.S. cities are the inspirations for this adventure story assignment
- This is an idea to "Stamp Out Spelling"
- This is a tongue twister lesson
- This part is on how to "Explain Yourself in a Paragraph"
- This one is on Figuratve Language
- An interesting lesson idea for Poetry About Chocolate (for Chocolate Week)
- In this sequence of events idea, the transitional words "first, second, and third" are used
- Here is an integrated thematic Solar System Research Lesson Plan
- This is an ecology lesson on the endangered Manatee
- This excellent lesson celebrates Dr. Seuss' birthday
- Writing a Character Description is the subject of this lesson
- Children create "A Book of Many Colors" from magazine pages in this idea
- Here students create illustrated Kidspiration concept maps to define new reading vocabulary words
- "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss inspires this self-portrait art and counting project idea
- This good Creative Writing idea uses "Dream Snow" by Eric Carle
- This lesson called "Book Blurbs" helps students with Reading Comprehension and Identifying Climax
- This lesson on Quilts uses the book "The Patchwork Quilt" by Valerie Flournoy
- A collection of Big Book Activities, dealing with the book What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
- The last plan involves Interviews of Members of a Community
- This Writing Assignment idea involves Writing Sensory Details and is called "Hershey Kiss Paragraph"
- This Social Studies/Language Arts lesson plan is on the news and its themes
- "Taking Care of the Earth" is also a four seasons lesson plan
- A similar lesson, using the book "Princess Smartypants" to teach Evaluation and Appreciation
- A lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
- This lesson on Playing How You Feel is called "Little Mozarts"
- This is a great literature-based lesson on feelings
- This is an interesting idea involving human punctuation marks
- Students studyWhere the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak here and create new monsters
- This English lesson covers Speech, Writing, and Reading
- Cause and Effect are the topic of this lesson that uses "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
- This lesson explores music and color and our feelings about each
- This one focuses on Comprehension and uses the story Big Bird Dont Cry
- This is an idea for creating a funny "Classroom Do's and Don'ts" book
- Here are some ideas for teaching about spiders using "Miss Spider's Tea Party"
- A Spelling game idea called Hoopla
- This reading and writing lesson idea on rainforests involves comparing cultures
- This six pillars of character student publishing project yields a free full-color hardbound class book
- Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
- Adjectives are the focus of this idea using newspaper Movie Reviews
- Students use Words and Pictures as Visual Images to tell Stories in this lesson
- A fun game idea called My Word! - helps to teach Vocabulary
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- A fun activity for creating Sentences out of Candy Hearts (Valentine's day)
- This brief idea on Rocks uses Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and includes a Critique of the book
- This is just a fun game idea that can go along with Math or Spelling
- This is a Christmas idea for Writing Letters to the Three Wise Men
- Did Leonardo Da Vinci's Curiosity and Detailed Drawings Influence Communities Around the World?
- A reading and writing activity on the author Gary Soto
- This is a lesson on number sense and numeration using literature
- Constant Digraphs
- This lesson plan involves emotions in music and srt
- This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills.
- This is a spatial concepts, inferencing and retelling a story lesson for speech/language impaired students
- Increasing Comprehension Skills is the goal of this lesson on Coal Mining and "Danger At The Breaker"
- In this lesson, students construct and read sentences relating to a picture of a juggling clown
- Here students research geographical landmarks after learning about tall tales andThe Bunyans
- Here students make a board game for practicing the recognition of different types of sentences
- A too cool, grade two teacher sent this lesson on "to, two, or too" to us
- This is a multi-disciplinary lesson on "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and sequencing of events
- This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
- This is a well-developed introduction to using context clues
- Students give the gift of their time in this "Giving Tree" idea
- A lesson on Comprehension using the story Yo Yes
- In "Poppin' Corn," students use descriptive language, inventive spelling and their five senses
- Fictional vs. non-fictional dragon diagrams are created here
- Writing Greeting Card Quotes for fun or profit is a motivating creative writing activity
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- Here's a brief idea for playing Spelling Basketball
- Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
- If your kids can't relate to the rules of rounding, try this storytelling idea
- Here's an idea for ABC Freeze Tag that can be used in PE
- Two useful Christmas vocabulary worksheets are found here
- This is a well-developed "Cam Jansen and the Missing Dinosaur Bones" lesson
- "Cowboys at Christmas" is a unique multi-activity lesson teaching us appreciation for the "big gifts" we often take for granted
- This is another beginning / end of the year activity called "Memory Book"
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- This lesson on Venn Diagrams uses the book "A Promise is a Promise"
- This 5-day friendship lesson integrates character education, language arts, math, music and a craft activity
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- This ELL article promotes proficient, independent and imaginative English writers by explicit teaching methods and four research based strategies
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
- Here's a good collection of bulletin board ideas
- Here's a brief idea for Verbs and Adjectives called "My Favorite Things"
- This poem template helps students create poetry to be read by next year's class
- Students love this Earth Day Jeopardy game activity (Special Ed - 3-12)
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- This is a lesson on the book, "Johnny Appleseed," and the man, John Chapman
- This one is on Native American Legends
- Another game idea called "Verb Charades"
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
- This language arts lesson involves multicultural fairy tales
- This Reading lesson is on Predicting, Understanding, and Fluency
- Here's a collection of activities to use with the story "Jamaica Tag Along"
- Here students create and draw onomatopoeia sounds with instruments and "The Listening Walk"
- A great Social Studies lesson plan on Newspaper structure
- This is a fun way to learn to spell
- "Whose Sentence Is It Anyway?" - a lesson on sentence structure
- In this reading comprehension lesson, students make inferences from "artifact bags"
- Here's a very brief idea for Writing a Letter to a character from Little Re Riding Hood
- Here are two fun activities that integrate locomotor movements with reading, and listening skills
- This lesson plan is on Cesar Chavez and the difference that a single person can make
- Here students decorate a special Valentine and tuck a teabag, candy, or chore coupon inside
- In this "All About Butterflies" Kidspiration lesson, students make colorful models and create a life cycle chart
- This idea is on the "Revision Triangle - Affirmation, Clarification, and Elaboration"
- In this lesson, students use letter pieces to make words from letters
- Learners use graphic organizers here to find "The Main Idea"
- This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
- Letter Bears will be alphabetized in this center activity
- Topic is Main Events, title is Little Bunny Follows His Nose
- Here your little stars "twinkle" and tell interesting stories
- An idea for Interviewing the "Mystery Visitor"
- Comic strips and Photo Story 3 are used here to teach story sequencing
- This lesson on Translation of Ideas and Outlining uses the book "Paper Bag Princess"
- Here students share their special "gifts" after reading Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
- "Label Tables" is the name of this interesting Vocabulary Building Activity
- Here students interview an adult at their school
- A Language Arts lesson plan on Theme and on Giving
- Students write a biography about a famous Texan here
- Here's an idea for students to make flags for different countries
- Round Robin is the name of this Spelling Game
- Here students add a sentence to the character development paragraph in front of them, and then switch chairs
- A collection of some fun Christmas Activity ideas
- Here students draw maps of their rooms using the bookMapping Penny's Worldas a model
- This "Little Mouse on the Prairie" story drama teaches compromise and cooperation
- This lesson is on Phonogram Decoding (ing, in, ick)
- This one covers Paul Bunyan
- Here's a fun collection of Mother's Day activity ideas (which may be adapted for Father's Day)
- This lesson deals with Musical Vocabulary Links - Vocabulary from Songs!
- In this listening idea, students write an 8-page story booklet inspired by the mood of eight songs
- This one deals with the Lakota-Sioux Sun Dance
- Here is a lesson on the "sh" sound
- In this "Supermarket Math" lesson, students complete and interpret a KWL chart and food pictograph
- Students grow a "pair of pears" homophone tree here
- This one is called Sketch To Stretch for Language Arts and Art
- "W is for Worm" is the title of this cinquain poem lesson
- Here students create a booklet about their vacation or summer event
- Holes by Louis Sachar: Teacher Pages
- Community - Service Project Rubric
- Community - Service Project - Part 2
- Community - Service Project - Part 3
- Community - Service Project - Part 1
- Community - Community-Building Activities/Energizers
- Community - Teamwork Lesson
- Community - Multiple Intelligence Inventory
- Community - Exploring the Intelligences
- Community - Community in Literature
- Community - Goal Setting
- Community - Celebrating Diversity and Heritage
- Community - Following Directions
- Community - What is Community?
- Community Unit - What Makes a Good Community?
- Community - Following Directions Worksheet
- Past Tense Verbs
- 5 Step Lesson Plan - The Doorbell Rang
- Fill in the blank with Shel Silverstein
- Counting in Espanol
- Carnival of the animals
- Holes by Louis Sachar - Book Information
- Past Tense Verbs
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
