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Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 4-5
- Using FQR Think Sheets to Respond to Nonfiction
- Using FQR Think Sheets to Respond to Nonfiction
- Thanksgiving Poetry
- Point of View
- Bee-Loved Words
- The Mouse and the Light
- Instructions
- Putting Character and Setting Together
- Dramatic Reading
- Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory Book
- Water Cycle
- "How To Build A Snowman" Writing
- Natural Disasters - Assesssment
- Natural Disasters - Learning Activities
- Natural Disasters - Year 5 and 6 unit
- Word Lists - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Worksheets - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Invasion - Stage 3 Unit Early White Settlement
- Solar System Unit
- Civil War Unit - Appendix D - Always Stand on the Union Side, Union Dixie songs
- Civil War Unit - Appendix C - Star Spangled Banner, Battle Cry of Freedom songs
- Hurricanes
- Dear ME
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 4-5
- Civil War Unit - Unit Test Key
- Civil War Unit - Unit Test
- Civil War Unit - Lesson E: Songs of the South
- Civil War Unit - Lesson D: Songs of the North
- Civil War Unit - Lesson C: Patriotic Songs
- Civil War Unit - Lesson B: Underground Railroad
- Civil War Unit - Appendix E - The Bonnie Blue Flag, Dixie's Land songs
- Civil War Unit - Appendix B - On An Underground Railroad, Follow The Drinking Gourd songs
- Social Studies - Black History Month
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- Terms Baseball
- Cesar Chavez Quilt Stories
- Folktales Around the World
- Creative Drama and Improvisation
- Aims Sure Count
- Kinetic Parts of Speech
- helping verb song
- Bananabooksplit
- A Thousand Paper Cranes
- Ecosystem Diamante Poetry
- "The Cheap Crazy Doctor" is an acting dialog for ESL/EFL students to practice and act out
- Students learn how to create the drop cap on the first letter of a paragraph here while reflecting on New Year's resolutions and goals
- This is a Typing activity called "Finish The Sentence"
- In this lesson, "Miss Alaineus" teaches inferencing and summarizing reading comprehension strategies
- 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 teaches social studies vocabulary words through antonyms
- This Squeezy Ball Father's Day idea teaches gerunds and reduces stress
- A Writer's Workshop lesson on Legends
- Here's a section on the Real Greenhouse Effect
- Here are 2 group activity ideas for Spelling
- Here is a lesson plan on Navajo Pottery and Culture
- A Language Arts lesson on climax
- Students generate an Inspiration concept map on how body systems are connected in this well-developed "Magic School Bus" lesson
- Students work in groups to create an adjective picture poster in this lesson
- A Language Arts lesson on rain forests
- Conjugate French ER verbs here with the help of Frere Jacques
- Conflict Resolution: Mediate, Don't Instigate
- In this lesson, students Compare & Contrast "The Mouse Before Christmas" and "The Night Before Christmas"
- Here students write the story of Anne Frank's life if she had survived
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- Map Rubric
- Day 8: Route to Freedom:Mapping North Carolina's UGR routes
- Grab your big ears, binoculars, and fake poop and come investigate context clues with "The Snoop"
- This Thanksgiving acrostic idea lets students practice their writing and MS Word skills year-round
- In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
- Here middle school special education students write a color metaphor poem using adjectives
- This is an Ode to Thanksgiving Poem Song which can be expanded as a writing activity
- This is a collection of Christmas Journal Ideas
- 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 one can also serve as a closing to the Tall Tales activities
- In this lesson, students learn about Columbus Day from two perspectives
- 9-3 includes Writing a Letter to the President
- Here is a "Swat Game" for learning vocabulary in various subjects
- In part 9-5, students will create a basic Web Page
- A fun Spelling activity called "Tic-Tac-Toe Spelling"
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- Crayola software is used in making pattern value portraits in this art lesson
- 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
- Part six works on the difference between Orbit and Rotation and distance from the Sun
- Students use pasta to punctuate character trait quotations in this fun lesson
- Unit Materials and Resources
- This soft and hard vowels EFL lesson employs the yin/yang symbol
- "Odes to my (Bilingual) Classroom" is a good end of the year idea
- This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
- This lesson uses quarters to inspire response writing
- Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
- A word study strategy is implemented in this spelling lesson
- UGR Unit Rubrics
- Here's an idea called "Fruit Poetry" focusing on Similies and Metaphors
- This is a brief lesson idea for Typing and Spelling
- Teach students about the interviewing process using this great lesson
- This second part of lesson 4 continues the Matching Activity above
- Here's a multidisciplinary plan on the water cycle
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- Another Navajo lesson plan, this one involving Weaving Rugs
- A Creative Writing lesson using The Mysteries of Harris Burdick book
- This multi-sensory approach to spelling words is effective for ADHD and dyslexic students
- This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
- This is a good homophone lesson utilizing several internet resources
- Botany is used in this idea for teaching descriptive writing
- 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 lesson answers the question "What is genre?"
- This lesson teaches that successful paragraphs contain variety and proper punctuation
- This lesson plan is on Pioneer Life
- Here's a teacher's guide to using foreign language songs in the classroom (La Bamba)
- Here is a great game on learning compound words
- This lesson teaches adjectives with music and mystery objects
- Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
- 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
- Here's a Teaching Guide for the book "The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel," written by the book's author
- Here's an idea to increase Reading Comprehension through Visualization
- Here's a Vocabulary Building project idea
- Analyzing and identifying character traits are the focus of this lesson
- 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)
- Reading and Writing Workshop With Student Round-Robin Participation
- Here students use the shuttle run while reviewing for a spelling test
- This is an interesting lesson on Essay Writing involving a Beach Umbrella
- Here classes compose their own concert songs about frogs or other themes
- This literary elements lesson uses a "narrator's point of view" and Little Red Riding Hood
- A language arts lesson plan on decoding phonograms
- This is a weather vocabulary lesson developed for ELD students
- In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts for Christmas and other occasions
- Click here to play Wheel of Fortune Hangman with song lyrics: TW_NK_E TW_NK_E __TT_E ST_R
- This lesson teaches self-editing techniques
- This first one involves an introduction to the Solar System
- Favorite Parts in Charolotte's Web
- Students write their own Native American myth in this lesson
- Polygon Monsters - create them and write about them!
- Here's a Sentence Development Activity idea
- Here is a relay race idea for learning how to spell the names of holidays
- 9-2 will create a Short Play
- Part 9-4 involves Assessing the Mars Colony Ideas
- Use this fun activity to review parts of speech before a test
- 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
- "The Big 4 Clusters of Commonly Confused Words" makes a great first lesson for a Developmental English classes
- These Native American "leather" stories make a great Thanksgiving hallway display
- This lesson uses OREOs to teach response writing
- 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"
- Wilbur's First Day
- Alliteration using Adverbs and Adjectives is the subject of this lesson
- A multidisciplinary lesson on Music Around the World
- This Social Studies lesson involving writing letters to the president
- Lesson Plan 3 - Virtual Exploration of Lascaux Cave
- Interviewing Arachnologists
- These percussion activities help dyslexic children identify rhythm patterns in written text
- "When I Was Young in the Mountains" by Cynthia Rylant is used here to model descriptive writing
- A Math lesson involving on measurement and comparing using literature
- The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
- This lesson is so fat... it contains four comedic hyperbole worksheets
- 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
- Title: Reading About the Rain Forests
- A lesson plan on developing a character
- This lesson plan is on Abstract Nouns (as well as other Nouns)
- Here's a lesson that gets your students to "Jump" into a Story
- This Native American lesson uses "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"
- Day 3: Hear the Whistle Blow! -Musical Messages of Freedom
- 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 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
- This Charades game idea is on Nouns and Verbs
- This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities
- A Reading lesson on the story "Sarah, Plain and Tall"
- This fun idea combines weekly vocabulary words and movement
- Students write a letter to their next teacher in this end-of-year activity
- Here's an idea to get students Writing Christmas Stories with Partners
- This lesson is on the Interaction between Living and Nonliving things in an Ecosystem
- Students create a newspaper on computers in this lesson on Typing, Writing, and Reporting
- "Summer in a Can" is a vacation show-and-tell activity
- This is a clever worksheet for using similes to describe characters
- This point of view lesson begins by comparing three versions ofThe Three Little Pigs
- Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
- Students create a "tableau vivant" Photo Story 3 presentation of a short story here
- Here students create a graphic organizer of a tall tale they were told and one they would like to tell
- 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 one covers The Princess and the Golden Shoes
- Use this Tongue Twister template to practice parts of speech
- This is a foreign language exercise in asking and telling age
- Instead of "write the spelling words 10 times each", why not try this Jumping Jack Spelling Bee idea?
- Day 10: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom - Continued
- This game idea is on Rhyming Words but could be used for other topics like Synonyms
- To complete this lesson, students create a diorama depicting a cause or effect of the American Revolution
- "Idioms for Dummies" teaches us that when it's raining cats and dogs - we don't have to beware of poodles
- This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
- 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
- Word Play Fun... Not Your Ordinary Literary Masterpiece!
- In this Thanksgiving lesson, students write a list and visually present what they are thankful for by creating a placemat
- 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
- 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.
- Acting Out
- Here are more clusters of commonly confused words
- Unit Comprehensive Assessment
- Here's an idea that will help get students excited about geography
- Predicting with Charlotte's Web
- Here is an UGLY gift thank you letter assignment
- Students examine simple machines and predict their use here
- 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 Writing lesson is on Building Suspense with Sensory Details
- This great International Pen Pal idea helps students combat terrorism in a significant way
- 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's a lesson for writing personal narratives and using concept maps
- This lesson models how to glean information from text to write an informative paper
- Lesson Plan 1 - Mapping Walls
- This fundraising idea involves publishing student poetry on a calendar
- Here students collaboratively write a "Creative Book" in this filler idea
- The Syllabary/Analogy Method is used here to decode the pronunciation of polysyllabic words
- Timeline for Implementation of Lessons
- Here's a lesson on Valentine Cinquain Poems
- Here's a very brief idea for a Vocabulary Game
- UGR Unit Bibliography And Webliography
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- This personal narrative lesson usesJoey Pigza Loses Controlas a model
- If a goofy female horse is a "Silly Filly," then a wet canine is a ____ _____
- Here's a good game idea called "Power Verb"
- Use this clever "Vocabulary or Sight Word War" card game to teach the "new words" in any subject
- Make a class puzzle
- Here's an idea on using Strategies to Solve Problems
- This is an "All About Me" memories and goals book idea
- 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 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
- 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"
- This lesson idea is on School Life and is called "Gremlins Go To School"
- This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
- Students use free digital scrapbook technology in this project to create alliterative phrase wall hangings
- This idea is called Talk Time and is a good 1st Day of School activity to get students talking
- This is an idea for a class "Acts of Kindness" show-and-tell collage
- Spider Haiku Poems
- This game idea is for Building up Vocabulary
- In this lesson, students write a researched animal abuse stance paragraph after reading 'Shiloh Season'
- Narrative Rationale
- Students write a 5-paragraph story here about their first memorable experience
- This is a suffix/prefix dice spelling aid idea
- In this lesson students use a timeline to develop writing ideas
- Here is an art history lesson on Byzantine art and architecture
- This is a great modeling lesson for writing expository intros and conclusions
- Unit introduction, timeline, essential questions, objectives, national standards, adaptations
- These three activities help students build a "feelings" vocabulary
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- Just a brief idea for a complex lesson on Romeo and Juliet
- In this idea, students play TV reporters and interview their "Favorite Composer"
- 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
- In this lesson, students write movie reviews from a pet's perspective
- This is a lesson about endangered animals and "Rare Beasts" by Charles Ogden
- An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
- Here's an interesting idea for Creating Skits on Spelling or Vocabulary Words
- 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
- Diary Writing Rubric
- Here's a game idea called "Spelling Checkers"
- In these two lessons, drama is used to improve language and literacy
- 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
- Another Kinesthetic Approach lesson, this one for Writing Essay Conclusions
- This is an introductory unit on persuasive writing
- Here's a spelling game idea that's similar to the TV show "Survivor"
- A lesson on Spelling simply entitled Sparkle
- Here students describe one of America's European explorers in a poem and then decorate it
- "Kids Just Want To Have Fun" with this synonym lesson
- A fun activity idea for learning Compound Nouns
- 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
- Students find out how to say "Thank you" in other languages in this internet search idea
- 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
- The Emperor and the Kite is the subject of this one
- Here is a Christmas paragraph storybook idea
- This portion is on Differentiating Between Needs And Wants Through Research
- Although not a lesson plan, these fun Tongue Twisters can come in handy
- This idea for word usage involves the use of an internet site
- The object of this lesson is to write and illustrate a children's book about a younger sibling or cousin and then give them the book
- In this Valentine's idea, students write their own conversation hearts
- This is a game idea for using an index
- A brief idea to use as a Halloween Writing Prompt
- Cooperative Group Work Rubric
- Here's a big Economics Unit that is standards-based and titled "Classroom Business"
- In this lesson, students write a comparative essay from the perspective of a food critic
- This lesson teaches the Parts of Speech by using Computers
- In this lesson, students write a two paragraph opinion letter in response to "Yoshi's (ecological) Dilemma"
- Here are ideas for learning lists of Important Words
- This lesson invites students to step up to writing descriptive/specific paragraphs
- This lesson on capitalization in direct quotes features instructional strategies for multiple intelligences
- Here is a "Mighty Mike - Brilliant Brianna - Talented Tamika" name learning game with adjectives idea
- Part 9-1 involves Writing a Letter to NASA
- Vanquish weak verbs like "went" with the "Vivid Verb Word Bank" lesson(but don't try to say it 3 times)
- This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
- In this direction vocabulary lesson, students search for "my lost dog"
- The second lesson is intended to Develop Teamwork Skills
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Here as a story character, students write about their "Caribbean Dream" using verbs from the story
- Here's an election year idea: students watch televised candidate debates and then hold their own
- 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
- Roald Dahl books are utilized here to show how to create the hook in an opening sentence
- This lesson plan is an Exploration of Volcanoes
- The "Linking Verb Macarena" is a fun mnemonic device idea
- Students develop Indian Chief Biographies and Presentations in this lesson
- In this lesson, students "shop" for sentences
- "The Boo Game" is a great way to review vocabulary words in any subject
- Here students write letters to be read by next year's class
- Coretta Scott King Award-Winner books are introduced to children in this literature lesson
- This Multidisciplinary lesson deals with the Esimation of a Pumpkin's Weight as it is carved
- Here Halloween storyboards are assembled and acted out
- Lesson Plan 4 - Breaking Down Walls
- This lesson on adjectives can be adapted to all ages
- This is a lesson activity on cause and effect
- 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
- The story elements of ecological cartoons are discussed in these lessons that promote keeping grease and grit out of our sewers
- This is an idea for reviewing prepositions
- This lesson is on Hurricanes, particularly in Florida
- "Falling for Rapunzel" is a short adapted play or Reader's Theater piece that even rhymes
- A Language Arts lesson on creating a Rain Forest
- 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
- Table of Contents
- This lesson builds familiarity with reference sources by researching night creatures (good for Halloween)
- This great lesson plan is on Reading for Meaning and Vocabulary Skills
- Students create their own symphony story using characters from "Peter and the Wolf" here
- A lesson called Party Talk that involves pre-writing and writing
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- This idea is called Dictations Please and is on Listening and Spelling
- "The AND Game" is a good Valentine's language arts activity
- How to Make Apple Pie in Second Person
- Here's a lesson on the Navajo Indian Culture
- This is a Poetry lesson that focuses on the differences between Prose and Poetry
- Swat synonym flies here with this simple vocabulary game
- Curriculum Web of Activities
- Here is a great, musical game that also teaches about nouns, adjectives and verbs
- The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to use a newspaper index
- This idea focuses on the "SPREADS" Reading Comprehension Skills
- This non-objective art lesson shows how history influences art and how art illustrates nouns
- Day 6: Underground Research
- In this lesson, students will write a story from the point of view of a turkey near Thanksgiving
- This lesson on Tribes and Colonists involves a lot of student Research and develops Reading and Writing Skills
- "Onomatopoeia Rita" is an active percussion poem for kinesthetic and auditory learners
- 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?
- Lesson 10 involves Interviewing Skills to determine who should be the first to go to Mars
- This is a brief Reading and Writing idea on Commercials
- Here's a great, in-depth lesson plan on the Civil War
- This lesson uses fortune cookies to motivate students to "find the verb" or other parts of speech
- In this lesson, students write color imagery poems based onHailstones and Halibut Bonesby Mary O'Neill.
- In this lesson, students learn how to be a biographer
- "Christmas Shopping at Harrods" is a problem-solving lesson involving monetary conversions
- Here is a lesson that involves identifying complete subjects and predicates
- In this Halloween lesson, students write adjective-rich advertisements for haunted houses for sale
- Here's an idea -- Have student's compare and contrast their St. Patrick's Day traditions
- Harry Potter - Quidditch
- Students learn about and create constellations and their myths in this dual subject lesson
- Students write and deliver Valentine's Day craft demonstration speeches here
- Here's a lesson on writing an autobiography that involves using digital cameras
- In this lesson, students write and illustrate a desert animal short story, similar in style toMama, Do You Love Me?
- In this sequence comprehension lesson, students make a 6-square story quilt
- We continue with Wedges in this lesson
- Here's a great lesson on Tracking Hurricanes
- The Keeping Quilt story is used in this idea called Quilts of Many Colors
- This lesson uses a kinesthetic approach to persuasive writing
- Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
- This one is called "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
- This is a common linking verbs song idea
- This lesson teaches a writing process for informative non-fiction research-based papers
- A great end / beginning of the year lesson involving Writing Letters to next year's students at the end of the year
- This lesson is on Expanding Sentences and Paragraphs for Details
- Here is a fun word-wall spelling game
- These "Me" collages are great for getting to know classmates
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- Chief Seattle's Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson
- Here is a lesson on sensible sentences
- 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"
- Here is an end-of-year music class idea: Sing around the Campfire
- The author of this lesson compares the development of a song with the development of a story character
- This idea will have your students listening carefully to the musical "words" of Miles Davis
- Day 5: Tracking the Quilting Codes - Continued
- Here students write a different type of poem each day, culminating in a PowerPoint presentation
- In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
- 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 capitalization lesson for proper nouns and adjectives also features instructional strategies for multiple intelligences
- Here's a lesson plan for Creating Posters with Microsoft Word that works on Formatting and Grammar
- Here's a collaborative writing activity that uses a beach ball
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- As you progress through this 2-week U.S. Constitution Unit, you build a tree with branches and leafy amendments
- In the last lesson, students will use their Interviewing Skill with guest speakers
- In this lesson, students create a literary elements advance organizer
- Students Compare and Contrast the Characters from "Mufaro's Daughters" in this short lesson
- This lesson idea is on Advertising and involves students Writing their own Ads
- A fun Spelling lesson called Spelling Battleship
- Here's great Thanksgiving "Textured Turkeys" lesson
- Lesson 8 helps to decide what it would take to "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before"
- Day 2: Conductors of Freedom:The Role of Abolitionists and Quakers in the UGR Movement
- This Language Arts lesson is called Flower Power
- Notes on the Staff merge with Spelling in this neat lesson plan
- Students work collaboratively here to create ecosystem concept maps using Kidspiration software
- In this project, students research, write, and use media to support a local environmental issue
- This lesson plan is meant to teach students to Increase their Read Speed and Comprehension
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- An interesting sculpture lesson on silence - expressing without words
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- This is an excellent 12-day lesson on conducting research for expository papers
- This diorama project combines reading, writing, speech, and art
- Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
- An idea to create a Story by multiple students (Chain Writing)
- If you are looking for project ideas for an 1850s Westward Expansion/Oregon Trail unit, click here
- Here are discussion questions for "The Well" by Mildred Taylor
- This first one is on the classic tale of Johnny Appleseed
- Oral language practice can be achieved with "Silly Story Starters" in this lesson
- Here students write editorials on protagonist's decisions
- A brief idea for a Talk Show Skit on Alcohol and Tobacco
- Beanie babies and U.S. cities are the inspirations for this adventure story assignment
- This is an idea to "Stamp Out Spelling"
- Here's a lesson on patterns in music
- This part is on how to "Explain Yourself in a Paragraph"
- A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Summer Song," written by the author
- Presentation Rubric
- Day 7: Underground Research - Continued
- This is a musical instrument writing prompt idea
- Here's an idea to encourage writing compositions
- An interesting lesson idea for Poetry About Chocolate (for Chocolate Week)
- A Native American lesson on Indian Chiefs that uses Venn Diagrams
- Hamburger Paragraph
- Writing a Character Description is the subject of this lesson
- This is a good idea for writing poetry using the first lines of existing poems
- This is an excellent multidisciplinary rock and mineral unit
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" are compared in this lesson
- 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 is a brief idea for teaching Prepositions with song
- In this lesson, students write a mock television interview from a pet's perspective
- Students write a postcard from the perspective of a Spanish sailor in this lesson about Columbus' first encounter with the Taino Indians
- 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 lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
- Here students tell a story about themselves using photographs and Photo Story 3
- This lesson on Playing How You Feel is called "Little Mozarts"
- This is a great literature-based lesson on feelings
- A lesson on Metaphors and Metaphorical Vocabulary Definitions
- This is an interesting idea involving human punctuation marks
- Here students write a report describing the steps to build a snowman
- This novel lesson cleverly combines literary and personal character development concepts
- Researching Spiders
- Spaghetti Webs
- Here's a new ice breaker idea - have groups perform a commercial for a new use for an old object
- This A-Z endangered animal research project requires a triorama of creative writing projects
- 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
- Here's a "super" idea - have students create and write about their own "super-hero"
- In this newspaper lesson, students learn how to use photographs and visual design to convey messages
- Students create animated stories using PowerPoint in this lesson idea
- A fun activity for creating Sentences out of Candy Hearts (Valentine's day)
- This classmate interview template is an interactive language arts activity and an ice-breaker
- This is a top-down approach for teaching irregular plural nouns to EFL students
- This is a simple character and scene project idea for the book "Tangerine"
- This inspiring lesson is based on the poetry of a 13-year-old muscular dystrophy victim
- In this lesson, students write a story that involves adding and subtracting money
- This is a Christmas idea for Writing Letters to the Three Wise Men
- A reading and writing activity on the author Gary Soto
- Here is an excellent expository writing plan that models body paragraphs
- Here is a good method for teaching comprehension skills
- This lesson is called "Who's Who in Florida?" and involves Historical Figures from Florida
- Part four is on Planets, Soil, and Nutrients
- Here is [a, an] article lesson
- Your students will start passing secret poem notes after solving these clever "Rhyme Scheme Riddle" poems
- Here the process of elimination method for solving multiple choice and vocabulary questions is introduced
- This lesson plan involves emotions in music and srt
- Balloon Journey
- Project Rubric
- Writing poetry is fun when you are adding couplets to Shel Silverstein's "Sick"
- This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills.
- A fun Common and Proper Noun Activity Idea
- Increasing Comprehension Skills is the goal of this lesson on Coal Mining and "Danger At The Breaker"
- Students create a topic specific newspaper here using a template
- This one is on Casey At The Bat
- Here students research geographical landmarks after learning about tall tales andThe Bunyans
- This is a well-developed introduction to using context clues
- This multidisciplinary lesson has students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
- A Music lesson integrating Art and Language Arts involving Contrast
- This lesson on prepositional phrases is called "Preposition Boogie"
- Writing Greeting Card Quotes for fun or profit is a motivating creative writing activity
- 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
- This lesson provides a little tic-tac-toe fun with adjectives
- This is an "All About the Teacher" bilingual poster idea
- This is another beginning / end of the year activity called "Memory Book"
- This Christmas writing assignment focuses on quotation marks and nouns
- 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 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 creative way for students to comprehend the elements of a short story
- Students will write Haiku Poetry and Create a Picture for their State in this lesson
- Here's a brief idea for Verbs and Adjectives called "My Favorite Things"
- This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
- 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)
- Day 9: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom
- This one is on Native American Legends
- 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
- Culminating Activity-Field Trip
- Witching You a Happy Halloween
- Here students study multimedia persuasion techniques and use them to create Photo Story 3 advertisements
- Quoting Characters
- A great Social Studies lesson plan on Newspaper structure
- This Native American lesson involves Painting an Event, Story, or Person from Native American History
- Here's a brief idea for writing Dates in French and back (the different date formats)
- This is a fun way to learn to spell
- "Whose Sentence Is It Anyway?" - a lesson on sentence structure
- This adjective lesson uses a semantics map
- In this reading comprehension lesson, students make inferences from "artifact bags"
- Here students write a letter about their "immigrant experience" after virtually exploring the Ellis Island immigration station
- This lesson plan is on Cesar Chavez and the difference that a single person can make
- This idea is on the "Revision Triangle - Affirmation, Clarification, and Elaboration"
- Day 4: Tracking the Quilting Codes
- Take a fashion-forward approach to outlining with this engaging lesson
- A fun group activity for learning about your classmates
- This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
- Pourquoi Tales
- A lesson plan on Quotations
- Comic strips and Photo Story 3 are used here to teach story sequencing
- Here students share their special "gifts" after reading Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
- A Language Arts lesson plan on Theme and on Giving
- This is a dialogue writing lesson
- 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
- This lesson idea combines adverbs of frequency (always, sometimes, rarely, or never) with interviewing
- This Rosa Parks history lesson incorporates reading comprehension as well
- This one covers Paul Bunyan
- A very thorough lesson on creating an Alphabet Book and Research
- A Language Arts lesson on precipitation in rain forests
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- 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 are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
- The Three Little Pigsteach this personification lesson
- Day 1: Derailment of Human Rights:A Life of Slavery
- Students grow a "pair of pears" homophone tree here
- This one is called Sketch To Stretch for Language Arts and Art
- Lesson Plan 2 - Building the Biggest Walls
- 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
- Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
- Past Tense Verbs
- Fill in the blank with Shel Silverstein
- Counting in Espanol
- Self-Report Affective Assessment Rubric
- Matching with Synonyms and Antonyms
- Fun with Quotations
- Carnival of the animals
- Civil War Unit: Lesson A... Harriet Tubman
- Holes by Louis Sachar - Book Information
- Civil War Unit - Unit Outline
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
