Students use the game of Uno to help them learn their numbers and colors. The cards have letters on them instead of numbers.

Students are given a list of vocabulary words and asked to divide them into positive and negative feelings. They play a game using the vocabulary words.

Students play a card game with color coded words to create sentences that are correctly structured. They listen to a sentence dictated aloud and recreate the sentence using cards. They create sentences for partners to represent with...

Learners role play ordering a pizza focusing on requests and vocabulary including numbers, money and food. They brainstorm food items and create the menu. Using virtual money, they order and fill out a spending worksheet.

Students work in pairs to design a Venn diagram of their likes and dislikes. They use the diagram to generate sentences that include statements of disagreement and agreement.

Students discuss favorite recipes from their home countries and help each other to generate the correct sequencing and grammar for the recipe. They write out the recipe using imperative and passive structures.

Students arrange their chairs into two circles - a smaller inner circle and a larger outer circle. They interview each other using a set of questions commonly found on speaking exams.

Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with more expression. They observe a demonstration of wishing happy birthday with and without expression, and in pairs demonstrate reading with expression using the...

In this solar system review learning exercise, students use dictionaries to define the 10 listed terms pertaining to the Earth, sun, and moon.

Students analyze propaganda techniques using posters, speeches, and other examples of this type of persuasion. They use this information to design their own examples of propaganda. They focus on propaganda techniques used during war.

Students name their favorite actors and actresses, and then use adjectives to describe them. They go through a list of actors and actresses and discuss the adjectives they used to decribe them. As an extension, they can write about a film.

Fifth graders use information from videos, picture books, and relatives' military backgrounds to write a short or extended message of gratitude on a greeting card for local veterans.

Third graders compare boring and vivid words: adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. They list them and come up with 10 vivid words on cards. They shuffle all the cards and use 10 to write "vivid" poetry.

Students create pieces of writing about a creature they have created. They examine the parts of speech and how they are used in their writing to see how they can write more specifically.

Fourth graders compose sentences that use descriptive adjectives to describe a specific food and day that they both like and dislike. They should really enjoy coming up with words that describe their favorite and least favorite foods!

Students use Venn diagrams to represent classifications of shapes and to use counting arguments to find the number of objects in a given set.

Learners use a word bank to help them do their writing and reading. The idea is that they would keep adding to this list as they move from grade to grade.

Students write directions from a starting point to a destination using a map and ads from the Yellow Pages. They define the following terms using total body response or through the use of random objects: "right-hand," "left-hand,"...

Students classify items and numbers on Venn Diagrams using computer applets. They find the similarities and differences in everyday objects.

Students create classified ads for jobs. They discuss careers where their target language can be used and review background information about careers. They prepare want ads to describe preparation for and activities for three different...

Fourth graders apply scientific information about various landforms. They use the information to write and word process acrostic poems which they illustrate with clip art or pictures from magazines.

Students are introduced to spelling words as a whole class by viewing a PowerPoint. They spell the word, repeat and spell the word again as a whole class. Pupils create a sentence orally using the list of words. Students work in small...

Pupils practice the skill of spelling through using creative art integrated with technology. They use technology by using powerpoint slides for each spelling word. Then students work to create posters for spelling words with colors or...

Students sort word card into two categories (common and proper nouns). They copy the class charts. Students create a table in Word including the headings, common noun and proper noun. They put the correct words onto their chart and add a...