When teaching someone how to do something, it's important to give clear directions. Your youngsters can practice their skills by completing these worksheets meant to help learners describe the steps in a process. It's not just any...

Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.

Students discover the difference between a simple and compound subject. They then identify a simple subject and a compound subject. They complete worksheets to check for understanding.

Young readers explore nouns and pronouns. They define what a noun is and highlight the nouns in given sentences. Learners are then introduced to pronouns, and identify them in simple sentences.

Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.

"What did you do yesterday?" Language learners engage in carefully scaffolded activities that review past tense regular verbs, that introduce new vocabulary words, and that permit practice of using the past tense of...

Students create sentences based on the word cards they are given. For this sentences lesson plan, students work in teams and get points for correct sentences.

Students add details to their narratives. In this narrative writing lesson, students look at a simple four sentence narrative and add adjectives and adverbs to make it more descriptive. They do this activity whole class, in partners and...

Practice spelling words that use prefixes, suffixes, and specific roots. For this grammar lesson plan, learners play a game where they compete with spelling words correctly to gain points. A short set of review questions are also...

Students explore U.S. History by reading biographical text in class. In this Benjamin Franklin instructional activity, students read about the famous American's first job and the transition he underwent from printing to politics....

Second graders analyze the steps taken in writing a paragraph in the ten lessons of this unit. Writing for a particular purpose is developed as the conventional grammar skills utilized.

Students explore nouns. In this grammar lesson, students read the book If You Give a Pig a Pancake and identify the nouns in the text. Students classify the nouns under the categories of a person, place, or thing.

Students engage in the writing process and differentiate between what is real versus fantasy. They identify the rhyming words and follow the steps of writing to complete the page for the class book. The prompt is checked looking for...

Students explore common health issues.  In this health and literacy lesson, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations.  Students prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues are the...

Students participate in an opposite-word concentration game. In this grammar lesson, students use an old deck of playing cards and glue small squares of opposite illustrations to the back of each card. Students make as many matches as...

Second graders examine the cover of the book, WHO'S IN THE SHED? and talk about the animals portrayed and the noises they make. They then read the book as a class, looking through the peepholes and making predictions.

This clever lesson plan has your students listen to story about bugs, work together to brainstorm list of "ing" words that describe bugs, create t-chart of words, choose words to place in poem template to create class poem about bugs,...

Young historians explore US culture by investigating the US flag. They will use their textbooks, prior knowledge, and sources provided by the teacher to research the history of the American flag. They will design and create a trading...

Students practice organizing their vocabulary words in an online organizer tool. In this vocabulary lesson, students read a text and take notes. Additionally, students organize their vocabulary words into an online "Alphabet Organizer"...

Students practice word recognition skills. In this dolch sight word lesson, students arrange sight words to create silly sentences that are grammatically correct.

Young scholars practice word recognition skills. In this dolch sight word activity, students arrange sight words to the appropriate picture or phrase cards that match.

What is a sentence? Second graders will explore the components of a sentence in the ten lessons of this unit. The subject, predicate, the process of proofreading, punctuation, and sentence sequence are analyzed in this unit. Handouts and...

The vowel/consonant/vowel combination of /i_e/ is one of the most common in our language. In this lesson, kindergarterners share the book, The Doctor's Line to gain practice in reading these kind of words. A brainstorm session...

Pupils read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.