Lesson Planet Curated
Cross-Curricular Reading Comprehension Worksheets
This series of cross-curricular resources covers just about every subject, ranging from social studies to geometry to physical science. Each worksheet includes a reading passage and five questions that require learners to apply reading...
Lesson Planet Curated
The Golden Compass: Character Study
Use Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to explore rich character development and symbolism in a way your students will thoroughly enjoy! Find everything you need here in this two-part collection, including worksheets, character mapping,...
Lesson Planet Curated
STEM: Elementary Inquiry
Encourage scholars to investigate and think critically with a collection of 14 STEM lesson plans. The following inquiry-based lessons explore the concepts of life cycles of plants and animals, measurement, magnets, evaporation,...
Lesson Planet Curated
Rockin' English Lessons: Rockin' Grammar
Add some rockin' tunes to your grammar instruction with a collection of videos addressing the grammar needs of first to eighth graders. Each video provides the song's lyrics, so prepare your scholars to sing loud and proud.
Lesson Planet Curated
Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2016
What better way to develop an awareness of the power of presidential campaigns ads than by analyzing them? The resources in this collection ask class members to develop criteria for evaluating effective ads, and to examine the claims,...
Lesson Planet Curated
Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves
Give scholars the opportunity to discover their past with a collection from the Museum of Tolerance that highlights the uniqueness of every family's story. Learners gain insight through interviews, family tress, heirlooms, and oral...
Lesson Planet Curated
Tone Worksheets: Poetry
So much of a poem's tone is determined by the author's word choice as it relates to the poem's meaning. Explore the concept of tone in poetry with a literary analysis unit, which includes an explanatory slideshow presentation and five...
Lesson Planet Curated
James and the Giant Peach Activities
Add some whim and fancy to your daily vocabulary lessons by pairing them with James and the Giant Peach! This trio of lessons has kids using their imaginations to create board games, graph moments of excitement, and infer characters'...
Lesson Planet Curated
Who Needs Pronouns? We do!
A collection of worksheets and videos is a great addition to your unit on parts of speech. Though the worksheets are designed for middle school, they would be applicable to upper elementary levels as well as high school classes in need...
Lesson Planet Curated
Synonyms and Antonyms: Beyond the Thesaurus
Using the same words over and over? Vary your vocabulary and your writing with a collection of lessons, activities, and worksheets focusing on synonyms and antonyms.
Lesson Planet Curated
Comparisons and Contrasts
Paying attention to details is the heart of compare and contrast activities. The resources in this collection are designed to get learners thinking about how objects, ideas, characters, and/or situations are alike and how they are...
Lesson Planet Curated
How Will You Describe Me?
There are many ways to describe people. Their physical appearances, personality traits, and behaviors are a few examples. This also applies to characters in literature, and it is important for our children to be able to identify obvious...
Lesson Planet Curated
Dictionary Skills
Learning how to use a dictionary takes practice. Here, you'll find an anchor chart, activities, worksheets, and creative lesson plans to enhance your scholars' dictionary skills.
Lesson Planet Curated
So Many Similes
Take your simile instruction to the next level with this collection of videos, posters, webpages, presentations, and more. Designed for a range of skill levels and learning styles, the collection has an array of resources that fit the...
Lesson Planet Curated
Poetry is Not a Chryme
A poem: Here's a collection to share your love and affection of poetry. Steer your students in the direction of this collection on poetry. Incorporate this collection on poetry in the classroom, or during April to celebrate National...
Lesson Planet Curated
Parts of Speech Video Series
Give grammar instruction a boost with a collection of videos by E Reading Worksheets; each one is packed with useful information, engaging graphics, sound effects, an interactive pop quiz, and a review to check for understanding.
Lesson Planet Curated
How Do You Organize a Space Party? You Planet! (Reading Comprehension)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the eight planets in our solar system. Use this collection of reading comprehension worksheets to check young astronomers' understanding of reading informational text....
Lesson Planet Curated
Summer Vacation
These activities are lessons used under the theme of Summer. It contains lessons in various subjects.
Lesson Planet Curated
Characterization
In this collection, students learn about direct and indirect characterization through a series of lessons, worksheets, and graphic organizers.Students will also use Waggle Learning Goals' adaptive practice to work at their own pace....
Lesson Planet Curated
Where the Red Fern Grows Worksheet Collection
If your class is reading Where the Red Fern Grows, make sure you have this set of worksheets to help with comprehension, deeper thinking, and literary device application. Whether you print these and hand them out or just use them as...
Lesson Planet Curated
How Do You Compare and Contrast?
How do you compare and contrast? This collection provides you with the tools to meet the many different needs your scholars have to perform successfully. With four worksheets of various compare and contrast tools, two general lesson...