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There's a World of Science to Read Today!

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students read a current science article. They write a summary of the article, take notes, write and edit a summary, and print their work.
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Whose Voice Do I Hear?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the power of voice in writing by completing a story using words following a particular voice. They take simple nursery rhymes, then attempt to put their own voice to a revised version. An interesting lesson on writing!
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Symbolic Poem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils read and analyze several highly symbolic poems. They create their own symbolic poem, read it to the class, and discuss whether they can guess any hidden meanings.
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Sidewalks to Success in Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a brochure that educates incoming middle school students on how to succeed.
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Out of the Dust (High School)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read Hesse's "Out of the Dust". They respond to questions about the novel and write a free-verse poem modeled after the author's.
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Millennium Santa!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders decide what would make Santa look modern and in style. They write a descriptive paragraph that another student then reads. They try to draw the image conveyed in the writing. They read the paragraphs and match them with the...
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Living Biographies

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a multimedia slide presentation containing facts, graphics, and sounds relating to a biographical figure based on their reading of a biography or an autobiography. They present their slide presentations before the...
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders have fun using descriptive words in an expository format to describe a food that they hate. They utilize a planning worksheet that's imbedded in this plan before they begin their drafts.
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Create Your Island Paradise

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a descriptive essay and map describing their island paradise. They try to evoke the reader's senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting. They revise their paragraphs using their partner's feedback.
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All About Me - A Poem

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders brainstorm unique qualities they possess in a All About Me worksheet. They write free verse poems about things that most people don't know about them. They brainstorm descriptive words to enhance their poems and rewrite them.
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A Short, Short Story

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write a short story using 100 words or less.
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The U.S. Westward Movement

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students, working in groups, research and write about one of the trails that were used during US Westward Movement. They create a travel brochure for their trail keeping in mind the era in which the travel took place.
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Pictographic Poetry of Current Events

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners discuss recent currents events as a class. Using one of the events, they write a poem about how they feel about the event in question. They choose specific symbols that relate to event and write a poem about it as well. They...
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The Sexton and the Compass

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students evaluate how movement patterns create and affect interdependence. They analyze the interactions within and between regions and engage in artistic inquiry, exploration, and discovery in collaboration with others. They design...
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Total English Intermediate: I Do or I Am Doing?

For Students 4th - 8th
In this present simple and present continuous verbs worksheet, students write 4 sentences about their lives using present simple verbs. Students also write 4 sentences about their lives using present continuous verbs.
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Worksheet 3/7 on Verbs

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this recognizing verb usage in sentences worksheet, students read groups of three sentences with the same subject and predicate but different verbs and identify the sentence that uses the verb correctly. Students write 7 answers.
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The Great Alphabet Challenge

For Students 6th - 8th
For this writing sentences activity worksheet, student practice their language skills as they craft groups of sentences in which first letter of each word starts with successive letters of the alphabet. Three examples are provided.
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Wrapping up The Stone Cutter

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars write a paper in which they detail the daily routine of an architect.  In this The Stone Cutter lesson, students discuss the end of the novel and share journals with peers.  Young scholars choose a time period in...
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Adjective Worksheets

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjectives instructional activity, students pick out nouns that adjectives modify, circle nouns, underline adjectives, write sentences, and more. Students complete 6 activities.
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Make a Menu

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice their descriptive writing skills by designing and writing a menu for a fictional restaruant.
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Native American Legends, Folk Stories and Tales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write an Indian tale explaining a natural event, an animal characteristic,
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Gingerbread Baby Language Arts/Grammer #6

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They draw and cut out the characters from the story and create a mobile to hang from their classroom ceiling. They write a sentence using a verb on the back.
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The Language of Shakespeare

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars write and perform a scene using Elizabethan language. They study the language of William Shakespeare.
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Preposition Pizazz

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine examples of poems and identify the prepositions in them. They write original poems using prepositional phrases and create illustrations to go with them.

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