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Alliteration
Use alliteration to describe people, ideas, and places. Young writers will write eight alliterations to describe people, places, or ideas.
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Words That Make Noise
For this onomatopoeia worksheet, students study 9 pictures that depict noises. Students write the word (such as pop, buzz, zip) that describes the noise in each picture.
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Similes
In this writing similes worksheet, students review the purpose and usage of similes and fill in the beginning and ending of comparison sentences with similes. Students complete eight sentences.
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Cultural Logo Design
Students create a logo design to express their own identity. In this logo design lesson plan, students list ten words to describe who they are and choose two of them to use in a logo. Students draw images and choose various forms of...
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About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange Image as Metaphor
Students define metaphor in both art and writing. In this metaphor lesson plan, students examine a photograph by Dorothea Lange and discuss the metaphor that is displayed in the picture. They write about an object that symbolizes a...
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Polar Bear Literacy Activity
Young scholars generate vocabulary words synonymous or related to "noise." In this literacy lesson, students listen to the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? by Bill Martin and Eric Carle and discuss the meaning of vocabulary...
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Chemical Changes in Matter
In this matter and chemical changes worksheet, students write symbols and formulas for 2 chemical reactions. They write words for 1 chemical reaction given in symbols and formulas. They draw a diagram representing a chemical reaction and...
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Animal Diaries
Students read Diary of a Worm by Foreen Cronin. In this journal writing lesson plan, students research an animal and write a diary by their animal. Students apply the research they've completed in their writings. Students share their...
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Plains Indians Pictographs
Students explore methods of written communication. In this Plains Indian lesson, students create pictographs representing everyday modern life after observing the pictographs used by the Plains Indians. Pictograph stories are written on...
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United States Map- Map Legend/City Symbols
Students investigate the United States map. For this map skills geography lesson, students explore city symbols on the map legend and identify them. Students use post-it notes to mark various symbols.
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The Value of a Nation's Currency Goes Beyond its Price
Sixth graders understand the meaning of pictures and words on currency. In this currency lesson, 6th graders examine currency to find cultural relationships with a country. Students locate symbols of the country on the currency. Students...
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Global Music Patterns- Islamic Art
Students compose music using Islamic patterns. In this cultural arts lesson, students examine Islamic art and analyze the patterns. Students incorporate various Islamic patterns into a musical composition.
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What is Government?
Students explore values that unite Americans. In this government lesson, students recall the symbols of America and discuss how to create a "Classroom Constitution." Students form rules and write their own Constitution.
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Add Awesome Alliteration to Your Writing
Students explore alliteration. In this writing lesson, students read the book Thank You for the Thistle and create sentences with alliteration. Students create an alphabet booklet with alliteration.
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Similes
Second graders explore similes. In this figurative language lesson, 2nd graders read the book Quick As A Cricket and choose a simile to illustrate.
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Color Poems
Students describe colors. In this descriptive writing lesson, students brainstorm color descriptions using all of the senses except sight. Students write poems including similes, sensory images, and interesting word choice. Examples are...
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Mood
Students analyze their feelings after reading or listening to music. In this moods lesson, students react to the feelings generated by the story or music they heard. Students pair edit their stories.
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Tabloid Tales
Students write news stories to accompany tabloid headlines. In this tabloid lesson plan, students learn the power of persuasion and exaggeration by writing stories based on actual tabloid headlines.
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Writing with Alliteration
Students read Thank You for the Thistle and understand what alliteration is. In this alliteration lesson, students write sentences using alliteration. Students choose a letter of the alphabet and the class writes an alphabet book of...
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Amazing Animal Alliteration Book
Students understand the meaning of alliteration. For this alliteration lesson, students write sentences using alliteration and recognize how it changes the writing in a story.
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Figurative Language
Students interpret figurative language. In this language lesson, students are read the poem "I Love the Look of Words" by Maya Angelou and are to find examples of hyperbole and personification in the poem. Students then...
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Music Lab
In this music worksheet, students experiment at six stations around the room to explore different concepts related to music using tuning forks, water droppers, glasses, and moving tubes.
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The Adjective Alphabet
Young scholars paint alliteration pictures. In this adjectives lesson, students select an adjective and noun that begin with the same letter, for example: hairy heart, to represent in a painting.
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Quick as a Cricket
Students explore similes through Quick as a Cricket. In this similes instructional activity, students investigate what a simile is and recognize them when they see them. Students write similes about themselves and...
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