Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Language Arts, Word Choice

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice replacing words in a sentence to make it more interesting. In this word choice lesson plan, 3rd graders listen to the story The Hard-Times Jar by Ethel Smothers and discuss the author's word choice. Students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Choral Speaking: The Frog On The Log

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students recite the poem, The Frog on the Log, paying particular attention to precise diction, pacing, projection, inflection, volume and rhythm.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Connections

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders sing alone, with others and practice a varied repertoire of music. They have to sing using appropriate timbre, diction, and pesture, all while maintaining a steady tempo. Singly expressively, with appropriate dynamics,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Editing Process

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students in upper-level college-bound English classes review the editing process and terms such as, tone, diction, transition, and conclusion. They read and evaluate a sample essay and identify parts they feel they could improve on. ...
Lesson Plan
1
1
Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

Close Reading in the Classroom

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Close reading is key to the analysis and interpretation of literature. A close reading of the title and the epigraph of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” offers readers an opportunity to examine how even single words or names can...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Elegy

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine an elegy for form, tone and subject matter.  In this elegy lesson plan, students share impressions from Dylan Thomas's poem and a critic's response to the poem. Students discuss emotions and the refusal to mourn...
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Cycling

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students participate in a variety of activities related to biking. They follow diction to draw a picture of a bike. They read an article about cycling and role play in a bike shop. They design a poster for a campaign that encourages bike...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad: From Painting to Poem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze Edward Hopper's painting and Hirsch's poem to explore the types of emotion generated by each work. For this literary and art analysis lesson, students discuss how Hopper establishes tone and analyze Hirsch's use of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Pairs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice the trait of word choice and create a narrative writing with appropriate word choices. They work in pairs to write a story using as many word pairs from their imaginations as they can.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Holey Story

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a cloze activity based on an article of a current event. They switch worksheets and the next group chooses the words they feel are missing and justify their word choices.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Painting with Words

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss words that are over used in their writing such as good, nice, happy, glad sad, etc. they complete a survey about word choice then hear a story and discuss descriptive phrases used in the story and how they help to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Paragraph Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write paragraphs. In this paragraph lesson, 3rd graders discover the parts of a paragraph as they are compared to the pieces of a sandwich. They write their own paragraph to a foreign pen-pal describing our country. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Said Is Dead

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students revise writing to improve organization and word choice. They check for logic, order of ideas and precision of vocabulary. Students list different verbs for the word "said." They write dialogue in which the speakers tell a story...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vocabulary: Going To School

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read and analyze 10 sentences with missing words. From the 3 choices of similar words, students insert the best words for the sentence. All pertain to school days.
Worksheet
Curated OER

How Many? How Much? - Countable And Uncountable

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students practice asking questions which begin with "how much" or "how many." Students work in pairs to ask and answer the questions. There are 10 possible responses that students may choose from. This is...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Complete the Sentences 3

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
In this language arts worksheet, learners read and analyze 20 incomplete sentences. Students complete the sentences by choosing one of 4 possible choices provided. This is from the UK.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Proofreading

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, learners read 5 incomplete sentences with four choices of words or phrases. Students select the correct group of words with the proper spelling, capitalization, grammar and punctuation which will complete...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Commonly Confused Words Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar activity, students practice identifying commonly confusing words in two passages and correct the twenty mistakes on the lines provided.
Worksheet
Curated OER

A Few/ Few and A Little/ Little

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts learning exercise, students learn the correct use of a few/ few and a little/ little. Students read the information box about count and non-count nouns and the use of few and little. Then students complete 30...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Necessity and Lack of Necessity

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students learn the use of affirmative sentences with necessity such as "have to" and "has to" and negative sentences with lack of necessity such as "don't have to" and "doesn't have to." Students complete...
Worksheet
Curated OER

That's Not a Noun! Worksheet 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this nouns and verbs activity, students analyze a word bank with 12 words that are commonly used as verbs, but can be nouns. Students read 12 sentences and select the correct word to complete each.
Worksheet
Curated OER

That's Not a Verb!

For Students 5th - 6th
In this nouns and verbs worksheet, students read 12 words in a word bank that are commonly used as nouns but are also verbs. Students choose the correct word to complete 12 sentences.
Worksheet
Curated OER

That's Not a Noun!

For Students 5th - 6th
In this nouns and verbs activity, students fill in the blanks in 12 sentences with a word from the word bank that is commonly used as a verb, but may also be a noun.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Unit 4 (Grammar and Word Choice Quiz)

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a 3 page, 15 question multiple choice quiz on correct word use. Students complete each sentence with the correct word from 4 choices.

Other popular searches