Use Shel Silverstein's poem "Batty" to introduce poetry to young readers. This lesson is not formatted well, but the plan does suggest learners memorize a poem, recite the poem individually, and then recite the poem as a class. Poetry...

Students discover enunciation and alliteration by reading tongue twisters in class.  In this language arts lesson, students listen and repeat some of the classic childhood tongue twisters along with their teacher.  Students...

Students engage in activities to increase their fluency while speaking. They discuss a topic within a minute and work in teams to decide how items are related. They explore fashion and discuss styles for various ages. They select a...

Here's a resource that deserves a place in your curriculum library, whether or not your school has adopted the Common Core. Designed for middle and high school language arts classes, the packet is packed with teaching tips, materials,...

Eleventh graders analyze words that derive meaning from Greek, Roman, and Norse myths. In this myth vocabulary lesson plan, 11th graders work in learning groups as visual learners, kinesthetic learners, and artistic learners to identify...

First graders explore the concept of double letter words. In this word recognition lesson, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to use letter cards to form double letter words.

Put together an English language arts unit on the six traits of writing with this helpful collection of resources. From fun songs to differentiated writing exercises reinforcing each of the traits, great ideas are provided for...

How can you create an "English-free" classroom for your foreign language learners? This year, use some of these strategies to maximize your high schoolers' opportunity to communicate in the language.

Take your class of youngsters on a prehistoric adventure with this four-lesson series on dinosaurs. Accompanying the Meet the Dinosaurs books by Don Lessem, these lessons engage children in writing their own dinosaur books,...

What makes a good New Year's resolution? Practice goal-setting and reading comprehension with a set of language arts activities. English learners work on cloze passages, synonym matches, interviewing exercises, and...

Third graders practice identifying words with the short o vowel sound. They use the strategy will reading a page from The Hare and the Tortoise. They read the passage while focusing on increasing their reading fluency and practice...

First graders develop their reading fluency during the school year. In this language arts lesson, 1st graders discover what skilled readers do when they are reading, such as chunking text or thinking about the meaning of the...

Students improve fluency skills by reading word cards presented to them by the teacher. Through a demonstration by the teacher, they note the difference between fluency and non-fluency. Both as a group and then individually, students...

Learners practice reading different materials to increase their fluency. Individually, they are given a race car and they move their car forward depending how well they have read different excerpts. To end the lesson, they take time...

Students practice reading orally to increase speed and fluency in this lesson. The teacher models fluent reading by reading orally the book "Arthur's Reading Race." The students then work with a partner taking turns reading and...

Second graders improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good decoding strategies, 2nd graders complete an initial read of a story. Working with a partner, they complete a timed assessment of...

Students read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this lesson. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer encouragement and support as they...

Students explore language arts by participating in a word fluency activity. In this irregular word activity, students discuss the sounds that are made from different words as they read them from flash cards. Students shuffle the flash...

Learners communicate more competently in the language they are studying during oral presentation. They translate movies from their language of study to English. They evaluate correct and incorrect pronunciations and conversations.

What is a noun? There are five fill in the blank questions here that require the learner to read the sentence, read the word choices to the right, and select the one that fits best. 

Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...

Second graders read a paragraph containing one missing word per sentence. Using the provided word box, they choose the correct word to complete each sentence.

Learners read a paragraph containing one missing word per sentence. Using the provided word box, they choose the correct word to complete each sentence.

Young scholars read two a two paragraph story that has one missing word in each sentence. They choose words from a word bank to complete each sentence. There are ten sentences to complete.