This article outlines a lesson for teaching comparative and superlative adjectives including defining and providing examples for each and a basic lesson plan for teaching them.

A lesson plan for grades 2-4 submitted by a classroom teacher.

Provides biographical information and lesson plans for Cynthia Rylant, with her book "Missing May" highlighted.

Is this your first year teaching? Here are tricks of the trade that are helpful to know. Includes tips on management, discipline, lesson plans for all grades and subjects and more! This is your complete survival guide!

This site features a lesson plan for William Steig's "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble." Come and check out this creative activity.

In this lesson, students are divided into teams to use their vocabulary words in a cooperative story. Each student in the team contributes a sentence with a vocabulary word in it until all the words are included. Teams then share their...

In the opening activity, students are challenged to create a succession plan for their school principal. The class then reviews the official presidential line of succession and reads about its origins.

A instructional activity on producing how to produce video diaries with high production value and content quality.

These are discussion topics to incorporate into your lesson on rights and responsibilities of citizens. Features questions to encourage debates or essay ideas. Also includes lesson plans.

Designed by a teacher, this extensive site covers definition, examples, quizzes and lesson plans for teachers.

With this resource, teachers can lead learners in a topical conversation regarding President's Day. This free-form lesson includes suggested questions and encourages student discussion about the powers and responsibilities of the...

Art lessons for middle school students. They are sorted into categories of grades, lessons that can be adapted, medium used, subject matter, art period, artist, and cross-curricular connections.

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In this lesson plan for grades 3-5, students act out verb and adverb phrases while their teams try to guess the phrases.

This lesson provides class practice learning the defintions for their vocabulary words. Students are divided into two teams, each team is uses a fly swatter to slap the definition or the word whichever is not given.

This is a good site for teachers. Find a review of Jerry Spinelli's "Maniac Magee" as well as lesson plans and activities for the book.

Check out these creative ways to teach students about synonyms and antonyms. Features a great list of ideas for teachers to include in their lesson plans.

Written by Master Teachers, BetterLesson provides lesson plans for all core subjects. This site provides 15 lessons for RL.K.9: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar...

In this short Cyberchase video, students learn about positive and negative numbers as Harry tries to score a total of 50 points in various events to qualify for the Northern Hemisphere games in New Orleans. [3:24]

This site features several links to lesson plans and activities for Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst.

Go directly to the teacher's guide developed to supplement the PBS documentary "Africans in America," which chronicles the history of slavery in the United States. Find lessons, many of which provide links to related primary sources,...

Here, at this site from the Arizona State University, is a simple lesson plan for math or art teachers in the primary grades. Students create their own symmetrical design based on Pennsylvania barn signs. Also has a link to a site with...

Arts Edge at the Kennedy Center provides this lesson plan for teachers of ESOL students that integrates music into language arts. Students create their own poetry while listening to music about bugs and birds.

This critical thinking exercise and checklist is designed for teachers and students. A lesson plan can be developed here that illustrates decision-making skills and a teacher can use examples of common problems that get in the way when...