Readers take the main characters in Matilda and individually describe them through a mnemonic. To get there, group members create an acrostic poem describing the character they were given, and choose one of the words from the...

The book Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, is read aloud,and students listen for regular and irregular plurals in the story. They record their words on a worksheet which is embedded in the plan. This lesson provides good practice...

"Once upon a time . . ." Language learners examine the key elements of well-known fairy tales and then craft their own.

Student explore feelings, how to deal with them and how to express feelings. In this feelings lesson, students discuss different ways they feel. Students sing songs about feelings and show actions for each feeling.

Students create new sentences using adverb clauses identified from a book.  In this narrative writing lesson, students write new sentences from some of the dependent clauses used in a book read to them by the teacher.  Students...

Intended for native Spanish speakers, this plan provides an opportunity to create a class semantic web describing the different seasons and listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." Learners will work together to revise their semantic webs,...

Students combine simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.  In this combining sentences lesson, students are given short, choppy sentences and combine them into more mature sentences.  Students...

Is your Kindergarten class about to read the book, Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom? If they are, and you want a few wonderful activity ideas to reinforce phonemic awareness and letter identification skills, look no further. Here you'll find over...

The lessons that come from reading the novel Buddy by Nigel Hinton might be masked by how much you have just enjoyed the story, but don’t let an opportunity for learning pass you by. Let this learning scheme bring clarity to the ideas...

A continuation of the lesson The Teacher is Missing, this plan focuses on refining and remembering a previously recorded class list of rules. Included in this resource are several discussion prompts aimed at getting learners to...

Young readers explore reading comprehension by creating a class presentation. In this storytelling lesson, puils read an assigned text in class and analyze the characters, settings and story. They create an illustrated presentation in...

Sixth graders translate sports vocabulary words from English to Spanish and complete money problems containing decimals. In this money and sports lesson plan, 6th graders use words to communicate to each other.

Students use colorful adjectives when using their response journals responding to the book The Sign of the Beaver. In this adjectives lesson plan, students also correct a paragraph that has 10 incorrect adjective forms.

Students write a short story illustrating the past and imaging the future in transportation. In this transportation lesson plan, students explore artifacts that have to do with transportation in the past in Chicago.

Learners read the story The Very Busy Spider and go on a spider hunt, complete a KWL chart, talk about the animals in the book, and more. In this guided reading lesson plan, young scholars take 5 days to read the book.

Students read the book Billy Brown and The Belly Button Beastie and complete a variety of activities related to the book. In this reading lesson plan, students complete activities including discovering body parts, bubbles, retelling,...

Students read the story A Bad Case of the Stripes and then write their own story conveying a lot of emotion. In this writing lesson plan, students select a title, an emotion, brainstorm, and then start writing.

Fifth graders compare and contract the factors that influence a person's decision to use or not to use tobacco. For this tobacco lesson plan, 5th graders are given candy cigarettes to initiate a conversation on using tobacco. They...

Pupils play an Around the World game in order to read Dolch words. In this Dolch words lesson plan, the teacher holds up a Dolch word card and the first student to say the word moves on. This is played in pairs.

Students say and write simple and compound sentences addressing the clauses that are used. For this sentences lesson plan, students try and speak with simple sentences only to see if they can talk without clauses.

Fifth graders identify short and long term effects of alcohol use. In this effects of alcohol lesson plan, 5th graders participate in activities to understand what it feels like to have alcohol in their system. With the teacher they make...

Students retell a story by filling out a record sheet. In this retelling lesson plan, students fill out a record sheet that gives them prompts about the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Third graders identify healthy methods of self-control. In this health lesson plan, 3rd graders take control of their own actions as they take part in a creative activity in which they learn healthy ways to monitor and control themselves.

Fifth graders read the book Among the Hidden and practice their reading strategies. For this reading strategies lesson plan, 5th graders demonstrate their comprehension by presenting book projects to the class.