Students read a lighthearted story about the controversial Garden Gnome Liberation Front. They debate the public's right to own garden gnomes. Personal - to lighten up the classroom a bit with a somewhat

Students interview each other about their film preferences, and practice using adjectives to describe emotions and -ed and -ing forms.

Students acquaint themselves with little-used library resources/reference materials and create shadow boxes to be displayed in the Media Center based on the research they've done regarding the Winter Olympics.

Learners, in groups, use library reference materials to research an Olympic sport and create a visual display/shadow box to represent it.

Part of a unit on Arizona's biotic communities, this lesson focuses on the vocabulary to be used. Terms include biodiversity, topography, desert, hybridization, niche, and more! Youngsters will define these words from contextual...

Students create a poetry book.  In this poetry lesson, students write a cinquain poem, name poem, haiku, limerick, and preposition poem.  

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is one of the most fascinating pieces of literature from the 20th century, and its rich vocabulary is one of the reasons it has endured for over a century. Help learners of all levels work...

Twenty state related words are all mixed up! Can your Mississippi learners unscramble them? Words like Jackson, cotton, Evis, and mockingbird are included, to name a few! 

Can your young North Carolina natives unscramble these words? Twenty words associated with the state are listed. Some examples include bass, Easley, Polk, and tarheel. 

Students explore the concept of mysteries.  In this mystery genre lesson, students identify the common characteristics of mystery books and use a story map to identify these characteristics in a given book.  Students also...

In this word scramble activity, students use the words in the word bank to unscramble nouns and proper nouns about the state of New Jersey. Students unscramble 20 words.

Students create vocabulary words and a variety of spelling exercises, using the H.I.P Pocket Change website.

Fourth graders come up with a word that ends with the "el" sound for every letter of the alphabet. In this spelling lesson plan, 4th graders use all 26 letters to come up with these words.

Fourth graders develop vocabulary to aid in comprehension as they read the novel, Class President.

Learners, working in groups, make as many words as possible in a given time, using flash cards that contain prefixes, words, and definitions. They chose group roles and participate in a numbers of time rounds of this activities.

Students listen to a story about putting words in alphabetical order so they can decide who should start the Letter Land Parade. They practice alphabetizing letters, and words.

Students complete vocabulary building and verb tense activities before reading an online article. They complete worksheets and an online quiz before writing a story about a hypothetical situation in which they have money stolen.

Fourth graders utilize various reference materials to find specific types of information. In this library research lesson, 4th graders choose the best source of information from the library's reference collection to answer questions.

In this word jumble worksheet, students unscramble the letters to spell words associated with the state of Alaska. Students spell 20 words.

In this Indiana word jumble worksheet, students examine 10 cities listed in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 10 sets of letters to spell the names of 10 Indiana cities.

In this Iowa learning exercise, students unscramble the letters in ten words to spell the names of cities in Iowa. There is a word bank to help.

For this online interactive Kansas worksheet, students examine 20 state-related words in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 20 sets of letters. This worksheet may also be printed for classroom use.

In this Kansas activity, students unscramble the letters in 10 words to spell the names of cities in Kansas. There is a word box to help.