Children will create a picture dictionary to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition and fine-motor and creative-thinking skills, and increase their awareness about informational text.

This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.

This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.

This is a lesson plan for teaching storytelling and/or fables to first graders including listening, reading, activity learned (moral), and follow up ideas.

This lesson focuses on teaching compound words and is specifically designed for second grade; however, it could be adjusted for other grades.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which young scholars learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and...

Students will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...

After discussing the picture book Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, learners brainstorm the meaning of teacher-selected words. Once the students have a clear understanding of the words, they create a...