PBS TeacherSource provides lesson plans and activities for all grade levels in the subject area of reading and language arts.

This site from A to Z Teacher Stuff presents a lesson plan through a thoughtful story of a young fifth grader. Plan covers many themes such as bullying and family life. Also, lesson plan helps children express their thoughts through...

This fourteen lesson unit investigates reading and English language arts at a fifth grade level. The lessons display differences and similarities of cultures. The unit incorporates 21st century learning skills such as communication,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows for many discussions of Lucky Child by Luong Ung. Students will read this novel that describes a sister's arrival in America as a Cambodian refugee. Another sister is left behind....

Contains teacher posted instructional activity ideas for "It Looked Like Spilt Milk." These were posted on a chatboard, so they are a little hard to follow in places.

Explore the literature connections, online activity, pencil and paper activity, and the manipulative investigation of patterns and geometric shapes on this page!

Analyzing a book takes the form of creating their own when young scholars complete this activity. The stated goal is to help students "Read like writers." Includes link to a template for student use.

In this lesson, students read blogs written by students their own age and learn to shape a well-thought-out response that addresses and answers the questions posed in the blog. Then, after reading, discussing, and deciding what makes a...

This site provides links to elementary information about Fairy Tales. You will find lesson plans, poems, songs, activities and more when you delve into these resources. Some links are no longer available.

Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.

This PBS site contains two lesson plans. In grades K-2, read books written/illustrated by Maurice Sendak, find out what elementary school was like for Mr. Sendak, and write a class book based on one of his stories. In grades 6-8, learn...

Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...