Second graders read classic fables, consider their meaning and then re-write them using a prompt if necessary. This lesson plan presents many classic fables that students can read, and re-write, using their powers of imagination.

Learners access a variety of sight word related resources on the Internet. They play concentration, read online books, play sight word bingo, and view various sight word lists and illustrations.

Students locate various basic sight words in an article or a story. They read the word list/worksheet, and independently locate and circle each word from the list on the article.

Students review sight recognition and blending by using an index card with one of the words from the word wall on it. They read a story aloud as a class and hold up their card when they hear their word and sing a song that allows them to...

First graders practice listening skills. They listen to a story and discuss the chronological events in the book. Students identify sight words. They write all sight words and discuss them in class.

First graders work in an individual tutoring atmosphere. First the student reads books with the teacher. The student sorts words found in the books using phonetic similarities. Finally, the student writes sentences summarizing the book.

In this literacy worksheet, 3rd graders read sight words in rows that give the challenge of 41 words. They are given a raw score to determine the reading level.

In this short a worksheet, 1st graders read a story using the high frequency words come, here, is, an, are, and some as well as words with the short a sound. Students create a student made book of the story and the pictures that accompany.

Students participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall lesson, students...

In this sight words worksheet, students look at the pictures and say the words shown in the pictures. Students write the words by tracing the letters in each blank.

In this Hawaiian language worksheet, young scholars look at the pictures and say the words shown in English first and then in Hawaiian. Students write the Hawaiian words by tracing the letters in each box.

Students practice sight words using the Dolch vocabulary lists.  In this sight word lesson, students are engaged in a whole class game that allows every student to practice reading Dolch words off index cards.  Students then...

Students practice reading Dolch words using an apple theme.  In this sight word lesson, students play an apple picking game that allows them to practice reading several Dolch words.  Students play this game frequently to ensure...

First graders identify sight words. In this learning sight words activity, 1st graders view flash cards to practice the words and identify them in a poem. 

Students explore language arts by completing a vocabulary activity. In this sight words instructional activity, students discuss the commonly used words that are seen often in writing and define 10 new words each week. Students utilize...

First graders are introduced to Dolch words. In this reading improvement instructional activity, 1st graders use Dolch words to review beginning and ending sounds, consonant blends and sight words.

Students practice stop, drop and roll. In this fire safety instructional activity, students learn to stop when the music stops, drop when the music stops, and then roll when the music stops. That can be translated to stop, drop, and...

Young scholars list some issues important during the campaign of 1840. They compare and contrast the careers of Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison before they became president and explain why the Whigs wanted to find a candidate...

Your class can build strong, well-represented opinions about the music they hear. They listen to, and share thoughts about, a piece of classical music. Then they write a piece of music or a poem, and analyze their peers' work and their...

Students use critical thinking and discussion to solve a problempresented in a hypothetical dilemma.

Everyone needs to know what to expect when going through puberty. Intended for a special education class, this well developed and developmentaly appropriate resource provides a full days instruction on teaching teens with special needs...

Was the House Un-American Activities Committee justified in investigating subversive influences in the entertainment industry? Part two of the three-part series of lessons that examine the anti-communism movement after World War II,...

An online Sim City type game from the BBC website guides students to complete a World Food Programme mission. They investigate the causes and of hunger in different parts of the world and then research a particular region's hunger...

Here's a five-star lesson plan in which inquisitors conduct sophisticated experimentation with cellular respiration in plant seeds. Placing seeds in a closed system they measure the amount carbon dioxide produced and relate it to...