Should immigrants who illegally reside in the United States be eligible for citizenship? With information about undocumented immigrant population estimates, sanctuary cities, and unaccompanied immigrant children, pupils consider the pros...

Looking for a way to review and practice spelling words that's fun and creative? Use this spelling relay activity for any grade level. Using three spelling lists, ranging in difficulty, teams of young spellers choose words from the lists...

Review one of the most memorable cases in the history of the United States. After reading To Kill A Mockingbird, young scholars read and select court transcripts and other primary source material from the Scottsboro Boys Trial of 1933....

Students explore the topic of underage drinking. They find a focus and write a news feature/analysis that reports on what the community is doing to prevent underage drinking and some assessment of the extent of the problem.

Little ones will love learning this classic nursery rhyme. This resource includes a large, printed version of the rhyme, a page to color, a pre-colored image, and three sets of rhyming words found in the passage. 

Read the descriptive paragraph (included) with your middle schoolers, and have them study the stylistic elements included. They'll look for vivid verbs, alliteration, assonance, similes, and personification. Before writers craft their...

In this writing activity, students think about their favorite things to do after school, choosing ideas from the idea bank or coming up with their own. Students fill out 10 answers to questions, then write paragraphs about this topic.

Learners correct errors in spelling and usage in a quick, six-line proofreading exercise. Makes a nice warm-up and reinforces editing skills. I've seen work like this called Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) practice; the class reviews the...

Pupils proofread a short paragraph about Carl Sandburg. The errors span capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Useful as a warm-up and language conventions review. Go over it together as a class verbally and have individual...

Practice everyday! Have learners correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Sir Isaac Newton. The errors are in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

What do you know about Dwight D. Eisenhower? Learn about President Eisenhower while editing a half-sheet. Learners correct grammatical and spelling mistakes in the short paragraph.

In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The errors range from grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President Abraham Lincoln. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about suffrage. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.

Focus on identifying predicate adjectives in sentences. Use the first sheet to review adjectives and predicate adjectives. Several examples are provided along with brief explanations. Then, move on to the second sheet to put this...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's swing rendition of Robert and Richard Sherman's "I Wanna Be Like You" offers young grammarians an opportunity to examine verb tenses, noun clauses, gerunds, and prepositions.

This instructional activity asks young readers to alphabetize 10 words that begin with the letter 'J' and write the words on the lines provided.

Explore the letter C and the concept of courage with your class. For this religious lesson plan, learners are introduced to the concept of courage through stories from the Bible and then have a variety of multi-disciplinary activities...

Learners read sentences with highlighted words, use context clues, and select the correct meanings of those words from three choices. Sheet contains 10 practice opportunities.

CliffsNotes provides a list of study questions to help your high schoolers grapple with The Worldly Philosophers. Some of them are simple and straight forward, while others offer an opportunity to dig in deeper! Consider printing this...

Lesson 1 from a Refugees and Human Rights unit is based on the UNHCR video “Working with Refugees.” Pupils gain an understanding of the role the United Nations plays in protecting and assisting refugees worldwide and have an opportunity...

How often do Peter and Sally go out dancing at night? How often do my cousin and I get in trouble at school? Help kids with adverbs of frequency with a straightforward grammar worksheet. They use the adverb in parentheses to rewrite the...

This old fashioned handwriting worksheet will help your printing pupils master capital letters Q-X. They examine example letters with numbered arrows, then practice by tracing. Finally, students test their new skills by...

November is National Novel Writing Month, so if your young authors are embarking on this journey, be sure they understand plot elements. This collaborative lesson fits into the context of the larger NaNoWriMo project; however, the ideas...