This lesson engages students in writing lyrics to songs. Students will use free musical software to aid students as they put their lyrics to a tune and tempo.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides 30+ graphic organizers to aid in planning and writing. Students will be able to write informational pieces and literary responses.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The PowerPoint game provides a review of the life and works of Charles Dickens. Students will enjoy playing Connect 4 as they answer questions correctly.

[Free Registration/Login Required] For this assignment, students will write a twelve-line poem using quotations from the first chapter of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Then students will draw a visual representation of the setting...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint contains 16 various writing tasks connected to Louis Sachar's young adult novel, the book Holes. Students will write multi-paragraph essays, diary entries, personal letters, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint lesson contains a series of Wordles that will help test students' knowledge of quotes in Act II of Julius Caesar. Teachers can use this to link Act II of Julius Caesar to its themes and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, students will learn about different types of habitats as they gather information based on provided research questions. Students will summarize the information from their...

A simplified description of video scriptwriting for elementary school kids with a free storyboard program added.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This 20-page word resource discusses the topic of "Slang" for students. Practice exercises and notes are provided. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource features related activities connected to Morris Geitzman's book, Toad Rage. Students will read a fable, nonfiction reading, prose reading, and connected writing activities.

Links to eight different online storytelling websites available for free student use followed by an assessment.

[Free Registration/Login Required] These Several lessons provide learners with an understanding with different types of writing forms: calligram, cinquain, diamante, haiku, and narrative.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains a journal that recounts travel observations of ancient Chinese warrior terracotta statues in Xi'an, China. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes a journal that recounts the author's travels along the Yangtze River in China. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational passage contains a brief history of the Great Wall of China. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a writing warm-up activity for students. Rectangles with key words present direction prompts

Text of the short story "Just Meat" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Lightning-Rod Man" by Herman Melville. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Madness of John Harned" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Man in the Brown Coat" by American author Sherwood Anderson. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Mexican" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Motherhood" by Sherwood Anderson. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

The full text of the short story "Staley Fleming's Hallucination" by Ambrose Bierce. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of describing people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.