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Communicating with My World
Students create a time capsule. In this oral presentation and history preservation instructional activity, students provide feedback for their time capsule project, work with a partner to write an oral presentation, and present their...
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Grooming Activity
Learners discover the essential items to properly groom for a nice event. In this cleaning habits lesson, students discuss and identify important cleaning items such as a brush, shower gel, cologne, etc. Learners create a...
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About Discussions
Students exchange opinions, express feelings, and listen to presentations of others about an argument. In this discussion lesson plan, students learn how to listen and respond for an argument they intend to have.
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Leadership: Communicating With Your Peers
Students explore communication by using non-verbal cues. In this body language lesson, students utilize blindfolds to communicate with classmates through words only, then use only physical actions to communicate and compare the two....
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Irregular Word Fluency, Tic Tac Toe
Learners play a tic-tac-toe game to practice reading irregular words. In this tic-tac-toe activity, students read words to a partner. If they are correctly read, learners mark the tic-tac-toe board.
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My Pile, Your Pile
Students study words. In this fluency building instructional activity, students play a one on one game in which they read irregular words presented to them. They work with their teacher to keep as many irregular word cards as he or she...
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Sounding out accuracy, Tic Tac Toe
Students practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy lesson, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Students then sound out the word from the pile of...
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PASSWORD VOCABULARY REVIEW
Students write definitions for vocabulary words used in a unit in any subject area. They use the words to play a game.
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Animals in the Wild
Students compare/contrast paintings with similar subjects and themes. They discuss how a painting may relate to life experiences. Students draw animal families and compose a story about a painting by Gerome. They discuss zoos and...
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The Fish Say Shhh
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through tongue twisters and riddles. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a...
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Here Kitty, Kitty
Learners recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Comparisons And You
Students examine the structure and language of sentences that are used for making comparisons. They drill through a series of sentences for a model and practice. Then students write sentences that make comparisons after brainstorming ...
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Paragraph Matching
Students complete an activity sheet. In this paragraphs lesson, students discuss the essential parts of a paragraph. Students practice thinking of body sentences to support a topic sentence. Students complete an activity sheet where they...
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The Letter Ww
Students explore letter Ww. In this letter recognition instructional activity, students participate in country, state, food, literature, physical education, colors, careers, music, and game activities that are linked to the main...
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Proofreading Relay
Sixth graders play a proofreading relay game. For this proofreading lesson, 6th graders are broken up into two teams. Each team has an incorrect sentence and they need to fix it one at time by checking for mistakes in grammar,...
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Vocabulary Stumpers
Learners participate in a weekly game in small groups to increase their vocabulary and vocabulary interest.
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Japanese Tanka
Students compare and contrast the two forms of poetry. They are concerned with practicing the styles of both in order to reproduce their own creative work. Research is done to look for the backgrounds of both styles and how they emerged.
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Scrabble Laps
Students access that the purpose of this activity is to integrate physical fitness with spelling of core vocabulary words used in science and social studies. Students play the Scrabble Lap Game.
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Lupita Ma¿¿ana
Learners join Lupita and her brother Salvador, as they go on a journey to the United States in hopes of having a better life for their family. On their journey, they are doing activities that help them earn points. The goal is to earn...
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Sorting
Students practice sorting books. In this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, students sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...
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Colonial America
Students discover the history of Colonial America by creating a class presentation. In this U.S. History lesson, students utilize the Internet to research one of 20 topics in which they will create a PowerPoint or other type of...
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The Letter Cc
Students explore letter Cc. In this letter recognition lesson, students participate in country, state, food, literature, physical education, colors, careers, music, and game activities that are linked to the main lesson page. Students...
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Mythology - What Is It?
Learners explore Greek mythology. In this mythology instructional activity, students discuss and define mythology. Learners view pictures and associate them with the correct Greek myth. Students answer trivia questions about their...
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Phrasal Verbs with Get
Students identify ten phrasal verbs with "get". In this phrasal verbs lesson, students read and analyze a conversation between two people. Students interpret the meaning of the phrases in the diaglogue. Games and additional activities...