This article focuses on journal writing including the benefits, goals for parents and teachers, materials needed, journal exercises, and teaching kids how to keep a journal.

Contains plans for lessons that ask learners to write journal entries about texts they have read by responding to open-ended questions. The book "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard Atwater is used as an example. In addition to objectives...

A list of seven writing ideas designed to inspire young scholars to continue writing in Writers Workshop even after they have finished working on a specific piece.

In this Writers Workshop lesson, students look around themselves and think about their daily lives at school to find relevant writing topics.

The children will compare two texts: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton and Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet, about an old house and an animal's home respectively, using a Venn Diagram. They should be guided to address the...

Learn about Newbery award winning author Katherine Applegate's writing career and how she was inspired to write "The One and Only Ivan."

Using the book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud as the primary resource, this unit focuses on comics as a tool for communication. Students participate in activities which include journal and essay writing, a...

Find out what a journal is and how writing in a journal is different than other types of writing.

Artist rendering of a scene depicting a typical camp somewhere along the river in Missouri during the expedition of Lewis and Clark. It shows Sgt. Ordway writing his daily entry into his journal.

In this lesson, writers will create a detailed journal entry from the point of view of a character who never actually existed. The journal entry will be for a day in history that the writer has researched and found interesting...

This lesson plan has learners create an end-of-year reflective pentalogue (five personal beliefs). The list is to be about five different things each student has learned in the past year about what makes good, high-quality writing. A...

In this American literature (1900-2000) creative research paper project, each student creates an original work of American historical fiction using his/her knowledge of the research process. Students identify and address the ways...

Presents Boswell's account of his trip with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.

After solving one system of equations by the methods of graphing, elimination using addition or subtraction, elimination using multiplication, and substitution, students will be given four systems to be solved by one of each of the four...

An excellent instructional activity where students are guided in how to write an article for publication in a scientific journal. Includes downloadable instructional activity and student handout.

This site gives a thorough biography of Defoe. It includes quotes from his writing and information about his most important works.

A global search tool with access to over 13,000 scientific journals including open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries.

The teacher will discuss the importance of trees with the learners. The teacher will provide photographs of various trees that grow in Russell Cave National Monument and the surrounding North Alabama area. The teacher will discuss...

This site has the main point of the story "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963 CE).

Site offers a glimpse of Christmas Celebrations in Colonial Virginia.

Ampersand: the student journal of school & work is a compilation of essays written by students at High Tech High Media Arts in San Diego, California. All students at this school complete an internship with a local organization during...

A lesson where students examine the journal of a young Scottish woman, Janet Schaw, visiting North Carolina in 1775. She writes of her experiences observing the tensions and rivalries in the Cape Fear River area that pitted neighbors...

Students use the process of journaling to make discoveries about the moon. This activity involves having students write observations about the moon in a journal. Using their observations they go to an online resource and choose...

Students will work in small groups to dig holes 1 meter deep. Students will work with measurements as they dig and measure. Students will observe the different types of soil and how the soil changes as they dig. Students will write and...