A list of language arts lesson plans with corresponding books for young students with special needs. Click on the links in the right-hand column to access the complete lesson plan.

This interactive Language Arts skill-building site provides links to interactive activities that focus on finding the main idea of a reading selection. Online lessons, games and quizzes challenges students understanding of main idea.

Discussion of a landscape painting by George Inness will introduce learners to the impact of the railroad on the countryside in mid-nineteenth-century America. They will depict this same scenery as they envision it in the past and in the...

With Vuillard's painting of a park in Paris as a backdrop, learners will explore the social concepts of parks both in this painting and their own life.

Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, learners create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.

Here's a creative lesson for students to examine various haikus, and Japanese culture, then write their own haiku poem, and illustrate it using watercolors! Provides plenty of links to more information, a thorough explanation of the...

Your learners will enjoy making their own rainstick while learning about poetry and expressing their feelings about rain. This three-part lesson plan gives step-by-step instructions, as well as an assessment rubric.

In this lesson, students will develop a definition of jazz. Through biographies and interviews of jazz musicians, students will learn what jazz music is about.

For this interdisciplinary unit addressing science and language arts standards, English Language Learners will learn the life cycle of insects. They will also use the writing of a renowned children's author, Eric Carle, as a model for...

This lesson plan is one of the first in a unit on telling time which addresses the following content areas: language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. Students will read several resource books to gather information....

This lesson will focus on how bills become laws. This interdisciplinary lesson combines social studies, language arts and reading skills and concepts. Students will research the topic through the Internet and other digital resources and...

This language arts lesson uses technology to assess students' understanding of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Each student will use a digital camera to take a picture at school. He will then write a descriptive sentence about the picture...

The Chinese character mark formerly known as "Tan" is the first of two lessons to introduce first grade young scholars to geometry using tangrams. This lesson incorporates history, math, and language arts. For this lesson students will...

Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Learners have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.

In this lesson, students will create a design based on a poem found online and use that design for screenprinting.

What are advertisers really selling? Are there hidden messages in ads? For this lesson, students explore the concept of persuasive advertising and evaluate ads directed at young consumers. A timely lesson that would generate interesting...

An article about the US and Canadian zoos using apps to teach apes is a springboard for this creative activity. Pre-reading questions, the article from Reuters, and follow-up summary in addition to grammar exercises make up a complete...

This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.

At this site students can improve their handwriting skills. It provides printable worksheets, lesson ideas, and interactive activities.

This elementary exploration of interdependence from the American Forum for Global Education touches on language arts, social studies, and science. Students understand the connection between themselves and their natural environment.

Students will really be writing to sources with this lesson. They will write about cause and effects in a multi-flow map and then write sentences to explain the cause and effect relationships in this story.