Activate your pupils' thinking before reading chapter five of Ordinary People. Learners decide whether they agree or disagree with six statements and discuss their ideas in small groups. They then read chapter five and determine...

Do reporters write about what they see, or what they think? Examine the differences between investigative writing and opinion writing with a lesson plan from PBS. Learners look over different examples of each kind of reporting, and...

Work on replacing the object of a sentence with object pronouns. A handy grammar worksheet prompts language arts learners to read 20 sentences and choose the correct pronoun to fill in the blank from the word box above.

Explore the behavior of light waves with a lab activity. Scholars build new vocabulary through experimentation and observation. Using different mediums, they model reflection, refraction, transmission, diffusion, and scattering of light.

In this proofreading activity, students read a paragraph about the great builders of ancient civilizations. Students answer 10 multiple choice grammar and vocabulary questions about the text.

Students explore the concepts of rhythm, movement, contrast and texture. They practice using new vocabulary and work on creating a college after designing the arrangement. They self-evaluate their collage and critique their classmates...

In this everyday editing instructional activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Alexander Graham Bell. The 10 errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

For this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization. The errors occur in a paragraph about the children's book Eloise.

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

Students examine the problems created by a lack of effective authority described in Mark Twain's Roughing It. They explain how we use authority to protect our rights, to provide order and security, and to manage conflict.

Introduce your Latin class to meter and the metrical pattern of an elegiac couplet. Have your learners practice identifying the syllables open to resolution in the two exercises provided. Answers are not included, but there is a helpful...

Students examine the cultural importance of America's rivers. Using the Mississippi and Hudson Rivers, they examine a story that takes place on each river. They are introduced to the concepts of preservation and stewardship.

Designed to build proofreading skills in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and language usage, as well as proofreading for clarity, transition, and order, this workbook is packed with activities for all kinds of writing.

Do you have a political agenda? Some authors do. Scholars analyze a piece of work and determine how the author deals with a political or social issue. Responding to two other essay questions, writers create essays exploring how authors...

"Don't go forth today." Why would Caesar's wife not persuade him to stay home? Scholars read an excerpt from the play Julius Caesar and write essays on why Caesar listened to Decius rather than his wife. Pupils then write two more essays...

It is not about where you are going, but the journey to get there. Scholars choose a play or novel in which a character takes a journey. They then create essays describing what the journey meant to the overall piece of work. Learners...

Scholars review the previous nine lessons of analysis of King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and use their work to create a formal essay responding to a writing prompt about the purpose of the work. This mid-unit assessment is a quick...

Students use the text "The Great Chase" to explore characters, views, and using words and phrases from the text. They write character profiles that describe the characters in the story. Students use key words and phrases from the story.

Learners examine work by Mark Twain in the context of pre- and post-Civil War America. In this cross curricular lesson, students gather biographical information about Twain, use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast him with...

Students experience the strategies of decoding words and crosschecking to master reading more fluently. They read, crosscheck and decode the books, "Lee and the Team," from Phonics Readers and "Ready to Race," by Shealy Melton.

Fourth graders pretend they are going on a trip to Mars as they close their eyes and visualize the journey. They discuss what they saw on the journey to determine how one student may visualize something different than another. Next, they...

Fifth graders examine line, bar and circle graphs in the newspaper and on the Internet. They complete sketches of graphs with an emphasis on selecting the best model to depict the data collected.

In this ESL activity worksheet, students consider cultural differences as they read a paragraph and find its text in the word maze.

Students observe their own daily rhythms by going to bed earlier and seeing what happens to their day afterwards. For this sleep lesson plan, students experiment with their own sleep cycles and answer questions about what happened...