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Shizuko’s Daughter: List-Group-Label Strategy

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Help your learners navigate the vocabulary of Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori with a lesson on categorizing words. After coming up with a list of things that grow from the earth, learners decide which categories each words belong in.
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My Antonia: Magic Squares (Vocabulary Strategy)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Help your pupils discover the power of context clues by teaching the this vocabulary strategy. Designed to go with words from Willa Cather's My Antonia, this exercise focuses on having individuals use their own words to define new...
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Square Roots Using a Carpenter's Square

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students calculate the square root of a given number using carpenter's square measurements. In this math activity, students relate this method on the Pythagorean theorem. They answer practice problems after the exploration activity,
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Native American Project in Microsoft Word

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in a lesson that is aimed at helping them advance in word processing skills by using Microsoft Word. The focus of the research is upon a Native American Indian tribe.
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Descriptive writing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice writing with description. In this descriptive lesson, 4th graders see the results of a task when the directions are not clear. They come up with descriptive words and write their own instructions. 
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No Title

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students listen to rhyming words from the story "Peanut Butter and Jam" by Angela Shelf Medearis and create their own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a partner. They match a series of four rhyming words with a key that's provided...
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Welcome to the Neighborhood

For Teachers K - 1st
In this neighborhood worksheet, students write five words from the word families -ake, -ame, and -ate. Students write their answers in the windows of the corresponding word family's house.
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Welcome to the Neighborhood

For Teachers K - 1st
In this neighborhood worksheet, students write five words from the word families -ap, -ash, and -at. Students write their answers in the windows of the corresponding word family's house.
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Welcome to the Neighborhood

For Teachers K - 1st
In this neighborhood worksheet, students write five words from the word families -ar, -ark, and -art. Students write their answers in the windows of the corresponding word family's house.
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Order In the Court!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this alphabetical order worksheet, students alphabetize 12 words that have the "-ice" ending. Some will begin with the same letter.
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Tracing and Printing Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st
In this printing words worksheet, students trace over the letters in each of the 4 lines of a poem. Students then write it themselves in the spaces below the words and illustrate their favorite sentence.
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Varied Word Choice

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how to use a variety of word choices when writing. They discuss how using more descriptive words leads to a more varied word choice, watch a teacher-created PowerPoint presentation, and using a Thesaurus replace...
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Sight Word Matching

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore English by participating in a match game. For this sight word vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Cat's Surprise and identify the sight words which they are unfamiliar with and need to review. Students identify...
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Adjective Word Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students describe fathers using Word Art. For this adjectives lesson, students discuss the attributes of their fathers and then design adjective collages that feature the adjectives that describe good fathers.
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Word Family List

For Teachers K - 1st
In this word family worksheet, students read 17 words that end with "-ake." Words include bake, brake, cake, rake, quake, and wake.
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Alphabetical Order - ub Word Family

For Teachers 3rd
In this alphabetical order worksheet, 3rd graders place 12 words from the -ub word family in ABC order. They write the words on elementary lines at the top of the page.
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"--ain" Endings Word Jigsaw Puzzle

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this "-ain" jigsaw puzzle worksheet, young scholars cut out 16 puzzle pieces that have words and picture clues. Students put the puzzle together and read the "--ain" ending words.
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Altering Text Size, Color, and Font

For Teachers K - 2nd
Take a look at a very simple instructional activity on text size, text colors, and font choices. There is a step-by-step guide directing the young learners on what to do to change these things when working on a computer. Take it even...
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Bridging Communication

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how to create drawings using a word processing program. They examine the use of draw tools in Microsoft Word. They combine drawing with the patterns they made for a truss bridge projects. They follow the teacher's...
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The Unofficial Guide to Middle School

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use Inspiration, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, digital camera, scanners, and video camera
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Power On to Present- What You Know About Where You Went

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write an essay. For this earth's layers lesson, 3rd graders view a power point presentation on layers of the earth and discuss it. They write a short essay on the layers and their characteristics. They use Microsoft Word to...
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Background of Diseases-- Germs or Genes?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the background of common diseases. For this personal health lesson, students research causative agents of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Students use their research findings to create data tables in...
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Who Do You Know?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students research and describe the contributions of African-American men and women. They write their notes in a Microsoft Word document. They present their information to the class.
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Understanding Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students search the Internet to find a poem to research, analyze and present their interpretation of the poem to the class. They develop their interpretation in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

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