Seventh graders examine the internal and external conflicts that Jonas faces in "The Giver" in an essay. Students use SMART Board and Inspiration to organize their ideas graphically before combining them into their paper.

Character development, setting, and plot? Sounds like the makings of a good narrative story. Young authors read and analyze several narrative examples, and then they use what they know to pen an original composition. They work both in...

Read, analyze, and critique a newspaper article about a concert with a Western singer and an Iranian band. Scholars will assess key vocabulary terms within the article, learn how to understand a short news report, and hone in on how the...

What are the pros and cons of prolonging life? Incorporate real-world issues into the study of literature using Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. Through the exploration of pre-determined websites, scholars consider several related...

What kind of food does a monkey eat? If you know, then you'll be able to complete this worksheet. To practice drawing a straight line, learners draw to connect the animal to its food. A total of five lines will be drawn from right to left.

For this words worksheet, students write Dolch words in boxes. The five pages of this worksheet increase in intensity on each page. Page one begins with one to three letter words, and page five contains up to six letter words. Each...

Students demonstrate how to solve various algebraic equations. For this pre-algebra lesson, students work in teams and use Borenson's Hands-On Equations materials to solve algebraic equations.

In this ESL pre-intermediate prepositions worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with the proper preposition. They find the sentences which do not need a preposition and mark it with an "X."

Pupils say the name of pictures of simple objects, people and places, choosing 15 to use for the lesson plan. Students glue pictures in a scrapbook and write the word for each picture beside it. Pupils complete word recognition...

Students examine the different formats book reviews can be presented. As a class, they brainstorm what they already know about writing a book review adding to a concept web. They write their own review using the tips giving to them and...

Students work through the steps of writing a research paper in this lesson. They define their problem and decide what sources of information to use. They read, take notes, and organize the collected data. Finally, they write the...

In this pre-algebra expressions worksheet, 9th graders solve 17 different problems related to various expressions. First, they write each phrase as an algebraic expression. Then, students write each sentence as an algebraic equations.

Fourth graders practice spelling words that have prefixes un-, re-, and pre-. Assign this as homework. To help meet Common Core standards, you could also have learners look up each word in the dictionary and write down definitions.

Eleventh graders prepare for a trip to the Windham Textile and History Museum. In this industrialization lesson, 11th graders discover what it was like to work in the textile mills and then write their own oral history accounts of life...

In this ESL pre-intermediate where people live activity, students form 10 questions about where someone lives, and use the same questions to ask their partner about their home.

In this use of the word "like" worksheet, students write either the question or the answer in 9 examples. They use the correct form of the word "like" in each.

In this ESL use of "must" and "mustn't" in job vocabulary instructional activity, students examine 8 pictures. They write one sentence that tells what one must do and what one mustn't do in that occupation.

In this pre-proofs worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 10 different problems that include various proofs and their definitions. They use the diagram shown and the given information to write the direct conclusion for each case....

In this pre-algebra instructional activity, 8th graders solve 6 problems by rewriting large numbers using scientific notation.

Students identify life situations which require various writing responses, use the power of the written word to obtain results, practice writing responses to real-world events, and demonstrate the skills needed to recognize and create...

Second graders use actual written media to identify and discuss an author's purpose for writing. They identify the author's purpose in a selection from the newspaper, and write a short description of how they came to their conclusion.

Seventh graders experience the satisfaction of writing for a purpose; their self-selected piece be published for an audience. They write using techniques appropriate to the selected genre.

Students effectively revise character descriptions.  In this revising character descriptions lesson, students work with a partner to give and receive constructive criticism to improve their character descriptions. 

In this writing numbers activity, students write the word form of a correct sum to a problem written in words, then use a word bank to complete sentences with a number in word form.