Students discover how to identify and contact their local Representative. They can send an email or a regular letter to their Representative voicing their concerns. They share with the class any responses.

Investigate different types of documents with your middle schoolers. They look at newspapers, letters, maps, reports, etc. and answer a list of questions provided. Introduce them to different primary sources!

Students complete a unit to learn sayings and phrases that help them understand language art concepts. In this sayings and phrases lesson, students complete 11 lessons that use common sayings and phrases to teach language art concepts...

Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' and the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters, practice writing the letter 'o', and listen to stories, identifying words with the short /o/...

In this consonant sounds activity, students respond to 3 questions that require them to match the pictures to the consonant letters they begin with.

Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the letter sound of o=/o/. They encounter Elkonin Boxes to assist them with their task as well as the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave...

Students identify the letter and phoneme /b/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /b/ sound through riddles and tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a...

For this letter B worksheet, students read a poem about bears on bicycles. Students count the number of words that begin with letter B.

Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...

Students complete word work and pronunciation exercises. They read an online article, complete worksheets and an online quiz.

Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the short /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the short /u/ using letter manipulatives. Students then read the book "Bud...

Students create alphabet people out of pipe cleaners, hole punchers, white paper, crayons, and tape. In this alphabet people lesson plan, students then complete activities with the letter of their alphabet person.

Students create a whole class A-B-"C"eason Book. Each student is responsible for creating a "letter" page relating to changes, adaptations, or other fall concepts. After hard copies of the class ABC books are created, the teachers using...

Students discuss hackers and issues of computer privacy. They read the article "Sniffing Out Crime by Bits and Bytes," and debate the article through role-playing.

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...

Students explore 1960's America. In this American history lesson, students read about and research 1960's political and entertainment figures, social activism, the Civil Rights Movement, and environmentalism as they complete writing and...

In this environmental science worksheet, students identify the different animals that live and visit Chesapeake Bay by completing 6 word scrambles.

Young scholars examine the story for use of balanced sentences and parallelism-two literary devices-and then practice using those devices in writing of their own. They combine the simple sentences grammatically into one correct sentence....

Here is a 114-slide PowerPoint that covers the proper use of articles, singular and plural nouns, and rules of capitalization. Your students should gain valuable practice from working through the examples present in the slides. This is...

Third graders examine and describe a series of primary sources (mostly photographs) to observe and analyze changes over time. The focus is on the local community. The local community might be a city, township, county or surrounding area.

Students participate in a read aloud of the poem, "My Body" then perform several different movement activities such as a finger play, a letter dance, and a body puzzle. They then create a drawing of their body using a prepared outline.

In this online math activity, students find the height of 5 triangles given their area. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching tool!

Seventh graders research historical events and everyday life in Texas in 1836-1837. They write a letter using Mr. Mitchell's perspective.

In this National Handwriting Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking...